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Viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im max foster in london. Biancas off for the day. Just ahead on cnn newsroom. There has been another set of documents that have been discovered. Some of those documents have been classified. This is an ongoing process. He takes it seriously when it comes to classified documents. Theres no indication that santos is going to resign because he clearly has no shame. We dont need George Santos but if he wants to do the right thing, i think he should resign. His fathers friends calling him a sociopath and be Court Documents dated in 2019. Hes leaving tools, clues, signs everywhere. Announcer live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. Well, it is thursday, january 112th, silence speaks louder than words. In the case of the misplaced classified documents the white house is very quiet. Thats after President Bidens legal team found a second set of classified documents. Its not clear where they were found. President biden is already facing questions about why the first set of highly sensitive material was in his former private office. Republicans pouncing on this issue claiming theres a double standard for how the government treats politicians. Phil mattingly is in the white house with more. Reporter as President Biden and the White House Counsels Office described the initial discovery of classified documents, they were turned over to review, they never actually weighed in on whether there could be additional documents out there. As that was happening, there was actually a very quiet but very intensive review ongoing by the president s legal team to see if there were any. In fact, there are. A second set of Government Records has been discovered according to two people briefed on the matter. Some of those Government Records, they are, indeed, classified. Now the president and his team never said there werent any other documents out there. They spoke only about that initial set of ten classified documents. In fact, to some degree they have been very careful. There are no assurances that you can provide at this point there are no other classified documents out there at any other office . Again, this is an ongoing process so im going to let the process continue. It is being reviewed by the Department Of Justice and im just going to leave it there. That answer was one that White House Press secretary repeated over and over to just about every question underscoring the limitations the white house says they feel like they are under as the Justice Department continues this review. Now what actually happens next or if there are anymore documents out there is still an open question. So, too, is what the actual documents, the second set of documents actually included. There are sparse details about where they were found, what was inside of them but it certainly exacerbates the situation that its been particularly perilous. Republicans on capitol hill, senate and House Republicans, say they have called on a Special Counsel to investigate the matter. The situations are different than donald trump and his classified issues. How this actually ends Going Forward has very much remained an open question. The white house says they are fully cooperating. That isnt going to change according to white house officials, but certainly finding a second set of Classified Records further complicates a problem that had only been growing in the hours before it was eventually revealed. Phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. Republicans are in a frenzy about what aboutism calling for a Special Counsel to investigate President Biden just like the government is doing with former President Trump. Andrew mccabe says republicans have a point. I agree with the republicans. There should absolutely be a Special Counsel appointed to review this matter. So lets think about it. The Special Counsel, theres nothing magical about a Special Counsels legal authority. They have the authority to investigate and look at crimes. The whole reason to put a Special Counsel in is when the public would be reasonably concerned that an investigation had been might be, could be, possibly was tainted by politics. There is certainly that concern here with the Attorney General making investigative decisions over the guy who appointed him, President Biden. So, you know, it absolutely calls out for a Special Counsel and i think it goes a long way to addressing some of that criticism that the ags receiving right now from the republican side. I think they should handle each investigation in as similar a manner as possible acknowledging the fact that the facts this each situation are very, very diff different. Meanwhile, George Santos says he has no plans to step down despite growing calls for his resignation from republicans. I will not. Republicans are calling you a disgrace. You will not resign . Less than a week after santos was sworn in leaders at new yorks Nassau County Republican Party are calling for his dismissal after it was discovered he fabricated details about his personal some are calling him a disgrace. Theres no place in the Nassau County Republican Committee nor should he serve in Public Service nor as an elected official. Hes not welcome here at republican headquarters for meetings or any of our events. As i said, hes disgraced the House Of Representatives and we do not consider him one of our congress people. But new House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy said hes not joining the calls for santos to resign. We have the details. Reporter embattled congressman George Santos is facing growing pressure to resign after he admitted to lying about key details on his resume. The Nassau County gop held a Press Conference where they called on him to step down, and weve also seen several House Republicans from new york also freshmen in neighboring districts call on their colleague George Santos to step down, but one person who is not joining the growing chorus of calls is speaker Kevin Mccarthy. He is arguing that decision should be up to his voters to decide. Kevin mccarthy does say he will give George Santos committee assignments. Take a listen. I try to stick by the constitution. The voters elected him. If there is a concern, go through the ethics, well let it move through that. Reporter now santos himself has remained defiant. He told reporters today he will not step down and he followed that up with a tweet making clear he has no plans to resign, but gop leadership will plan to meet with him in the coming days and theyre going to talk to him and try to figure out how to deal with George Santos Going Forward. Kevin mccarthy said he does plan to help him try to earn his trust around here and hes going to give him the opportunity to do so, but he could prove to be a distraction, unwanted distraction as House Republicans enter the new majority. Republicans are aware if santos were to resign it would set up a special election in his district that would or could flip to the democrats. That political reality doesnt matter for the Nassau County Republican Party. Ive made it very clear that that is not our brand. That is not what we stand for. Like i mention, the district i represent has a heavily Orthodox Jewish population and be jews in general. The fact that he claimed he was jewish, that he had family who escaped the holocaust, thats just not something that i can tolerate. Well, heres a look at all the things santos did lie about, and this is just what we know about so far. And the Campaign Watchdog group has filed a complaint with the federal Election Commission against santos. The Group Accuses him of illegally using Campaign Funds to pay personal expenses amongst other things. We are now finding ways in which we can go around George Santos and make sure that the people in his district are served without having to deal with him. I will not deal with him. I think he should resign. Our own chairman, joe cairo, said that we should have done a little better job, but when someone comes for an interview and hands you a resume and fills out a questionnaire, weve never had this before. Who would have thought that an individual would just lie on top of lie and its pathological. Yeah. And basically i didnt know him that well. I had some interaction with him but not a lot of interaction. So i think that we were all shocked, not caught by surprise, shocked at the type of lies that he was spinning and obviously hes lost the public trust. Now the federal Aviation Administration is investigating who or what caused a key Computer System to melt down triggering the second major u. S. Travel disaster in a few weeks. The faa ordered all flights grounded for about 90 minutes on wednesday after a corrupted data file shut down a key system and its backup. Were told the system is, quote, operational and stable but only after causing some 10,500 Flight Delays throughout the day and more than 1300 cancellations. The u. S. Transportation secretary said the faa will take responsibility for the mess. When theres an issue in the faa that needs to get looked at, were going to own it, the same as we ask airlines to own their companys and their operations. But airports across the u. S. Were affected by the mandatory ground stop as well as some overseas including here in the u. K. Miles obrien said the latest Travel Nightmare should be a big wakeup call for the faa. Reporter anybody whos following the faa closely over the years is aware the agency has had great difficulty innovating in the world of technology. A lot of it is consistent underfunding over the years. Some of it is an Aviation Culture which is a little bit hesitant to embrace new technologies, for obvious safety concerns, but what youve ended up with is a system that was built essentially in the 1950s with Spinning Radars and people talking on radios, vhf radios, that really hasnt moved into an age of the internet, to an age of computers, to an age of satellites. And this no tam situation isnt directly related to that but it speaks to the overall culture there of allowing Antiquated Technology to persist. A. M. Mara walker spoke to travelers at the biggest airport in the world, atlanta. Reporter Flight Operations have returned to normal per the faa, at least for the most part. For much of the day airlines were playing catch up. They were dealing with the ripple effect, this domino, of having to get their flights back in the air, rescheduling, getting passengers rebooked. That is why throughout much of wednesday we saw the number of delays continuing to tick up into the thousands. Of courts, tse, this has been a inconvenience. Many have the debacle of a holiday still in mind where we saw a winter storm really cripple the airports and airlines and, of course, subsequently the Southwest Airlines meltdown. One passenger i spoke with told me that he actually missed a funeral because of the delay after delay that he had to deal with so he was unable to attend a funeral in new york, but all in all passengers seem to be taking this in stride although in general there is a sense of frustration. Listen. When my original flight was supposed to take off at 9 05 going to miami and then from miami to costa rica, now weve been delayed three times. There are no more flights leaving today that would get us there on time nor tomorrow nor friday, and at the very moment our flight is set to arrive in miami after the flight takes off to costa rica. I kind of thought it was a southwest issue again. Luckily i noticed it was red, it was the faa issue. So everyones affected, not just us. Reporter the u. S. Transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, says there is no evidence of a cyber attack, although they are still looking into the cause of this faa, federal Aviation Administrations system outage. He said the ground stop was issued out of an abundance of caution and now federal officials are reviewing what happened, the cause and the next steps to take. Well, one of the families affected by the travel chaos is stranded in hawaii. P this woman posted the photo of their husband and daughter waiting to take off. They waited for hours. You look pretty upbeat in the photos, but you were sitting on the plane for five hours. Yeah. The we were all just trying to make the best of it. Just explain how it played out. You got on the plane and then what were you told . Yeah. We got on the plane and got settled and they immediately said that there has been a Computer Issue and they were working on getting it resolved and that we should be taking off within 30 minutes. So but then that time came and went and then we started getting text alerts that said, all right, your flights been pushed back another 45 minutes, then time would come and go and wed get another alert. Then they came on the pa and said it was an American Airlines issue. Then they came on and said, no, this is nationwide. This isnt just us. Were all grounded. Were working on it. We should be up and running, thanks for your patience. Then they came around and said we kept getting pushed back and pushed back. And it was 10 p. M. When we were supposed to depart and it was around 3 a. M. When they did you have some sympathy for the Flight Attendants . Oh, i did. The they were just working so hard to bring us water, food and 90 of the people were super kind but there were a few people that were being very irritated and taking out their frustrations on some of the Flight Attendants. Now youve got a proper sense of what went wrong. A Computer Failure effectively, but also the backup failure. What are your views on how it was all handled and what went wrong . Well, i think that most of the people involved, it wasnt their fault and they did the best they could to accommodate. Its difficult when its the middle of the night, youre traveling with children and the wait to be put up in the hotel room were three hours long. Honestly, most of the people we worked with were doing the best they could with a situation that was much bigger than them and we appreciated everybodys help. So what are you going to do now . Well, weve had to rebook our flights multiple times. There was confusion. Lots of just confusion. Our flight was supposed to be maui, dallas, kansas city and for a while they would only get us to lax and then dallas and so we finally now have a flight booked where we can get back to new york city thursday night around 6. They put us up in a hotel so we have no car, no anything left. Were kind of waiting it out. But, yeah,s so weve missed extra work and we finally have a plan to get home. My husband had to spend another few hours on the phone this morning with them because when we finally did get the flight to kansas city, they booked us on four separate flights, four separate seats all over the plane. I dont want my 8yearold to be sitting by themselves on a plane. We had seats altogether. We had to get that straightened out. I think weve got it now. Leah, good news. At least youre all safe but what a horrible experience. Thank you so much for joining us and sharing your journey. Do all get home safely at some point. All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. The royal mail in the u. K. Is asking not to send letters and parcels internationally for now. You cant send mail abroad. Its not clear what the Cyber Incident was, but an investigation is underway and the royal mail says it has reported the issue to regulators and security authorities. Mississippi has become the latest u. S. State to ban tiktok from the government devices. Governor tate reaves issued the directive on wednesday saying hes concerned china could steal State Government data. Mississippi is following more than a dozen other states in the federal government who have similar bans. Tiktok has called those efforts a political g