airlines 777 jet crossed a runway as a smaller cargo plane was landing. and then days before that, an american airlines flight at jfk crossed in front of a delta plane trying to take off. and then there is the near miss in austin, where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. i want to bring in our aviation expert david soucie, who has tried to make me feel better about these things. but david, i m starting to think these are not all anomalies. it s going to feel like there s one of these a week that we report on. it seems like they are a lot more often. and that s only because they are more often right now. if you look at the traffic that s going on in boston right now, boston is at 12,000 flights in january 2021. and now it s come up to 29,000 into january 2023. so, it s nearly three times as much traffic. and they re spacing the airplanes a lot closer together to try to get them out faster. this particular one, alisyn, to make you feel more comfortable
bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
american border problems won t be fixed until congress acts. fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. border. we now have the worst border crisis in american history. china threatens our sovereignty we will act to protect our country and we did. the president s refusal to stand up to china, our most formidable adversary. it s never a good bet to bet against america, never. america can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. steve: we are using the official state of the union address music as you can see. good morning, everybody. it s wednesday, february 8th, 2023. currently in our nation s capital it is 44 degrees. come on in here to studio m., midtown, manhattan. we are at 36 degrees. and welcome to the official post game show. if you did not see what the president was talking about last night in the congress, we got you covered. ainsley: we have all the highlights for you. did you all stay up and watch? brian:
facing the union. we got to a different room. i was in there with five other guys and we pushed a bed in front of the door and turned the lights off and turned the police scanner on down low and waited out for the night. you re a sophomore in college. yeah. you had to do that on your campus. yeah. another deadly school shooting, this time in michigan, as we mark five years since a gunman took the lives of 14 high school students and three staff members in parkland, florida. plus, former south carolina governor nikki haley steps into the ring to challenge trump as mike pence says he plans to fight the special counsel s subpoena. and twitter, twitter whistleblower joins me to tell us what she learned at house republicans hearing on alleged liberal bias on social media. we begin tonight on this february 14th, valentine s day, to those love birds celebrating, it s also frederick douglass birthday. and sadly, it s also five years to the day since the marjorie tayl