28th. welcome to cnn this morning. southwest airlines now facing federal scrutiny as thousands of passengers remain stranded, some for more than a week. southwest today has already cancelled 60% of their flights and the ceo now issuing this video apology. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we ve been facing, whether you haven t been able to get where you needed to go or you re one of our employees, to understand that we re doing everything that we can to return to normal operations and also hear i m truly sorry. the supreme court has decided to keep in place the border restriction known as title 42 and the legal challenges the court will hear in february, it now could be months that the migrants desperately seeking asylum could get the way to enter the united states legally. and it s revealed that former white house aide cassidy hutchison said she saw mark meadows burning documents in his office about a dozen times. she also told the committee there we
legally. there is really harm going on. mothers and fathers are being picked back across the bridge in mexico holding their children s hands into the mexican cartel. there are thousands of documented cases of rape, torture, persecution, even death. this is horrific what s happening and there s no longer any public health justification. if you want to debate border management policy, debate that but let s not misuse a public health law. and it s accurate that congress hasn t addressed this since 1986, during the reagan administration. the republican-led states, 19 who have prevailed for now, quote, the greatly increased number of migrants will necessarily increase state s law enforcement and education and health care costs. they re saying we can t bear the
be able to come into our community. we the american people absolutely have the right to know who is coming through our borders. carley: you know as todd just mentioned president biden meant with the hispanic caucus yesterday and the chairman of that caucus disagrees with what you are saying. listen here. we are in a different position now than we were in the past. there is ample vaccines available. the ability to test and quarantine that works. so title 42 should be lifted and we should focus on border management policy. carley: what is your response to that? i think he s living in an alternate universe. every member including our representative who are running against, they live in an alternate universe. they keep telling the american public that we can control who
contests in border states. republican lawmakers were on the border yesterday. we ask them what their plan will be. no plan is given. the white house is being pulled in the other direction by members of the congressional hispanic caucus who met with president biden monday. title 42 should be lifted. we should focus on border management policy in order to make sure that they have the resources in order to move forward. joining me now is julia ainsley who covers the department of homeland security and the justice department. first of all, what s going to happen with this court ruling? it s a temporary injunction. is the administration going to fight it because it s so short-term? it s analogous to the masking rule. it s more temporary than it first appears. what the judge is ruling on he says he will issue this