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Far-left protesters interrupted an interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) at the What's Next conference in Denver, Colorado, on Friday.One heckler called Jeffries a traitor and screamed for another impeachment as Jeffries was being interviewed by Jessica Tarlov of Fox News. 'Why should we trust you, when you’re in the pocket of corporations and you take money from private equity?' "We've got to fix what's been broken, and we're gonna begin very early on in the new Congress by working to reverse the Medicaid cuts and working to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits," said Jeffries. "And then we've got to go further to make sure that we don't just fix what's broken," he added."You are a f***ing liar!" a man yelled from the audience."The American people demanded impeachment!" he added."90% of Democrats, who you pretend to lead."Most of the audience booed him, and Jeffries paused while the heckler was escorted out of the room. However, he continued to yell."You're a f***ing traitor! You're a f***ing oligarch lapdog!" he added."So how about permitting reform?" Tarlov joked."F*** you all! F*** you all!" the heckler continued as he was escorted out.Shortly thereafter, another protester shouted, “Why should we vote for you when you are in the pocket of [inaudible], and you take money from private equity?"You don’t fight for the people!” "Remember, y'all, I grew up in Brooklyn," Jeffries joked.The interruption lasted about two minutes, according to the C-SPAN video, and the conference continued on afterward.The protesters yelled slogans that reflect the far-left socialist fringe's effort to keep Jeffries from taking the reins as the speaker of the House after the massive Democratic victories in the midterms.RELATED: Hakeem Jeffries implies democratic socialists oppose his leadership out of RACISM Other speakers at the conference called for Democrats to avoid controversy and work toward substantive cooperation with President Donald Trump. James Talarico, who won a U.S. Senate seat for Texas, called on Democrats to work with Trump to make his last two years in office the "most productive of any presidency.""We can’t play it safe. We can’t get bogged down in the same petty fights," said Talarico."We can’t settle for nibbling around the edges or results people will only feel a decade from now," he added. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Movie star and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger has a few key tenets for what a true Republican is and says no one is going to change his philosophy.The former politician also said that despite his party affiliation, there was one major issue that prevented him from being willing to endorse President Donald Trump in past elections.'Yeah, I'm a Republican. Absolutely.'Party animalAppearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Schwarzenegger, who served two terms as a Republican governor of California, was remarking on his ability to work amicably with his predecessor, Democrat Gray Davis. He said that getting along with Davis at a charity event was a showcase for how "Democrats and Republicans can do something together and not hate each other."This prompted Kimmel to ask if the action star was "still a Republican.""Yeah, I'm a Republican. Absolutely."Kimmel wanted to know exactly what that meant, implying that it was hard to tell what being a Republican stands for in the current political climate.Schwarzenegger was not too shy to answer."Well, a traditional Republican is someone that admires the Republican Party for having freed the slaves," he began. "This is the history. This is what I'm about."Giving slaves citizenship and the right to vote, to Kimmel, "sounds like all the opposite things that the Republican party stands for now," the host claimed.Schwarzenegger didn't budge: "Yeah, but it doesn't mean that I have to change my philosophy."Describing that philosophy of a mix between Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, the former Mr. Olympia noted some of his preferred policy decisions that take the moniker of conservative quite literally. This included the creation of the California Air Resources Board and the Environmental Protection Agency.RELATED: Actor Ryan Phillippe says he's done with politics — but progressives tell him he's not allowed Muscle breachBeing an environmentalist Republican is what Schwarzenegger also said was the determining factor in his decision to not endorse President Trump in 2016.The 79-year-old said that during a phone call, he told Trump that while he was willing to be his friend, then-candidate Trump's refusal to consider climate change as a key issue meant he couldn't back him."I said, 'You don't believe there is climate change. You don't believe [in] the threat of pollution,'" Schwarzenegger recalled."I said, 'I know. I've worked on that issue for so many years.'"Trump's alleged response was that he "totally understand[s]" and had no ill will toward the bodybuilder.RELATED: DON'T MENTION THE ISLAM: John Cleese versus Britain's new sacred cows Randy Holmes/Disney/Getty Images 'Bogus' Barack?Kimmel and Schwarzenegger did a lot of agreeing on the show, promoting unity between Republicans and Democrats despite Schwarzenegger's description of Kimmel as "much more liberal" than he is, with Kimmel saying they probably agreed on 85% of topics.Schwarzenegger, however, was keen on the idea that no party working on its own can create proper policy, and this is why he was a great politician, because he willingly worked with Democrats.Neither party "did true immigration reform. So we [are] still fighting over immigration," the "Governator" claimed. "None of them participated in reducing our debt. None of them created a health care system where everyone is insured," he added.While Kimmel argued that "one of them tried," likely referring to President Barack Obama, Schwarzenegger replied, "Bogus.""If the Democrats do something by themselves or if the Republicans do something by themselves, it's bogus," Schwarzenegger concluded.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop on all departing flights on Friday afternoon.Departing flights have been grounded over what the FAA called "extraordinary circumstances" and "reasons of safety."'FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.'"All departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice," the air traffic control advisory said."Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis," the FAA added.At 4:16 p.m. Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a statement on X about the stoppage."The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers," he wrote. "FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them."RELATED: Scare at Mar-a-Lago after another plane violates airspace, causing F-16 fighter jets to scramble A similar ground stop was issued by the FAA in Jan. 2023 that delayed 4,600 flights and canceled another 567 flights.The FAA had said in a post on social media at the time it needed time to "validate the integrity of flight and safety information."This is a developing story. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

No charges will be filed against a mother who was behind the wheel of a truck that hit multiple people on a soccer field in Wichita, Kansas, last month, killing a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, the Sedgwick County district attorney said Thursday, according to KAKE-TV.“This is not a crime, and I cannot charge this driver with a crime,” DA Marc Bennett said during a news conference with the Wichita Police Department, the station noted.'We obtained the vehicle history from Chevrolet and Carfax. We checked for recalls and service bulletins. None were found.'Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan said that prior to the Oct. 17 incident, the driver of the Chevrolet truck told her children she was going to take a nap and put her seat all the way back, the station said. After she fell asleep, one of her children put up a sunshade, KAKE said — and an image displayed during in the news conference shows the sunshade against the truck's windshield.Sedgwick County Emergency Communications received multiple 911 calls around 3:25 p.m. reporting that a truck had driven onto a soccer field during a match at the Stryker Sports Complex in northeast Wichita, the station said.Cole Adrian, 6, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, both from McPherson, were killed, the station said, while 10 others — ranging in age from 5 to 68 — were injured and taken to hospitals. The station added that as of Thursday none of the surviving victims are facing critical injuries.Police said the driver of the truck was identified as a 34-year-old woman from Garden City, the station said, adding that her name has not been released.The woman departed from Garden City at 7 a.m. and traveled directly to the Stryker Sports Complex with her children, who were participating in soccer matches, the station said, adding that the mother drove for nearly four hours.From 1:20 to 2:30 p.m., the driver and her children went to lunch and ran errands, the station said, then returned to the sports complex and where she placed her vehicle in a west-facing parking stall."I also want to say that when the vehicle returned, in interviews with the driver and the children, the driver told the children that she was going to take a nap, and she put the seat back all the way … and goes to sleep,” Sullivan said Thursday, according to the station.The driver's vehicle was in the parking stall from 2:36 p.m. until 3:22 p.m. when the incident occurred, the station said.Sullivan told the station that after the incident, an off-duty police officer from Dodge City saw that the driver's seat was all the way back when he approached the driver.The woman was cooperative at all times, Sullivan said, according to the station, and investigators found no impairing substances in the truck or in the blood sample the woman provided.Investigators after consulting with the DA's office initially lacked probable cause to arrest the driver, the station said, adding that investigators conducted nearly 50 interviews with witnesses and others following the incident.No recalls were found for her vehicle, the station said, and an inspection showed no mechanical issues with the vehicle.“We obtained the vehicle history from Chevrolet and Carfax," Sullivan said, according to the station. "We checked for recalls and service bulletins. None were found."Sullivan said police recreated the scene with an officer of a similar size and stature, the station said. Officials said another truck that was the same make, model, and year as the woman's vehicle was placed in the exact parking stall where the her vehicle was before the incident.Officers found that if the truck was left in drive, it would not go over the curb — meaning the gas pedal had to have been engaged, the station said.RELATED: Mom released from custody after truck she was driving hits multiple people on soccer field, killing boy, 6, man, 35: Police District Attorney Bennett said a medical emergency had no role in the incident, there was no evidence of impairment, and she was driving a truck that was not her normal vehicle, the station said.“She drove her husband's truck,” Bennett said, according to the station. “She'd been driving it for a few days, but it was not her normal vehicle.”Bennett also said there's no evidence of an intentional crime, the station said, and that the driver told police that she "put it in park."The DA's written report indicates that if the woman had placed the truck in park in the stall before the incident, a number of things would have had to occur in order for the vehicle to be accidentally placed in drive — while she was asleep — which makes such a possibility "less plausible." First, the brake pedal would have to be engaged before the column shift moved from park to drive; the shifter would have to move forward from park and then down into drive; the act of shifting from park to drive results in a noise that the driver and the other occupants of the vehicle missed; and then if all the latter occurs, the driver would then have to remove her foot from the brake pedal to the gas pedal "while she slept."The report adds that the possibility the driver thought she placed the vehicle in park but actually left it in drive in the parking stall appears to be the "most likely explanation," as it requires only one final step: the driver inadvertently placing her foot on the gas pedal while asleep.Prosecutors could not establish that the driver "knowingly" or "recklessly" endangered anyone, which is required by Kansas law for criminal charges the be considered, Fox News said, adding that the report also notes that a single act of negligence was insufficient to support a vehicular manslaughter charge under state law.What's more, Kansas does not have negligent homicide on the books, KAKE noted, adding that the only crime Bennett could charge is vehicular homicide — but he said there is “not enough” evidence for it.Bennett added to the station that if he brought a vehicular homicide charge, he would be guilty of hindsight bias.“There are no facts uncovered by this investigation to suggest this was an intentional act. There are no facts to conclude that this was a knowing act,” Bennett said, according to KAKE. “There are no facts in this case uncovered to conclude that this was a reckless act, as that term is defined by Kansas law, not as understood in common parlance as we talk about it in our daily lives. But conscious disregard. I cannot prove she consciously disregarded a tremendous risk to the people on that field.”DeVaughn James Injury Lawyers confirmed to the station that it is working with some of the affected families on possible civil lawsuits.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!