political conference wrapped up over the weekend with former donald trump continuing his grip on the gop even as the january 6 investigation looms over any potential comeback. and, travel headaches continue for many across the country, as more than 1500 flights are cancelled this weekend and at least 13,000 delayed. we ll have the latest on the perfect storm of issues creating travel nightmares for thousands of american travelers. joe. well, you know, mika, you talk to pete buttigieg, transportation secretary last week, and he said things were getting better. things aren t getting better. you look at those numbers and everybody that we ve talked to that is trying to move around over the past several weeks, every different story is a nightmare. we ll get to that. but first, jonathan lemire wait, wait, wait, wait. but first, happy birthday kathy scarborough. now, please. i was going to jonathan lemire to wish happy birthday. but thank you for doing it. and i would think
he says his agency doesn t share information about ongoing matters. let s get right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. this tension between the lawmakers and the inspector general has been going on for a while, but it seems to be escalating. it s an ongoing battle. we re seeing this escalation, between two top democrats, bennie thompson, carolyn maloney, with the dhs ig and now they re cuesiaccusing the ig of obstruction. is this goes back to the claim that the ig failed to notify congress that these texts were gone from the secret service from that period around january 6th. right after that, thompson and maloney demanded he recuse himself from any investigation into the secret service. now they re taking it a step further, saying he really hasn t cooperated with them in the past several weeks so they re writing this in the letter they just sent today. they re saying, in response to the committee s requests, you have refused to produce responsive documents a
it passed in spite of weeks of protests. new lap permits for borden shun only in cases of incest or. rape or if the fetus has a lethal anomaly. physicians would lose their licenses performing. portions the white house as it s another about a call step by republican legislators to take away women s reproductive rights and freedom input personal health care decisions in the hands of politicians rather than women and their doctors. meanwhile, in wisconsin, donald trump continue to push the big lie that he won the big election declaring this an except a week for his american first movement and marquette candidate that helped defeat. you probably saw that the trump endorsed candidates, like masters, easily won that nomination for the u.s. senate in arizona. terry lake won the nomination for arizona governor, to dixon won the nomination for michigan governor. john gibbs, great guy, defeated ryan or congressman peter meijer. peter my error. also new in texas, a jury added 45 p
crisis firsthand. mayor adams declared an emergency in response to 4,000 asylum seekers coming to new york city over the past three months. he says they are straining the city s shelter system. but, according to governor abbott, that is nothing compared to what texas is dealing with. public officials across the country, they do need to realize the magnitude of the chaos created by biden s open border policies. they re up in arms about a few thousand people coming into their communities over the past few months? listen, in any one sector in the state of texas, we have more than 5,000 people coming across that sector every single day. and so, listen, we re full in the state of texas, our committees are overrun and i started bussing people to washington, dc when local officials could not handle the number of people that had come across their border. we have team coverage, david spunt at the justice department with breaking details about the biden administration forcing ill
this hour. right now election battles are underway in two of the biggest states. these are really important primaries happening today in new york and in florida. they are out voting. reporters are fanned out in each of those states. bryan llenas is here in new york city. phil keating is on board in florida this afternoon in the sunshine state. brian, what s going on in new york? martha, good afternoon. all eyes are on new york s we drawn 12th congressional district which pits two democratic leaders against one another and what has been a personal and nasty clash between once friends. representative carolyn maloney going against jerry nadler. now, maloney has questioned whether sadler is senile. maloney says she s the female candidate needed to protect abortion rights. nadler has called her gullible and cowardly for voting for the iraq war and patriot act. i m the principled progressive. i cast hard votes, unpopular votes that have proven right like voting against the war