politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. coast to coast chaos. nationwide system outage delays flights all across the country. right now planes are back in the air, but too little runway, too little airspace, means thousands of travelers are stuck. president biden says he doesn t know how classified documents found their way into his private office. and enough. influential new york republicans call for one of their own, george santos to resign, after a dismantling of his campaign lies and shady accounting. we begin with a morning of travel hell and demands that the government get its act together. the faa says right now its flight control system is back online and it is working. an early morning outage grounded all flights earlier today. in all that means more than 6,000 flights were delayed and as a result more than 1,000 were canceled. today s mess comes, of course, weeks after the southwest airlines holiday season meltdown that led
reset. good morning. parts of america s largest state under water as millions face a flooding disaster in california. dramatic rescues under way now as roads buckle, cars submerge and downtown l.a. at risk. we ll take you there live. more classified documents and another investigation, this time it is a different president. the current one. what president biden s team has discovered in his private office, but also why his case is different than the one playing out at mar-a-lago. rudy giuliani subpoenaed as the special counsel follows the money. chilling discoveries in the search for a missing mother. what her husband searched online and what he bought after her disappearance. deborah norville will join us live. and new twist in russia s war, why the united states is making a significant change involving the weapons it is sending to ukraine. we have new reporting just moments away. cnn this morning starts right now. and thank you for joining us, everyone. we re goi
it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
let me be the first to tell you that there is finally a new speaker of the house, and the 118 congress has officially been convened. it took four days, and 15 tries, but in the early hours of this morning, the california congressman, kevin mccarthy, was finally elected the new speaker, putting him third in line for the presidency of the united states. it was a tough road getting there, especially last night, when tensions between republican members themselves, almost reached a breaking point. from the house reconvened at 10 pm last night, republicans appeared hopeful that they had votes to elect mccarthy on the 14th ballot, but when that seem headed for baylor, mccarthy s allied huddled around the florida congressman, matt gates, to get him to vote for mccarthy. instead, gates voted present, which is not good enough to win mccarthy in speakership. after the roll call, mccarthy himself approached gates, the two exchanged words amid a group of other lawmakers. mccarthy was the