dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the admi
midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
robin, thank you for being here today. nothing joins americans together more than their frustration over airlines. now, jetblue, which i fly frequently, too frequently, actually, is about, perhaps, to merge with spirit airlines. you have a deal with american airlines. how does that help me or others, average travelers, how does that help make our lives more convenient? mike, first of all, thank you for flying jetblue so much. we do appreciate it. look, this is all about bump up his status. we can talk about it off air. look, we happen to think a bigger jetblue is better for everybody. the biggest challenge we have is we are 5% of the market. you have four massive airlines in the u.s. that have about 20% of the market, so 80% all together. the rest of us have 20% between us. so whether it is our commercial
have to go in this website and hope you can get reimbursed for the hotel you have to stay in, just a nightmare. willie, as you will recall, with a younger family, when you have little kids, traveling to any airport and flying anywhere is incredibly difficult. i have a couple of grandchildren here in this house with us today. they re flying jetblue, but i m thinking about southwest airlines and the money they are going to have to pay out. i don t know where they re going to get it. they ve been paying so much in dividends to their shareholders that they scrimped on coming up with a computer system that would allow them to operate in a crisis like they went through. and the crisis management situation in southwest airlines is one that business schools are going to be studying for quite some time. and they ve received massive amounts, along with other airlines, of taxpayer money. they re going to have to bail themselves out of this one. let s turn to the weather forecast for the final
you will if you re a mets fan. i know, but it s so it s so exclusionary. sports humor. don t you agree, david ? no, david , i follow bad backgammon and nothing else. a man flying jetblue from new york to detroit was arrested monday after allegedly on the two hour flight. his attorney later defended his behavior, saying some people enjoy plotting after a smooth landing. my client does this instead. one hundred and seventy eight people named herock kazue tanaka broke the guinness world record for the largest gathering of people with the same name. the weirdest part was that everyone at the party was wearing a name tag . germans are fighting rising heating costs with a new class called dance yourself. warm instructor says it combines traditional moves like