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Report: Senator Ted Cruz got $35 million for billionaire fracking donors in last COVID-19 relief aid FacebookTwitterEmail Featured image: Senator Ted CruzStefani Reynolds / Bloomberg Just as President Donald Trump criticizes "pork" in the current COVID-19 relief package, The Wall Street Journal reports that Senator Ted Cruz helped tweak the aid program to get $35 million for Texas billionaire fracking brothers in the last COVID-19 relief package. The brothers, Dan and Farris Wilks have been prominent, longtime contributors of Ted Cruz. Increase payments to the people, get rid of the “pork�...

Chances of getting this pushed through a legislative body? >> i think the backers of this in congress feel better this they have a president pushing for it. this is the proposal that's been around a couple years but this is a big shove that was not happening in the past administration. they also have secretary of defense saying they can find a way to work with this, too. >> great to talk to you. thanks very much. ted mann from the "wall street journal." we'll be back for the top of the hour headlines. that's next. i never joined in. that wasn't fair to any of us. i was covered. i tried lots of...

>> shepard: president trump says the nation's air traffic control system is out of date and expensive. he's right. it's costing the economy billion as year in delays. this morning at the white house, he rolled out a plan to privatize the work of air traffic controllers. >> it will reduce cost and increase convenience for every american consumer. these new efficiencies will produce a huge economic boost for the country and for the one in 14 american jobs that aviation supports. >> u.s. airlines have supported privatization for years. critics are questioning what it would mean for passengers and...

>> reporter: now when he's say looking at the human factor they're also trying to establish a time line about the engineer, brandon bastion more importantly, the time line employment records, raps what he was doing in the past 24 hours. he's already handed over his cell phone he's given a blood stamp and an initial interview. the ntsb says they have not yet had a chance to speak to him. they plan on speaking to him today or tomorrow as well as conducting several other interviews. in terms of examining the machine component, they have already recovered the data recorder, downloading some of the...

>> and sadly too late for the victims of this accident. ted mann thanks so much. you look at the "daily news," map and you just -- that says it all right there. somebody saying there is no way in the world he would have gone 106 miles an hour in the turn. i don't know if he was asleep or what was going on. but turned over his cell phone and also again toxicology reports. >> they're waiting i think 124 hours to talk to him. very traumatized. all right. let's go back to politics. mark halperin, we were talking over the past 30 minutes about jeb bush and the problems with jeb bush. and you we...