stability for the loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. staggering numbers of cancellations and delays and finger pointing to employees now of who to blame. mike tobin is at the chicago airport, good evening, mike. reporter: good evening, southwest executives promised to return to normal operation. secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airline of problems that were quote, within controls of the airlines, the secretary monitors the airlines making good on everything on reimbursements and returning home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled and bulk of them is southwest. the boss issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on reliability and level of customer experience of what we expect o
acknowledges were false. for example, santos claimed that he attended baruch college and nyu, but neither school has a record of his attendance. santos also lied about his work history, as well as making several false claims about his personal life. he said he was a quote unquote, proud, only to backtrack and say he was jewish. now on twitter, santos also claimed that his mother had died on 9/11, quote, 9/11 claimed my mother s life. he wrote . but a few months later on twitter, santos wrote that his mother had died in 2016. on tuesday, i spoke directly to santos to try to better understand his side of the story. here s part of our conversation. my question is , do you have no shame? do you have no shame? and the people who are now you re asking to trust you to go and be their voice for them, their families and their kids in washington policy. i say the same thing about the democrats and the party. look at joe biden. joe biden s been lying to the american people for 40 ye
new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi
around santos. a complaint has been filed against him with the federal election commission. federal prosecutors are looking into his finances. law enforcement in brazil say they intend to reinstate charges connected to a stolen checkbook back in 08. he has called them distractions, but we ve got a lot of distractions here, erin. thank you very much, omar. harry enten is were me now. harry, look, scandal and some of this, whether it s just pathological lying, some of it is criminal if it happened, pure out criminal. house speaker kevin mccarthy, though, still refuses to call on santos to resign. he gave him two committee assignments. why? well, he has a slim majority, and if george santos resigns, then that will trigger a special election, and we know from the past presidential vote in new york s 3rd congressional district that joe biden won there. he won there rather easily, won there you can see on your screen right now by eight points over donald trump back in 2020. and the fact
clinton as well. so he s afraid of losing a seat and thereby having his slim majority become even slimmer. this is all about politics. all about politics. now, when you look at that, you say, wait, how did george santos even win that district? yeah. because you would say if there s a special election, democrats are going to win it. not so fast? not so fast. so if you look at the 2022 elections that took place in the 3rd congressional district, obviously santos won. but guess who also won? lee zeldin, the gubernatorial republican. 12 points. won by 12 points. in the u.s. senate rate, joe pinion, a four-point win over chuck schumer. george santos was in line with the average republican in that seat. the fact is when you look at the 2020 presidential election, that might give you one look. but you look at the 2022 elections, i think republicans could in fact win a special election in that seat. it s amazing. what you see is that real shift from democrats to republicans that