Secretary of Transportation Pete #Buttigieg sought to tamp down concerns about the safety and durability of bridges throughout the U.S. after a bridge in #Baltimore collapsed.
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Yellow journalism at its best here
Downplay? He addressed the concerns and said exactly what he thought is important.
Those are massive vessels and US regulations are not always upheld. I’m sure the boat was not cleared to ship but the company did anyways.
Get money out of politics if you want a safer society
Yeah but you have feed the poorly educated misinformation so they can hate what they are told to hate.
Well we’ll, there’s been a Pete B sighting. Must have been breast feeding at home.
If bridges collapse in the United States due to upkeep, you can blame the Republican party for voting down infrastructure.
bills and cutting funding.
To maintain the integrity of buildings. Sewage electricity highways In their own country. The Baltimore bridge was hit by a ship leaving the Harbor.
That caused the collapse.
The lack of concern for the American voter and their selfishness.
Shows through.
Is there ANYTHING that you don’t blame Republicans for?
@@randywhitten6539 I’m not political, but it’s both sides. Blame everything on each other. The issue lies within both sides.
The only bridge he cares about is on his nose and up his rear end.
Where are Pete’s Mickey Mouse ears????
Here we go NBC running stories with right wing titles. Ronna McDaniels isn’t even on the job yet. Sad.
She did 1 show. Not her own, but as a guest. Maddow, coffee joe, Mika and Chuck Todd cried and screamed so much, NBC fired her. Hahahaha😂😂🎉
This is the only person that exceeds KJP in the useless category.
He’s great at his job and clear at explaining things
Pete Buttigieg will be President one day soon and I’m on board with that. PS. I’m a lifelong conservative Republican.
@@Justmekpcyeah like how the bridge collapsing is somehow related to racism. He typically says a whole lot of nothing with a lot of words.
@@stephanieanderson1924 you just lied as he never said anything like that now why?
What makes you hate him so much you’ll just lie for no reason?
@@Justmekpc I didn’t lie. I just happen to watch more than 1 news stations. https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1772610161460355072/img/uUMxmEaDyeCyOLdK?format=jpg&name=small
Sounds like an intelligent response. Whoever wrote the title caption… over dramatic.
My corn flakes were soggy this morning AND I BLAME BIDEN!!!!
He is to involved with identity politics to do a good job
Do you disagree with his answer here?
Pete Buttigieg is another worthless democrat dei hire. 🙄
How stupid of a question reporters today are dumb
They have to dumb it down for this administration.
Nothing dumb about the question nor the answer. It’s you.
@@DavidDickman7704
Gotta admire that
Trump University pride,
Go Traitors !
MAGA Dum Loudly
The exact same thing happened in the 90s the skyway bridge in Tampa
Nothing to see here folks!
No special navigator or tugboats to guide the ship in?
Hey Pete come over here this is a hole in the ground not your butt.
Just make sure the bridge isn’t racist 🤡
I heard it was which is why it had to go
The bridge was also a trump supporter
I heard there were secretive ties to Russia
I heard the bridge owes 454 million
I heard the bridge was behind Jan 6. The day that will live in infamy
How paranoid should we be that every bridge is gonna struck by a cargo ship.
Nickname – USELESS!
He’s a homosexual, he knows nothing about transportation or anything for that matter, he shouldn’t be in any office let alone that office in my opinion….
Look Butty judge LOL
Huh? Downplays? He’s stating the obvious.
Bridges can’t stand much side load but should have had bumpers in front of the piers so the boats can’t hit them
A bumper isn’t stopping a fully loaded cargo ship
Wasn’t he appointmented by Biden , Correct me if I’m wrong the Transportation Director?.. The Biden Administration was so concerned about the bridges and highways throughout the country needed fixing..Now there downplaying it ??? TYPICAL DEMOCRATS..VOTE THESE MF’S OUT OF OFFICE..
3 years and still no baby milk on the shelves
Buttplug = failure
I can do Buttigieg’s job talk and do nothing 😄
If you all would put our money where it should go we would not have this problem…stop lobbying money in the USA…
Pete yada yada
I am concerned about Biden’s inability to personally inspect all infrastructure in the USA for potential problems. Trump did! 👈 Blatantly lying.
1000 foot freighter with 1000 containers on it doing 10 kn you’re not stopping that thing they lost power twice peep booty judges right for once
I would trust this administration with a erector set.
And by the way, the next step is no ship can run under its own power without tugs before they make the bridge all bridges
wow booty juice showed up
“I can take a big unit, most bridges cannot “.
It didn’t just collapse. It was knocked down by a giant ship.
NBC, playing both sides against each other.
REALLY….BOAT CRASHED INTO ITS BASE…IT DID NOT COLLAPSE, BY ITSELF….$DOLLAR STORE REPORTER.!!
I’m shocked he didn’t complain about to many white people building the bridge
Good Lord thare she is woman of the hour, boy of the minute, queen of the prom WHAT A FKING JOKE
I dont like this guy, but his response to this stupid question seemed appropriate to me. When you strike a bridge with a massive cargo ship weighing in excess of 165,000 tons, bad stuff happens.
The problem is, that the whole bridge collapsed in seconds, not just a portion of it. Also, that bridge should’ve been able to withstand a lot more than it did, especially being in such a high trafficked port area.
I don’t think that bridge should have failed that quickly
Wow, who got him out of the house..
Very concerned..we spend more on Ukraine than our own infrastructure
Heres another fine loser from hitler Joes administration. Its terrible of loss of life. God bless the families
BOOTY JUICE!
Shout out to booty juice
Send more of our diluted dollars to Ukraine instead of working on the infrastructure… hmmm
Booty juice
OMG a nuke just took out a bridge! How concerned should we be about our bridges in this country?
You wouldn’t be texting comments
These are definitely terrorist attacks but of course the media won’t tell you smh.
The failure of a neglected and aging bridges is very different than a massive cargo ship ramming it.
Blame Republicans, they never wanted an infrastructure bill passed for many years, up until president Biden did it..
Bridge didn’t see ship.
Bridge couldn’t move.
Bridge knocked down by ship.
It was an accident dude.
I wouldn’t hire this guy for a grade school newspaper.
I have another question where was the pilot boat to lead that big cargo ship out of that area where was that thing at was that because of budget cuts
Buttplug
The bridge was built over 50 years ago before new safety codes were implemented.
He’s aged
#Smartest person in most rooms…future is in good hands
This guy is TERRIBLE at his job…
Thanks for that Secretary Booty Juice
Buttiplug is one of the most useless political tyrants in Brandon’s administration
How many years has the George Washington Bridge been listed as CONDEMNED? Yet the tolls keep increasing.
America politicians only care about how they can buy their next multi-million dollar house on a salary of less than 200k a year.
Baltimore: “A bridge collapsed!“
Biden Administration: “Was it a racist bridge? Were any LGBTQRSTUV’s injured or killed? How do we know Trump wasn’t responsible for this?”
Bet my last dollar it was worth planned
This was NOT a collapse it was hit by a huge BOAT. Pete is NOT downplaying anything and this administration has been a leader on fixing and repairing infrastructure AND the money is from bills the right wing congress critters voted AGAINST but are running on….”oh look what I did for you!!!!”
Wow he actually sounds like he knows what he’s talking about
Sec. Buttigieg is one of the brightest minds we’ve ever had in politics. He always knows what he’s talking about.
Booty juice
Idiots. He gave a complete common sense answer to a very complicated design and structure issues. “Downplays” People the Kool-Aid is strong within your Maga cult. Please pick your Island soon so the normal people can breathe again.
The conspiracy theorists are already making up bs.
Wow he showed up .. this time
Butt-boy has no clue about bridge construction or safety, he is just a quota hire!
Imagine if we didn’t send billions to places that do not need it like Israel, that bridge would take months to build, brand new, with a new design and stronger than before.
well im sure you heard about Biden’s Infrastructure Act for $1.2 Trillion. $560k went to prince george county in baltimore for bridges. $80million went to the baltimore harbor tunnel. $9.9 million went for safe strees in baltimore, $38M went for the baltimore airport terminal. ~source white house website
seems like a lot of work is getting done. but if you think more can be done, take it up with the republicans that voted against the bill…. hint only 13 republicans voted in favor of it.
It’s a tragedy but not necessarily a sign of terrible negligence considering a cargo ship crashed into it.
Why wasn’t there any bumpers to block this from happening…. And did any look into if this could happen. Since this a major shipping port
Poihiki
3 more times will shut down the east coast
If,the Republicans would have listened years ago,to the warning by ,then president Obama, to pass a bill to fix the roads bridges highway tunnels,this may not have happened, but they voted it down,again and again ,they should be ashamed of themselves right now,thank you president Biden for getting the infustructure bill passed..
Was that Peter Doocy from Fox . That was a Stupid question . Sorry
I didn’t see anyone downplaying anything. I heard a reporter ask a legitimate question and a government official give an educated answer.
Buttihole
This bundle-of- sticks has to go and make a bridge collapse, a racist thing when he starts talking about minority kids on a school bus.
DEI HIRE!!! THIS ADMINISTRATION SUCKS!!
Oh yeah trust your government 😵💫
his favorite part of the job is being a SECRETARY
We really need to worry about whether the bridges are racist
I guess I should study once more English because I did not see any downplaying down by the Secretary….
Best swingset swinger with his boyfriend this country has ever had…
Besides that, as useless and incompetent as the rest of this admoronistration….
Great answer… This is just an accident… Pray for the victims…
He’s too busy being concerned about the racist bridges
Always playing gotcha questions beneath a fifth grader, the building collapsed due to the ship and I guess you have extremely poor memory you forgot the passing of the infrastructure bill that currently doing repairs in all 50 states including red states that voted against it. SMH
This guy has Zero experience. Chaos airplane, collapse bridges. Weak leadership.
He wasn’t downplaying the collapse. A giant container ship hit the bridge. If it was a 165k ton ship traveling at 15 kts that is close to 1m tons of energy
This man will be President someday, and will gladly vote for him.
Yup!
so nice to be in an administration where responses from the presidents cabinet are intelligent, structured, and informative,
Why are they making this about infrastructure and the bridge was hit by a ship? Anything is news to him.
So glad we have an expert like Pete B00ty Juice on the case..😂
Only be concerned if this dip thinks it’s a racist bridge. I hope the insurance of that company is paying for it and not the tax payers.
I don’t see him down playing. He just said it’s a unique circumstance and then give other incidences of other bridge collapses.
This secretary is a mediocre😡
Buttigieg didn’t downplay anything. He gave a thoughtful and educated response.
It’s funny most bridges have a blocker in front of them and they just happen to hit this one that didn’t. This is the demise of America get ready