politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. coast to coast chaos. nationwide system outage delays flights all across the country. right now planes are back in the air, but too little runway, too little airspace, means thousands of travelers are stuck. president biden says he doesn t know how classified documents found their way into his private office. and enough. influential new york republicans call for one of their own, george santos to resign, after a dismantling of his campaign lies and shady accounting. we begin with a morning of travel hell and demands that the government get its act together. the faa says right now its flight control system is back online and it is working. an early morning outage grounded all flights earlier today. in all that means more than 6,000 flights were delayed and as a result more than 1,000 were canceled. today s mess comes, of course, weeks after the southwest airlines holiday season meltdown that led
that either. let me ask you, this is about your political expertise, a little more of a political judgment. is this an issue the people getting on airplanes happen to be democrats, republicans and independents, you don t travel based on party. in this new washington where republicans say we re going to be careful about spending any money. they want to spend less, not more. is this the type of issue you say will require more capital investments? they might say, okay, we need to do this even though we don t want to spend more money? i ll leave the politics to you, john. i ll give you the economics and the infrastructure. yes, yes and yes again. look at the money spent in qatar, the money spent in china, all the new major airports, adding runway capacity, adding for the people act so that more planes can fly in the same airspace safely and efficiently. the united states is not falling back dramatically, but there is more money that needs to be