hello, i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us today. it is the nightmare that just won t end. southwest airlines canceling thousands more flights with airports coast to coast already packed. more than 4,800 flights today and tomorrow no longer on the books, nearly 16,000 canceled since thursday. all week we have been meeting miserable passengers and southwest says it ll be days before this all clears up. busloads of stranded customers arriving at houston hobby airport this morning, some on the road for more than 24 hours and at chicago midway, this is the sea of luggage that is finally moving. workers are now scrambling to reunite passengers with their bags. we ll begin with cnn s nick valencia at hartsfield jackson international airport in atlanta. another major connecting point for southwest nick, what is happening there behind you? reporter: yeah, hey there, abby. the line here behind me is noticeably shorter than it has been the last several days and t
counsel. trump also floated the idea of blanket pardons for many of his white house staffers saying he didn t want, quote, they to be able to come after his staffers for, quote, any little thing, again, the white house counsel rejecting that idea, but saying, look, no one here has done anything wrong. unclear if the white house counsel knew what mark meadows was up to in his office with all of those fireplace logs. thank you so much for all of that, paula reid. now let s continue this conversation with our cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers. jen, thank you so much for joining us for this. this burning of documents, it s got to be something the justice department and special counsel jack smith is very much interested in. reporter: 100%, abby. this kind of evidence is like gold to prosecutors. first of all, of course, it could support freestanding criminal charges if they can demonstrate these were documents subject to the presidential records act, if