We're going to do the work to make sure that we do have a state of the art air traffic control system. But this was, this, this should not be a surprise to anybody from the last administration. Watchdog groups have even told [the last administration] multiple times, you have a real issue with your air traffic control system. Fix it. Outages in Newark, they probably should have hardened those lines, laid fiber before they moved the Newark airspace to Philly. Those things weren't done. (18:27–18:35)
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