unprecedented things going on here with the fact that we have so many members of people coming back really rapidly. so you have that. convergence of events with more passengers, limited capacity on top of the weather delays that the travel industry typically knows how to deal with. i don t think they were able to ram up up fast enough to handle the pent up demand that came roaring back. neil: you re right. one of the other things, you have the delta pilots, an 1,200 picketing at seven major airports and disrupting flights the more. it like the industry is turning on itself. picketing doesn t disrupt anything. it brings uncertainty. we have to put things in context here. we re not back to 2019 levels. this year we ll have about 832 million in plane passengers that compares to 980 prior to this pandemic.
officials talk to their ukrainian counterparts. we have sent the message from day one, really before this invasion began, that we stand by ukraine. that we will rally the world to support them. that we will get them the weapons and the ammunition and the other security assistance they need to defend their country. that hasn t changed. that will not change. that would be a message we would deliver in person. it s the message we deliver in one on one phone calls and message we delivered really at every level of our government from the united states to ukraine. special adviser for the national security council, matt miller, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you. meanwhile, two british nationals are fighting on the front lines for ukraine have been captured by russian troops. and breaking news from another part of the world, we are getting word of multiple explosions targeting schools in kabul. plus, back here in the u.s., plane passengers are throwing out their masks
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