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IrelandMullin gives no restart timetable in White House ground-stop briefing
CNBC's report captures officials separating safety assurances from unanswered questions about the telecommunications outage.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 196,244 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (14,474).
Homeland Security Sec. Mullin: President Trump has been briefed on nationwide ground stop
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Things we can learn from the video
Press to jump
- 0:12LeBeau explains air traffic control centers and why departures are being held during the communications disruption.
- 2:44Mullin says flights already airborne are being handled case by case.
- 4:35No restart timetable has been set; Mullin rejects an unconfirmed seven-hour estimate.
- 5:25Asked about AI, Mullin says investigators cannot yet rule anything out.
- 7:22Mullin says two U.S. regions remain unaffected and able to communicate normally.
- 9:47LeBeau reads an FAA statement confirming the nationwide outage and safety measures.
CNBC's Phil LeBeau explains the immediate logic of keeping departures on the ground: don't add more aircraft to skies where air traffic control communications are disrupted.
"Those planes are staying in place. We're not going to add more traffic to the skies until we figure out exactly what has happened here," he says.
The report then moves to questions outside the White House. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says President Donald Trump has been briefed and that aircraft already airborne are being handled case by case. But reassurance is not a restart schedule. Mullin says no timetable has been established, rejecting an unconfirmed suggestion that resolving the problem would take seven hours.
Asked whether AI could be involved, he says investigators cannot yet rule anything out. That is an open investigative question, not an identified cause. He also says two regions remain able to communicate normally.
Posted during the November 13 shutdown, the report drew about 200,000 views in its first day, roughly fourteen times CNBC Television's usual start for regular videos. A separate report from Steve Liesman on the Federal Reserve's financial stability review also drew an unusually large audience, with respondents' concerns about AI among its subjects.
LeBeau closes the ground-stop report by reading a fresh FAA statement confirming the nationwide outage and the safety measures being taken.
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- Channel
- CNBC Television
- Subscribers
- 3,420,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 8,914,428
- Channel views, pace per day
- 952,785 (on a normal day: 1,259,796)
- Video published
- November 13, 2026
- Video views so far
- 197,935 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 16,992
The numbers
The White House briefing drew a much larger first-day audience than CNBC Television's usual regular upload.
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Which CNBC reporter explains the aviation disruption in this report?
Phil LeBeau explains the ground stop and reads the FAA's updated statement.