politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. coast to coast chaos. nationwide system outage delays flights all across the country. right now planes are back in the air, but too little runway, too little airspace, means thousands of travelers are stuck. president biden says he doesn t know how classified documents found their way into his private office. and enough. influential new york republicans call for one of their own, george santos to resign, after a dismantling of his campaign lies and shady accounting. we begin with a morning of travel hell and demands that the government get its act together. the faa says right now its flight control system is back online and it is working. an early morning outage grounded all flights earlier today. in all that means more than 6,000 flights were delayed and as a result more than 1,000 were canceled. today s mess comes, of course, weeks after the southwest airlines holiday season meltdown that led
that either. let me ask you, this is about your political expertise, a little more of a political judgment. is this an issue the people getting on airplanes happen to be democrats, republicans and independents, you don t travel based on party. in this new washington where republicans say we re going to be careful about spending any money. they want to spend less, not more. is this the type of issue you say will require more capital investments? they might say, okay, we need to do this even though we don t want to spend more money? i ll leave the politics to you, john. i ll give you the economics and the infrastructure. yes, yes and yes again. look at the money spent in qatar, the money spent in china, all the new major airports, adding runway capacity, adding for the people act so that more planes can fly in the same airspace safely and efficiently. the united states is not falling back dramatically, but there is more money that needs to be
had been scheduled. another 375 flights delayed. over the weekend, american airlines s coo toll staff that the problem began with high winds which runway capacity at its hub in dallas. that created a domino effect causing many other crew members to miss their flights. still ahead, he s one of the republicans who stood up to donald trump s pressure campaign to overturn the election. georgia s secretary of state joins the conversation, next on morning joe. conversation, nex morning joe.
lester all right anne thompson tonight, thank you. here at home american airlines is getting back to normal after canceling thousands of flights over the last three days affecting more than 200,000 passengers tom costello is at reagan national airport. tom, what went wrong reporter: well, the airline is blaming high winds and reduced runway capacity in dallas late last week and a series of cascading problems that got worse and worse. in fact, very quickly it found it didn t have enough flight attendants they were out of position it canceled 2,200 flights since last friday 20% of flights on sunday alone today about 8% of flights canceled that s nearly 500 flights affecting tens of thousands of passengers the airlines says about 1,800 flight attendants who had been on leave are now coming back and expect to be back to normal operations tomorrow. but the pilot union saying that corporate mismanagement is to blame here and the pilots are warning this could be a rough holiday travel s