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morning following a major computer outage at the faa. john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today s confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don t know if hackers were to blame. sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it s scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we ll get to it. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. hectic morning for a lot of travelers. sandra smith in new york. john: some were out on the tarmac and the flight was called back. i m john roberts in washington, what we will be watching for, including the first response from 1600 pennsylvania to those classified documents that turned up at president biden s former office. we ll dip into the briefing for any news. sandra: we ll watch for that. b ....
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thank you, sir. sandra: there was your transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, referencing this as a data point from which we can learn in washington, he s at the department of transportation, i m told. he said we are going to own it, we are going to find what caused it, we are going to fix it. which indicates they do not have the root cause of this. he said his top priority is to understand the root cause of this outage. liz, you mentioned how he called it a glitch this morning. this is a nationwide outtag. he downplayed it as a computer glitch this morning and six hours later still does not know what caused the outage that shook the nation. so what s happening is we have apparently a transportation secretary who seems to have lost focus. he s being treated as very unserious. you look at the transportation budget and the faa budget, it has lines in it about social justice and the like, and what is more injustice than a family member who needs to fly home as fast as they can ....
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Karl, the sequestration, you fly a lot, i fly a lot. a lot of people across the country fly a lot. what s going to happen? well, this is not because of the sequestration cuts. let s look at the numbers. the faa budget is about $12.75 billion. they have to cut roughly just under 5%, around $600 million as a result of the sequestration. now what they have decide today do is to do it by taking ten percent of the workforce of the faa, air-traffic controller, and furloughing them but they have alternatives. they on their own authority could take two percent of their budget for consultants. they have, you know, $500 million, half a billion dollars in consultants. they could take 2% of that off the top without asking congress for any approval. they have $325 million for supplies and travel. they could take 2% of that and cut it and apply it, reprogram it to cover the air-traffic ....