Scott Besant
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This is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration.
In 2020, September 2022, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter to the Justice Department, to the Labor, to the Transport Department, saying that they should oppose the merger with Spirit Airlines.
JetBlue wanted to buy them for $3.8 billion.
It would have given them much more resiliency.
And she and the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who's probably the worst Transportation Secretary in history, when he came to the office, they also were against the merger.
And if JetBlue had merged with Spirit, we would have...
All these jobs that were lost yesterday, we had 30 airports, 30 regional airports who have lost service.
But the reason we were here was because the merger, the Biden administration opposed the merger.
We shouldn't have been here in the first place.
We are suffocating the regime.
This is a real economic blockade.
In September 2022, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter saying that they should oppose the merger with Spirit Airlines.
It would have given them much more resiliency.
But what we found, and it's counterintuitive, that a lot of corporates had held up some of their CapEx because of the IEPA lawsuit that eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.
So now, using Section 301, which has survived more than 5,000 legal challenges, they will be certain of what the tariff policy is.
Every day we are taking out their missiles, their missile systems, and the factories that build those missiles.
And now General Kane, Secretary Hegseth are leading a campaign to destroy all the fortifications along the Straits of Hermosa.
Again, they're not mutually exclusive.
Sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate, Chris.
Again, as I said, all options are on the table.