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Sean Duffy: “Both lines [at Newark] went down due to a glitch in our…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Great question, great question. So you mentioned that we get some telecom blips where the main line might go down, we'll kick to the redundant line. Newark was different. So actually Both lines [at Newark] went down due to a glitch in our computer system. that overloaded the backup line and it happened twice. We overloaded it. That glitch has been fixed, but it's also called into question, why did they move it and why didn't they harden those lines? (04:59–05:02)

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