many are still missing good morning, welcome to way too early, speculation is swirling after the abrupt announcement from the january 6th committee that it plans to hold its sixth public hearing today. the only thing the committee has revealed is the hearing will quote present senior committee staff have been kept out of the loop. three people tell the post that the secrecy is due in part to a credible threat against the witness. the committee announced last week that it was taking a break until the middle of july and yesterday gave just 24 hours notice about the hearing that is scheduled for 1:00 this afternoon. and to add to the fact that congress is in the midst of a two-week recess. key water gls gate figure john dean tweeted, quote, better be a big deal. there was only one surprise witness during the senate watergate committee hearings on july 16, 1973, an announced witness appeared, alex butterfield, who testified to nixon s secret taping system, forever changing hi
the new offer is $400 million from $350 million. this would be paid out if regulators don t approve the deal. it also includes a higher dividend for spirit shareholders and a ticketing fee. a very small fee that will be paid out to spirit shareholders on a monthly basis from january 2023 until the deal closes this. follows front tear s move on friday to sweeten its offer for spirit. all of this should come to a close on thursday where spirit shareholders are due to vote on the frontier deal. julianna tatelbaum live from london for us this morning. thank you very much. still ahead, we will have more reporting on the growing frustrations inside the democratic party, following the supreme court decision on abortion rights. way too early is coming right back. hts. way too early is coming right back % clearer skin at 16 weeks. the majority of people saw 90% clearer skin even at 5 years.
flight. we did that 60 years ago with alan shepherd, not the first with a private astronaut. mike melville did that in 2004 flying spaceship 1. richard branson, of course, bought that technology right after that team won the x prize in 2004. richard branson really isn t technically an astronaut. he wasn t driving the bus, so to speak. but he did attain an altitude, and more importantly to the larger picture of space, brought a lot of attention to this idea of sort of democratizing this latest front tear, this manifest destiny. where do we go now? let s think about going to space, and let s make it more widely available. nasa was never going to get us here. it required some audacious and some might say eccentric, in some cases, billionaires to get us there. who else is going to put down the money to get us there?
we ve done in our brain room. spirit, virgin american, front tear and hawaii as well as alaskan airlines are saying we ll give the federal money back to the federal government. is there no river. no requirement that they give that money back to passengers, scott? i think you hit the nail on the head, there is no legislation. normally what happens is we have an faa bill. congress has been not been doing a good job. we ve had 20 extensions of law. they collect money from passengers and it goes into a trust fund to build better airports . this lapsed because of a budget dispute between the house and senate and the airlines are no longer required to collect the tax. however, far be it for me to think consumer might get a little break here, they raise the fares up to cover that.
and airtran effectively have raised their prices by keeping that money. now according to the research we ve done in our brain room. spirit, virgin american, front tear and hawaii as well as alaskan airlines are saying we ll give the federal money back to the federal government. is there no river. no requirement that they give that money back to passengers, scott? i think you hit the nail on the head, there is no legislation. normally what happens is we have an faa bill. congress has been not been doing a good job. we ve had 20 extensions of law. they collect money from passengers and it goes into a trust fund to build better airports . this lapsed because of a budget dispute between the house and senate and the airlines are no longer required to collect the tax. however, far be it for me to think consumer might get a