28th. welcome to cnn this morning. southwest airlines now facing federal scrutiny as thousands of passengers remain stranded, some for more than a week. southwest today has already cancelled 60% of their flights and the ceo now issuing this video apology. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we ve been facing, whether you haven t been able to get where you needed to go or you re one of our employees, to understand that we re doing everything that we can to return to normal operations and also hear i m truly sorry. the supreme court has decided to keep in place the border restriction known as title 42 and the legal challenges the court will hear in february, it now could be months that the migrants desperately seeking asylum could get the way to enter the united states legally. and it s revealed that former white house aide cassidy hutchison said she saw mark meadows burning documents in his office about a dozen times. she also told the committee there we
you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
lone at large congressional seat. congresswoman liz cheney, vice chair of the january 6th committee was, well, and isolated, as we expected. she lost by a resounding 37 points, 28.9%, to 68.3, wyoming voters overwhelmingly rebuked cheney, who stood up to donald trump after his insurrection, voting to impeach him and then helping to lead the committee investigating his actions. now liz cheney has earned a lot of praise, especially liberal circles, for taking a stand against trump and his attempt to end america s constitutional republic. fellow january 6th committee member, congressman jamie raskin, has spoken incredibly fondly about her, recently telling the new republic that she has acted with great honesty confront the lies of the trump machinery. raskin also said about his unlikely friend, quote, juul funneled donald trump to the gates of hell, if she needs to make sure that justice is done and the truth is known. and there is no doubt liz cheney has made genuine career pol
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