Buttigieg on FAA outage: "This should not be about politics"

C-SPAN's clip captures the former transportation secretary answering criticism of his tenure while saying he is rooting for officials to resolve the disruption.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 391,287 views a day, 30 times a normal first day on this channel (12,934).

"When we had an outage, I didn't stand there complaining about the Trump administration."

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Pete Buttigieg begins with a limit on what he can offer: he has no inside information about the nationwide airspace disruption. What he does have is experience of an outage on his own watch, and a response to the political blame surrounding this one.

Asked about Trump administration criticism of the Biden administration, the former transportation secretary tells reporters: "When we had an outage, I didn't stand there complaining about the Trump administration. We got to work."

The exchange drew roughly 390,000 views in its first day on C-SPAN, about thirty times the channel's usual start for a Short. Its full White House briefing with Sean Duffy and Markwayne Mullin also attracted an unusually large audience for a regular video.

Buttigieg's answers extend beyond the remark chosen for the title. He reminds travelers that passengers have rights and directs them to the Department of Transportation website. Asked how a disruption of this scale can happen, he discusses the system's built-in redundancies and recalls the NOTAM system outage during his tenure, without offering a diagnosis of the present failure.

He calls for answers and transparency about what happened. And when a reporter asks whether he has confidence in the current administration's ability to resolve it quickly, his answer is explicit: "Whatever differences I might have with this administration, I am very much rooting for them to get this resolved as quickly as possible."

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The numbers

Both the Buttigieg Short and C-SPAN's full White House briefing drew unusually strong first-day audiences for their respective formats.

the video's first day

usual first day here

12,934

this video

391,287

subscribers

1,990,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,042,628,800

views per day

696,445

typical day: 1,345,354

the video

views

439,746

likes

6,438

comments

1,485

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

AccuWeather

2,190,000

Localish

2,170,000

Onlooker UK

2,120,000

C-SPAN

1,990,000

9 News Australia

1,910,000

CBS Sunday Morning

1,890,000

As of November 15, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.