Get out of the airport. Spirit airlines leaving the chaos, facing a six Day Mass Cancellation after calling off more than a 1700 flights this week, almost half of the spirits flights were canceled yesterday. They called up over hundreds more today. The Companys Ceo making the rounds on morning shows, trying to clean up the mess. There will still be cancellations over the next few days, but we can build back to full operations, and then build from the takeaways we get from this last week. Up until then, its heartwrenching. Its a terrible experience and we are doing our best. A major Pilot Union coming out against the airlines. The system is collapsing on the passengers eight agents and pilots, and people having their plans tossed aside are at the end of their rope. This line ive never seen this in my life. This has been a horrible experience, horrible. Take, take, take, nobodys got no money like that weve been through a hard year [cheers and applause] we deserve better we deserve better
I lost my pen. Oh, boy, happy friday, everyone. Or as cat likes to call it, com on, liver, you can take it day. Glad to see she recovered from last night. We are also pleased to have companion back on. There she is. Apparently she had gone out Wit Kathy last night. As a kid growing up in the 70s , i loved Science Fiction movies. My favorites, planets of the apes. The omega man, and of course fried green tomatoes. As a kid i imagine the future i frightening and weird. Battling roving bands of marauders, who can forget Mad Max and the sequel to road warrior, riveting tales of dystopian earth. Where survival becomes a daily challenge for them there is Kur Russell and escape from New Yor and later los angeles. Funny how those walls worked. A very funny film societies thinking in crime and ambivalence. I love these movies because lik job a hard remaining employed, assumed it couldnt happen. And less a could be caused by one major event like a Meteor Strike or a nuclear war or hillary becomi
20yearold victim. Look at him and say, oh, he needs to die. You took my brothers life for nothing. For nothing at all. Im Halle Jackson in washington this morning. Here to start us off, gabe gutierrez, morgan chess ski, former prosecutor and civil rights attorney David Henderson and brittany cunningham, black lives matter and msnbc contributor. Let me start with you. We are minutes away now from the defense getting ready for the final day here. What do you have about what the defense has planned . Reporter thats right, halle, we dont have the exact witness list, but we expect the defense to call another expert this morning. Then the big question will be, will Derek Chauvin, himself, testify . Many legal experts say it is highly unlikely. Then again, this is a highly unusual case. There are pros and cons to testifying. If he does, that opposite him up to Cross Examination and that could be something prosecutors would be looking forward to. On the other hand, we havent heard his side of
The Senate Becomes jurors and the case in front of them they witnessed. Incitement of insurrection spurring a hoard of radical right wing terrorists to breach the capitol. The mayhem left five dead that day, including u. S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in one of the darkest days in modern history for americas democracy. The trial starts with debate and then a vote on whether the proceeding against the former president is constitutional. A source says citizen trump is telling former aides and advisers that hes convinced the senate will acquit him. The former president s lawyers tha have dismissed the impeach. As political theater, and a system gone awry. They call this the logical and heinous conclusion of a monthslong campaign by donald trump and his allies, including some accomplices, To Cast Doubt on the election results. They say the president has no defense and the evidence of his misconduct is overwhelming. Todays historic trial, the first time a former president faces im
Approach. I think there is widespread understanding that what we have done for the last six months has failed, from a policy point of view, it has failed politically. We need to change course. We need to have the courage to take on the republicans and let manchin and sinema decide which side they are on. Meantime, a glimmer of hope on the pandemic front. Dr. Fauci saying hes confident omicrons peak is in sight. But if the pattern follows the trend that were seeing in other places such as the northeast, i believe that you will start to see a turnaround throughout the entire country. We dont want to get overconfident, but they look like theyre going in the right direction right now. And as tensions between russia and ukraine intensify, the United Kingdom is accusing Vladimir Putin of plotting to install a pro moscow leader in ukraine. Joining us right now, nbcs Josh Lederman at the white house. Raf sanchez joins us from london. Guys, welcome to you both. Josh, where do things stand with