and that. is it a cartoon or is it congress? the seemingly endless lies from congressman elect george santos could be catching up with him. the embattled republican under investigation by the feds and his state with just six days until he is scheduled to be sworn in to office. the clock is ticking. santos vows he s going to take his seat in the house. the plan is being met by resistance. democrats and some republicans are questioning his legitimacy. santos has some defenders. they argue plenty of d.c. politicians have been caught telling very tall tales. welcome back as america report goes on. anita, i m gillian turner. we ll ask who santos should do. we begin with southwest airlines facing major backlash from its own pilots. at the end of the day, southwest wasn t prepared. unfortunately, this has been a decade in the making. we ve sounded alarm bells and tried to get them to change processes. nobody has reached out to inform us to what s going on, even the recov
americans. that doesn t mean because you re on one side of the issue that you don t think everybody else is a racist and if you re on the other side that you hate america. we re more complex than that. my hope that the washington post and any other post that curbs this including fox news can do so in a way that invites us to understand each other more deeply and why we concern about confederacy and american history in the first place. we re all americans at the end of the day. that s right. as a new year s resolution, i hope people understand that. thank you. john wood jr. gillian? back to the breaking news this hour. brazilian soccer icon pele passing away at the age of 82 after a battle with colon canner. joining us by phone, sports caster jim gray. jim, brazil deemed pele a national treasure. historians have dubbed him the face of soccer.