They weren't doing the work of actually keeping people safe. And so now I'm left with a situation where we actually have to fix it. We have to upgrade our system, make it brand new. We need more air traffic controllers. We have to retrain our air traffic controllers. It's a really big job. And maybe because it's such a big job, the last administration chose not to do it. (05:27–05:29)
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