house next week, they will hold the administration accountable on this issue. he is here in moments as is jonathan turley with his analysis. first to aishah hasnie who is live for us in washington. aishah, good afternoon. good afternoon to you, trace. as the white house continues to blame republicans in congress for not passing immigration reform, democrat congressman henry cuellar of texas tells mes that an unfair assessment since the administration has the power to change policy today if it wanted to. without due respect to the administration, i agree, we need to do immigration reform. but they can change the policy by having order at the border where they can say they did it for the venezuelans. honestly, i think the homeland security department is struggling with some of the more progressive white house staffers. i hope homeland wins this particular fight. cuellar is responding to republican criticism that there was lack of border funding in that 1.7 trillion omnibu
communications and logistics technology resulting in this meltdown. the watch dog group says southwest received $7.2 billion in federal subsidy since the pandemic. since they received a lot, we the american people, we deserve a lot. after the airline melted down here in the christmas holiday season, it s evident we didn t receive the benefits. u.s. department of transportation says southwest airlines will be held responsible. they are talking about ticket refound, meal vouchers, hotel vouchers, things of that nature. trace? trace: thanks. let s bring in elaine chao, former labor secretary in the george w. bush administration. mike tobin makes a good point there. i want to play this sound bite, this is from pete buttigieg