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Sean Duffy: “We've already replaced 50% of the old wires, moving from…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 09:02

To put that in context, we work at more sites than Chick Fil A has restaurants in America and we work on Sundays. So let's talk about the progress that we've already made. We've already replaced 50% of the old wires, moving from copper to fiber. So remember a little less than a year ago in Newark, right, In newark we had two outages at different times. 45 seconds each were where controllers for 45 seconds couldn't talk to airplanes. (09:02–09:09)

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