loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. but amid the staggering number of flight cancellations and delays, finger pointing from employees now over who is to blame for this mess is beginning. senior correspondent mike to. mike: good evening, bret. and as southwest executives are promising return to normal operations, transportation secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airlines for problems that were, quote: within the control of the airlines. as he writes that, he also wrote these frontline employees are not to blame for mistakes at the leadership level. the secretary add mop be issue inned the airline to make good on everything from reimbursement to returns home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled across the nation today. the bulk of them southwest. the bosses at the airline issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right. after many plans changed, and experiences fell short of your ex
fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re goin
when you re telling people that a presidential election is being stolen, you can t be shocked when people believe you and then become violent. at some point, they have to take responsibility. you know, you know, the thing is, mika first of all, donald trump is saying that it s smart. yeah, so smart that while he is sitting there lying to them and grifting and getting hundreds of millions of dollars from people lying, saying, give me money and we ll fight the election, and it all goes to him. first of all, not smart there. also, unfortunately, there were a lot of people that went up to the capitol because they believed donald trump. they believed his lies. yeah. they re sitting in prison right now. he s just sitting back at mar-a-lago, living his life, loving it. family vacations around the world, on beaches. flying all around on his private, well, you know, 757, whatever it is. flying from one country club to another. and they re sitting in jail, yeah. you ll no
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that at all. a subvariant of omicron. with millions of people seeming to be getting sick at once over there. hospitals fill, morgues filling. i think it s time we actually put a pause here because before we have gotten into problems from at the beginning of the pandemic. let s face it, china does not see itself as part of the global health world community. they are not going to give us the correct data. it s a dangerous situation for the world. bret: so, as you look at this from not only the different variants, maybe more virulent variants of covid coming from this situation in china. you also have now new questions about the efficacy of maskings. the covid coordinator, dr. shaw at the white house saying to the philadelphia enquirer, most experts plea if we make some basic investments in indoor air qualities we can reduce all respiratory infections by 60, 80%. the note you can cut respiratory infection no study that shows