something to talk about. plus, more of my exclusive interview today with congressman benny thompson who s the chair of the january six committee. we ll give you more the hunter before we talk about everything from where the country goes now to the direct line he sees from january 6 to 4 for president trump. and, southwest airlines is finally getting their travel troubles under control. after leaving thousands of passengers stranded for days. we are talking to the vice president of the southwest flight attendants union, about how this debacle might have been avoided. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say. . we after years of legal wrangling, americans are finally getting a look at former president donald trump s financial records from before and even during his time as president, now, donald trump infamously bugged nearly 50 years of tradition by refusing to just close this financial records to the public. and, this is a problem because nearly every presiden
apology but that won t help the stranded. the stock driving 10% in the last two days. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto, this is your world. we re all over it with mike tobin in chicago s midway airport. jacqui heinrich with the president in st. croix where the administration is vowing to get to the bottom of this and nancy mace on the billions in aid airlines received and the southwest airlines union head fuming over what he calls a catastrophic failure despite all of it. he s here. fox to mike tobin in chicago where it s all going down. mike? well, going down certainly is one way to put it. going downhill. you have this mass of bags standing as a visual example of that. what you have here is a line of people around the whole baggage area. they re being allowed by a desk one by one to walk into this purgatory of bags to expect the bags and see if they have found their bag. every once in a while a big cheer will go up. it s a terrible miss. you have 2,800 domestic fl
the dead week, the best week of the year and for most people this week not a week off from work but at the same time a return to the normal rhythm of regular life. nobody knows what to do with this leftover week awkwardly such that the bottom of the year. this holiday purgatory is dedicated to low expectations, eating, visiting family and resting but even for those of us going to work, it is assumed not much will be accomplished before the new year. so what is on our twixmas to-do list? rachel, there s already down times and a lot to do at the end of the year. rachel: just before i came to get ready to do this show, i left a lot of to-do list with my kids, but it is funny, right? in the building, it feels different, no offense, producers but there is a lower expectation of everything that you can see that is how it feels. i think it is a great time to catch up with people. call your grandma if you haven t called her in a while. call your mom and have the conversations. i ju
when it works. unfortunately, when idealistic on stances our system failed big and we understand that it was not something that anyone intended, but it was absolutely something that was forewarned. so, was it preventable then? i would say that had southwest management at the time taken the warning from unions, the warning from our union and particular, and learned from past meltdown situations on a smaller scale, we could have at least mitigated some of these problems. i was not one of the folks out there stranded, but i know many friends and families and just reading and looking at the headlines i keep coming back to this point that the u.s. government gave about 50 billion dollars in aid to the airline industry at the height of the pandemic.
what is the union asking for? the union is going into negotiations with a southwest management for four years negotiations does not just mean we are looking for money. we actually have points in our negotiated items that speak to modernizing our technology. when we are negotiating, we are not just negotiating for our members, but also for our passengers. and so what i would hope is that we would be able to come to the table with our leadership and become partners in modernizing our operation, speaking to the job we are doing in 2022 in 2023, and remove ourselves from systems that were built for what we did in 1999. that is simply not going to work. we have grown from this tiny little airline with three cities on a napkin, to the largest domestic carrier and we need to grow with it and mary are history with our future. there is work to be done. thank you so much for your