spreads. some big districts going remote others pushing forward with ramped up testing. it would be much better if we stayed in school all the time. seeing the devastation up close residents finally allowed back in after a thousand homes were burned to ground by the wild fire in colorado rising tensions. president biden today on the phone with ukraine s leader vowing to respond decisively if russia invades. and the on field tantrum from the nfl star in the middle of a game antonio brown now gone from another team. good evening more than a hundred million americans were expected to travel around christmas and new year s exceeding last year and now they re all trying to get home in the midst of nasty weather and a continued pandemic more than 2500 flights were canceled just today. part of more than it 12,000 canceled over the past week. the airlines are dealing with employees sick with covid and winter weather today from flooding in kentucky to icy roads in arkansas.
president biden is pushing a spending plan amid record inflation. our friday money panel is here. first right to the white house this morning where we are joined by mark meredith standing by. julie. good morning. supply shortages is hitting businesses nationwide. the white house chief of flack suggested only a certain class of americans are impacted. he retweeted and support a former message. he said most of the economic problems we are facing are high-class problems. we would not have them if the unemployment was still 10%. critics say he is out of touch. jacqui heinrich asked if this comes off as tone deaf? we made progress and what would be worse if the unemployment was at 10% and people were out of work and hundreds of thousands. people were still dying of covid-19 and people lost their home. that s the full context. critics are less than impressed. the michigan congressman said keep talking about this. you emphasize how wildly out of touch you are with real america
brian kilmeade is here. we begin with the report from special counsel john durham. nearly four year since the beginning of his investigation of the origins of the trump-russia collusion narrative. the special counsel concluded the fbi and department of justice failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law. pastor g sherry committee chairman j jim jordan inviting m to capitol hill. mainstream media and democrats trying to write off the term report is nothing new. durham s whole thing is that rabbit hole conspiracy. it s a predictable, sad ending to an investigation that never should have taken place. what you have with john durham is a big fat nothing. durham is a kind of pathetic character. four years, i don t know how many millions of dollars, i don t know how many people, how many of his friends he hired in his office to do what? to issue of basically false report. spending money on a report that shows no wrongdoing. we knew this was never a legitim
i m pamela brown in washington. we re following two major stories on this sunday night. hurric hurricane fiona hammers ps puer rico and it could be days before the lights are back on. president biden pays tribute to queen elizabeth with final mourners in line to pay respects. tomorrow s funeral is hours away. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we began tonight with the latest on hurricane fiona. the storm has made landfall along the southwest coast there, puerto rico and officials say the entire island is already without power and the storm is causing catastrophic flooding. i want to turn to cnn laeyla santiago who is live. what are the conditions like where you are right now, leyla? reporter: we re on the forth eastern part of the island, capital san juan. still coming down, still rain, still wind. in the southern part of the island, the same if not more. the last time i talked to you, we talked about the critical patients, the hospitals and buildings that depend on power f
we all member the letter politico publisher the 2020 election that dismissed the hunter laptop story as a russian disinformation? by the way we said we all remember i don t include the president. [laughter] the letter was crafted right after they are posted published the piece on the laptop which hunter had dropped off at a computer repair shop and then abandoned it like it was his child. it is true. it s a baby with the stripper. [laughter] wrecks not that there s anything wrong with that. thirty-six not at all tyrus. oops, i know the feeling my parents did that with me at the highway rest stops. i made so many new friends. that joke makes no sense and i do not care. the hard drive containing tons of stuff concerning biden s business dealings as well as all sorts of sorted or in cats viewed romantic videos of hunter doing drugs and hookers. in not always in that order but miraculously this letter appeared to save jo s day and boy did it. the story was blacklisted by major