Russia thing a hoax. i think there is a danger of sort of going down this track about sort of ratcheting up the meaning of this meddling. we should understand in advance there is never going to be a smoking gun. there is never going to be videotape of somebody tampering with the voting machine. i personally would be a lot happier if there was more talks about the human rights abuses. 60,000 people took to the streets in russia. the same person was arrested the day after he announced a run for mayor of moscow back in 2013. there are people coming up dead on videotape. this is really serious stuff. they are making war not so much against the united states but their own people as well and it is a broader discussion that needs to go on about this. guys, let me know if we have that tape ready to play.
And how that may be a factor. also, if you re really going to think about it is there anything beyond that? could it be anything like somebody tampering with the system? the fact that they seem to be regaining some of their connectivity to me would rule out the possibility of a serious hack. let s hope that s not happening here. united and continental, as we said, have struggled over the last couple years to merge their systems, but they ve really done that over the course of the last year. they have they had another connectivity problem or computer glitch about a month and a half ago but they seemed to work out those problems in the merger between united and continental. the fact you have another significant setback like this, i suspect, is going to raise a lot of eyebrows certainly with the company. you can bet the ceos and execs