and it was not til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it s all backed up. this is insane. i don t know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. john: begin america reports with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it s a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices. the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a
brian: so cool. i used to have a normal clarinet. as you know i was all junior high but you are looking at super bowl 57. of course, this is the best band in america until tomorrow s and they are up early for us here in arizona because we are back on the road and it s a fox super bowl and now we are back on the set. and we have woken up everybody in and around the stadium, guys. that is the pride of the west. and now you know why they are so proud. steve: that s right. hey, good morning, brian. ashley: good morning. steve: congratulations getting out to arizona. i have bad news for you. it s actually warmer right now in new york city than it is in arizona. we got 53 degrees. there where you are it is 4 wait, hand warmers are you serious? yeah. what has happened? what is happening in arizona? you go there because the dry heat. guess to be 100 degrees if not more there. it s warmer in new york in february than it is there, brian. brian: listen, if you guys would a
the intelligence committee. kevin mccarthy showing his boss, while making the announcement. watch. those voters elected schiff, even though he lied. those voters elected swalwell, even though he lied to the american public too. i ll respect his voters too. they ll serve on committees. they will not serve on a place that has national intelligence security relevance. jesse: they re complaining to anybody in the sympathetic media who will listen. the cardinal sin appears to be that i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago. do they want to come back for vengeance and take me off my committees to punish me? in my case it s purely political vengeance. i think he ll regret giving us more time on our hands. it s not going to stop me at all. he s taking one of the most precious pieces of glass ware in the congressional cabinet and smashing it. it s about revenge, appeasing the former president. it was a fundraising gimmick on the one hand, but more seriously
dana: why did the administration let it spend days floating over sensitive military sites? among those pressing the pentagon for answers is montana senator john tester. say yes or no. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes or no? yes. we think we know what they were going to collect, we don t know. that scares the hell out of me. we are building our understanding of what capabilities they have. i have a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country. mike: president biden down playing the incident. president biden: it is not a look, it is totally violation of national law, our airspace. once they come in our space we can do what we want with it. mike: we begin with bryan llenas off the coast of south carolina where the salvage operation is moving forward. good morning, bryan. good morning. the f.b.i. says a majority of the chinese spy balloon remains underwater spread out in two separate sections in
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