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Welcome back to the "prime time." i will set aside my argument this should have been congress's decision from the beginning. let's talk about the process. if we accept the president's reckoning. which i don't. i don't believe that the discussion of casualties only came up at the last second. if we accept it, he didn't think about to ask about what the human cost would be until the last second. surprising. >> i think it's actually much worse than that. on military commanders understand proportionality. they won't recommend a plan to kill 150 iranians over a drone. they recommend a plan to take ...

Now, without data connection or connection to a cell tower your gps chip in your phone is not going to be as functional as it would be on the ground. >> okay. and the radar, the fact that radar is not as effective, i mean, it's because if you're going to be out over a vast body of water, right, you need the towers on which to bounce off signals. right? >> that's right. you can't put a radar tower in the middle of the ocean which makes it really hard to pick up a plane when it's flying both low or over a vast body of water. and, you know, what typically happens in that situation is that air-tra...

Question, but it's on a lot of people's minds i know because people have been asking me about it all day long. people are asking, you can find a cell phone. you can track down a cell phone through satellites these days. would it be possible to do that on any of the passengers' cell phones to somehow get a gps location from any of the passengers' cell phones if they're out there? >> no. what's wrong with that you're not getting the signals from the satellite. the cell phone's getting the signals from towers. in this case the towers can be equated to a radar tower as well. and you need multiple ...

Controllers were caught sleeping on the job. the top official has now lost his job and the government is launching a top to bottom review. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, the kind of behavior we will not tolerate at the faa, we will not tolerate in control towers, safety is always our number one priority. >> air traffic controllers tell the associated press it is not uncommon for overnight workers to nap on the job and one whistle-blower says there's a cot in the radar tower. >> that esnot good. could we get a cot out here? we get here awfully ...

To reassure travelers after several air traffic controllers were caught sleeping on the job. the top official has lost his job. the government is launching a top to bottom review. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, it eat kind of behavior that we will not tolerate at the faa. we will not tolerate in control towers. safety is always our number one priority. >> air traffic controllers tell the associated press that it's not uncommon for overnight workers to nap on the job. in fact one whistle blower says there's even a cot in a radar tower and inter...