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So I went back and watched the press conference again and something is not adding up… So basically the air traffic control system went haywire at 3:36 p.m, the FAA grounded the entire country with more than 3,500 planes in the air, and when Sean Duffy and Markwayne Mullin finally walked into the White House briefing room at 8:30 p.m., Mullin went first and told everyone it wasn't a cyberattack and nobody was ever in danger, but he never said what caused it, and then Duffy took the podium for about SEVEN MINUTES and blamed old analog switches "overloaded with data," "1980s little copper lines," 25 years of past administrations, and a Congress that won't give him the $50 billion he wants, and he even bragged that the new switches he'd already put in didn't fail, but in all that time he never once mentioned that his team had been working on the system, and then when the very first reporter asked whether he could rule out a cyberattack, Duffy didn't answer it himself, he handed it to Mullin, and here's the strange part, about fourteen minutes in Mullin casually said the FAA had been "putting patches into the system" and new equipment, and that the new technology was overwhelming the older system, which is a VERY different story than old wires just giving out which is what Duffy seemed to be implying the whole time, and instead of explaining that, Duffy came back to the mic and went right back to asking Congress for money, and later when reporters asked why there was no backup plan, he said "we didn't think we would have this kind of outage," and when they asked what was different about Friday, he said they were "still working on the details," but again never mentioned what Mullin had JUST talked about which was that the installation of the upgrades had brought down the old system, so we don’t even know if that ACTUALLY is the cause of what happened so basically you have the potential real explanation buried fourteen minutes deep, the cyberattack question handed off, a possible admission that came from the OTHER secretary, and a $50 billion ask throughout the whole briefing… Something is wrong here.