bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. we have seen an uptick in serious close calls that we must address. transportation secretary pete buttigieg kicked off today s aviation safety summit with a warning. more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates when planes are pushing back, in control towers and on flight decks. the government says it s investigating six runway incursions this year alone, including one at washington s reagan airport 8
eliminate. is that something you support? i would have to give that one some more thought. maybe we should actually say if you are so worried about the words that we are using you shouldn t be flying, you know, multi ton metal engines through the sky. bret: that s one example. they are talking about cockpit and airmen and wife and. you know, look, there seems to be trend uptick in recent criticisms coming from the political right in america that all fall into a certain category whether it s talking about banks, whether it s talking about institutions, whether it s talking about our transportation systems the overall argument is that we are spending too much time focused on the wrong thing. we need to be focused on the functionality of these institutions than delivering on their promise to the american people and not distracted by an agenda that frankly has a lot more to do with politics and with the debate about a lot of different social movements in america than they do on get