Transportation Secretary and former reality TV star Sean Duffy went on CNN to speak with Jake Tapper about the air traffic controller shortage that Duffy created and how it will impact Thanksgiving travel plans. Long answer short: It's not good:

TAPPER: So you talked about Thanksgiving. Do you have any sort of numerical idea of how many Americans will not be able to be with their families for the holiday because of this?

DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial.

Again, you look at the trend line, Jake, and it's only gotten worse as we've gone through the shutdown. We're day 40 now. And we saw the largest number of outage of controllers was on Halloween, the 31st. Those numbers were 61. Yesterday it was 81.

And the controllers that I've talked to said, a lot of them, we can

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