present. one of the lawyers on this a very complicated case, thank you very much for making time for us tonight. thank you for having me. i have to say, i was raised catholic, and there s one thing a takeaway for my catholic childhood, people that are scared, tired, lonely, and cold, in a strange land of the people who we should be caring for. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now with alicia menendez in for alex. good evening. good evening, chris, a conducive debater myself. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. alex has the night of. this is something that has happened every day, like clockwork frizzling as many of us can remember. the white house sends out to the media something called the daily guidance. it is a basic schedule for the president that day. here s a recent one for president biden. at the top, there are a few paragraphs describing what the presidents day will entail, and below, that there is a schedule of the
for joining us this hour, i m alicia menendez, alex has the night off. this is something that has happened every day, like clockwork frizzling as many of us can remember. the white house sends out to the media something called the daily guidance. it is a basic schedule for the president that day. here s a recent one for president biden. at the top, there are a few paragraphs describing what the presidents day will entail, and below, that there is a schedule of the major events planned, getting the intelligence briefing, major meetings, timing of any travel the president will do. they put it out so that the price can play in its coverage, and so you, the american people, can know the basic aligned of what our president is doing on any given day. this is something done every day, every white house, under every president. just a couple weeks before the end of donald trump s presidency, something truly weird happened. do you remember this? the white house started issuing daily gu
that s part of the union contract, which is what southwest tells us. southwest has maintained this entire time that they haven t had any staffing shortages, and if they were prepared for the storm. it s typical to see, because with that area in denver, there is a shortage for them to raise a state of emergency. just talking to pilots and seeing other things from what pilots another cruise are seen, it does appear that they had enough staff. this really seems to be a problem at the eternal system. you have pilots, passengers, customers, everybody trying to call in because their systems require manual recording and things like that. it just can t handle the number of calls, the amount of information coming in. just in georgia, transportation reporter for the washington post, thank you so much for your time tonight. joining us now, david slotkin, senior aviation business reporter from david, thank you so much for
just talking to pilots and seeing other things from what pilots another cruise are seen, it does appear that they had enough staff. this really seems to be a problem at the eternal system. you have pilots, passengers, customers, everybody trying to call in because their systems require manual recording and things like that. it just can t handle the number of calls, the amount of information coming in. just in georgia, transportation reporter for the washington post, thank you so much for your time tonight. joining us now, david slotkin, senior aviation business reporter from david, thank you so much for being with us. you treated that peoples lives are likely to be ruined by southwest mountains down what did you mean by that? thank you for having me. it s a tough situation the passengers are going to right now. people are stranded, literally stranded. this is the busiest travel period of the year. there are not a lot of seats