‘Pay attention!’, Spirit Airline pilots are told.

The crew of a passenger jet was reprimanded for taking a flight course too close to Air Force One and for taking too long to adjust direction.

The incident occurred over Long Island, and President Donald J. Trump was aboard AF1.

New York Post reported:

“Pilots flying Spirit Airlines Flight 1300, traveling from Fort Lauderdale to Boston, were scolded by an air traffic controller Tuesday after they tried warning them, they were rapidly closing in on the president’s plane altitude and flight path as it was en route to the United Kingdom.

[…] ‘Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right’, the air traffic controller said, according to recordings from liveatc.net.

‘Pay attention, Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right. Spirit 1300, turn 20 degrees right, now. Spirit wings 1300, turn 20 degrees right, immediately’.”

After a delay, the pilots acknowledged the instructions and adjusted the course.

“However, the air traffic controller reprimanded them again to ‘pay attention’ to whom they were getting close to.

‘Spirit 1300, traffic off your left wing by six mi– or eight miles, 747. I’m sure you can see who it is. Keep an eye out for him — he’s white and blue’, the controller said. […] ‘Pay attention! Get off the iPad’.”

AIR FORCE ONE and Spirit Airlines flt NK1300 got too close over Long Island, New York for Air Traffic Control and get’s yelled at including getting told “GET OFF THE IPAD”!

Tip via @xJonNYC
Audio via @liveatc & Tracking via @ADSBex pic.twitter.com/sLJ0rip8sG

— Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) September 17, 2025

It’s reported that Air Force One was never in real danger, despite the emphatic messages of the air traffic controller.

Both Air Force One and the Spirit Airlines plane landed safely in London and Boston, respectively.

Read more:

LISTEN: “Welcome Home, Charlie. You Didn’t Deserve it. May God Bless Your Family” – Air Traffic Controller at Phoenix Sky Harbor Welcomes Charlie Kirk as Air Force Two Lands with Casket

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This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.

Ex-CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez testified today before the Senate HELP Committee in a desperate attempt to smear RFK Jr.’s name and build pressure for him to resign.

But things didn’t go according to plan. Senator Rand Paul wasn’t about to let that happen. After Monarez got a few softball questions from Bernie Sanders and others, Paul stepped in with the tough ones.

He started with the basics—asking if the COVID vaccines actually stop transmission.

PAUL: “Does the COVID vaccine prevent transmission?”

MONAREZ: “The COVID vaccine can reduce viral load in individuals who are—”

PAUL: “Does it prevent transmission?”

MONAREZ: “When you have reduced viral load… you will have reduced transmission.”

PAUL: “But in other words, it DOESN’T prevent transmission. You can still transmit the virus if you’ve had the vaccine.”

Rand Paul just grilled ousted CDC official Susan Monarez and exposed the truth about the COVID vaccine on the record.

This was an EPIC moment on Capitol Hill.

While Big Pharma Senators spent their time praising Monarez, Paul cornered her and demanded answers.

And when she… pic.twitter.com/gtHnS7IRay

— Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) September 17, 2025

Paul then turned to children. He asked Monarez if the COVID vaccine was indicated for kids.

She repeated the same line—that “it can” reduce hospitalization and death. But Paul wasn’t letting it slide.

PAUL: “Does the COVID vaccine reduce hospitalization for children under 18?”

MONAREZ: “It can.”

Paul fired back. “It doesn’t. The statistics are inconclusive. And the reason you can’t prove that it does is there’s so few people under 18 that go to the hospital. The numbers are extraordinarily small.”

When he pressed further about whether the vaccines reduce death in children, Monarez again answered, “It can.”

That’s when Paul shut it down. He pointed to the real risk children face—not COVID, but myocarditis.

“You find that there is a risk of myocarditis, a significant event [in young men and boys]. It’s somewhere between 6 and 8 in 10,000. But that’s much greater than the risk of hospitalization or death, which are not even measurable because they’re so small.”

Rand Paul expertly OBLITERATES the ex-CDC director over whether children need COVID vaccines.

PAUL: “Does the COVID vaccine reduce hospitalization for children under 18?”

MONAREZ: “It can.”

Paul wasn’t about to let that slide.

“It doesn’t,” he fired back. “The statistics are… pic.twitter.com/zrUjfIsJIq

— Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) September 17, 2025

From there, Paul moved on to the hepatitis B vaccine. Monarez tried to pivot, but Paul wasn’t letting her off the hook. She couldn’t come up with a single argument in favor of giving Hep B on the first day of life, looking like a deer in headlights when Paul asked her the question.

Paul also exposed the real reason she was fired. Monarez claimed she resisted firing what she called “respected scientists.” But as Paul pointed out, those same scientists were still pushing COVID shots for 6-month-old babies.

PAUL: “So you resisted firing people who have this idea that the COVID vaccine should be at six months. That’s what this is about. You didn’t resist firing the beautiful scientists that are career people and un-objective and unbiased.

“You wouldn’t fire the people who are saying that we have to vaccinate our kids at six months of age. That’s who you refuse to fire.”

MONAREZ: “So that assertion, is not commensurate with the experience that I had with the individuals who are identified to be fired.”

PAUL: “Did any of the people you refused to fire believe that we should change the vaccine schedule and no longer force six-month-old kids to take it?

“Everyone of them was adamant we should keep it at six months.”

Rand Paul gets to the root of the issue behind why Susan Monarez was let go from the CDC.

You could feel it…the moment everything changed.

It was about one thing: the childhood vaccine schedule.

And Senator Paul made it clear that this is the debate the public deserves to… pic.twitter.com/X8INKfmUuS

— Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) September 17, 2025

CNN regrettably aired the entire exchange for their audience, but they quickly ran cover, explaining to viewers what Monarez MIGHT have said after she froze under Paul’s questioning. The spin was obvious.

“[Paul] was being testy.”

“[Monarez] was very calm and trying to answer his questions.”

“He [Paul] was asking, for example, about hepatitis B. And I think where she started to answer but kept getting cut off was that there is this risk of babies getting hepatitis B, usually maternal-to-child transmission. Mothers can be screened for hepatitis B ahead of time, but, you know, sometimes those screens, about 10% of the time, you’ll get false negatives…”

And that’s why people call them fake news.

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Former President Barack Obama took a vile shot at President Trump and his administration during his first public remarks on the Charlie Kirk assassination.

As CBS News reported, Obama appeared at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, PA, on Tuesday for a “conversation” with broadcaster Steve Scully. During the discussion, Obama weighed in with his thoughts on the horrific murder of Kirk.

He told Scully that Kirk’s assassination was a “threat to all of us” and “a tragedy.”

“When it happens to somebody, even if you think they’re quote unquote ‘on the other side of the argument,’ that’s a threat to all of us, and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it,” Obama said.

“Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy,” he added.

Then, Obama attacked Trump for his supposed “extreme views” and for putting the full weight of the government behind these views. At the same time, he played the innocent victim.

“But I’ll say this — those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them,” he asserted, in remarks obtained by the Erie Times-News.

“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.”

In other words, Obama appears to be partially blaming Trump for creating the atmosphere that contributed to Kirk’s murder. Just when you thought he could not get more shameless.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Obama raised eyebrows last week after posting a tweet responding to the Kirk assassination.

“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X.

“Michelle and I will pray for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children,” he added.

The first part of his post, “We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk,” sparked massive social media backlash.

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ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman has been humiliated into issuing a groveling apology after referring to the “touching” love notes exchanged between Charlie Kirk’s cold-blooded assassin and his roommate during a horrific murder that shocked the nation.

Only after a torrent of backlash did Gutman issue a mealy-mouthed apology, claiming he “deeply regrets” his words.

The Gateway Pundit reported that Utah authorities on Tuesday released the full text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs.

Gutman gushed about the suspect’s “intimate” text messages to his transitioning roommate, calling them “very touching” and painting a picture of some tragic romance amid the bloodshed.

It was the kind of twisted commentary that exposes the deep rot in mainstream media, where sympathy for murderers trumps justice for victims.

Gutman: We have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages about the alleged murder weapon—where it was hidden, how it was placed, what was on it. But it was also very touching in a way that I think many of us didn’t expect. It was a very intimate portrait of this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who was transitioning, “my love,” and saying, “I want to protect you, my love.” So, it was this duality of someone who, the attorney said, not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but did so in front of children—which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And, on the other hand, he was speaking so lovingly about his partner.

Gutman doubled down just ten minutes later, insisting the texts revealed a “heartbreaking duality” and a “very human experience.”

“It’s heartbreaking on so many levels, Kiera. Obviously, Charlie Kirk was murdered brutally in front of a crowd of thousands of people who watched him being shot through the neck and then essentially bleed out in front of them. I think one of the things that the attorney here made a very fine point about is that a lot of these charges—seven charges—were aggravated because children were present.

Children witnessed this. Children were put in harm’s way. That was something that, obviously, is aggravating here. That’s one of the reasons that the suspect, in addition to the alleged murder being political in nature, is facing the death penalty. They’re going for the death penalty.

On the other hand, there is this duality: a portrait of a very human person, a very human experience, from this entire family. As you mentioned, the mother essentially discovered that it was her son who had done this—the kid who had got a 34 out of 36 on the ACTs, who had a 4.0, who got a full ride to college here. That kid was the one who allegedly perpetrated this. She saw those pictures and identified him, essentially.

Then those text messages. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a press conference in which we’ve read text messages that are, a) so fulsome, so robust, so apparently, allegedly self-incriminating, and yet, on the other hand, so touching—with the suspect reaching out to his roommate, who is allegedly his boyfriend, who we understand was identified as male at birth but now identifies as female. And the terminology he used—he was trying to protect him. He kept calling him “my love.” My reason for doing this is to protect you. But also, he was asking him to delete the messages and not speak to law enforcement. So there’s this heartbreaking duality that we’re seeing play out very tragically.”

The blowback was immediate. Americans were outraged that, rather than condemning the politically motivated slaughter of a conservative leader, Gutman and ABC chose to elevate the murderer’s “romantic” text messages.

By Wednesday morning, Gutman was FORCED to issue a statement walking back his remarks:

“Yesterday I tried to underscore the jarring contrast between this cold blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk – a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue – and the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County Attorney at the press conference.

I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear. But let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk’s family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired.”

2. I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear.

But let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk’s family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired.

— Matt Gutman (@mattgutmanABC) September 17, 2025

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced on Wednesday that the Fed will reduce interest rates by 25 basis points—or 0.25%—to 4.25%.

This is the first interest rate reduction since December 2024, and it is only a 25 basis point cut.

Breaking: The Fed lowered rates by a quarter point, and officials penciled in cuts at each of two remaining meetings this year https://t.co/5W3WRYPWK9

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 17, 2025

The Dow jumped 400 points after the Fed lowered rates and forecast two more cuts this year.

Dow jumps 400 points as Fed lowers rates and forecasts two more cuts this year: Live updates https://t.co/dVpQiHr56x

— CNBC (@CNBC) September 17, 2025

According to CNBC, Trump appointee Stephen Miran called for a 50 basis point reduction in interest rates in a lone dissent.

Miran was sworn in on Tuesday ahead of the FOMC meeting.

DEVELOPING…

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