this one. system meltdown. the faa tries to get flight backs on track after a pilot notification system failed. what caused the massive outage that led to massive delays and cancellations? the dangers of tiktok. beyond suspicions that the child e chinese government can access your company, how the addictive content puts teen girls at risk of depression. republicans rolling out committee chairmanships and assignments with interesting and provocative picks. george santos is denied his first choice for a committee seat. his fellow republicans begin to call for his resignation. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. major decisions under way on capitol hill. republican lawmakers say their party steering committee is deciding which republican members will sit on the most powerful committees in the house of representatives. it s giving us all new insights into the deals that now speaker kevin mccarthy may have made with his hardline opponents
you are a sound of music fan out there, it s how do you solve a problem like george santos. he was only sworn in a few days ago, but the republican congressman who lied about, well, where he worked, where he went to school, about being jewish. remember, when he said what he meant was jew-ish? now he s in hot water with members of his own party back in new york state. i ll talk to two new york republicans who are now calling for him to resign. but as the chorus for calls for him to step down get much, much louder, the congressman is trying to shut it down by saying this. i will not. he will not. well, there s also another batch of classified government records found by president joe biden s legal team. that s after the initial discovery of those classified documents in his one-time office in washington back in november. so where were these new documents found, and what s in them? and, frankly, how long have they known about this set of documents as well? plus, a republ
the unions in this country now have the support, whether union members or not, of over 60% of the american people, never before have union been that popular, labor union. or 60% the american people. i think that s important. because they re figuring it. out you are the bulwark against success. you are the ones. and by the way, you know, like all of you, like many of you, i wasn t raised poor. but, i wasn t wealthy. we lived in a three bedroom split level home and in a town called mayfield in delaware with four kids, mom, that, and a grandpa. but we were all right. we could always tell whether things were going. rough we had two sets of bunks in one room. you could hear my dad when he was restless. you could hear the headboard. i remember asking my mom one day, what s the matter with that? she said, honey, we just lost our insurance. people shouldn t have to face that reality in america. it shouldn t be the case. the unions make sure that we didn t have to face that. but the r
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the breaking news. an additional classified documents and other government records just found by president biden s lawyers. let s go to our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly with the latest on that. tell us what you re learning about this second batch of material that was discovered. reporter: wolf, the last two days we ve been talking about the occasion where a personal lawyer for president biden on november 2nd, while going through personal items of an office the president no longer uses discovered classified documents and it ended up being ten in total. that process has kicked off what has been a justice department review of those classified documents, but it also, behind the scenes, kicked off an effort by the president s legal team to search any other locations for classified documents during his time as vice president. w