last year. how can people travel safely? what do you do if you want to change your plans? reporter: the rush home for the holidays is kicking into high gear. triple-a predicts more than 100 million people will take to the roads, sky, and other form of transportation over the christmas holiday. that is up more than 30% from last year. we are very excited to have the whole family back together again. reporter: airports bustling with 2 million passengers sunday but will the quickly spreading pt last-minute changes? i am very concerned because the flights are full. the lobby is full. the planes are full. reporter: he says as omicron cases go up, bookings go down. you can see in the numbers that the comfort and level of confidence in traveling is dropping but not as steep as we ve seen in 2020. reporter: the surge of cases scrambling a swath of americans christmas time
accountability? well, what you re seeing today and what you saw yesterday is a political exercise. this is really a washington ritual. you know, something terrible happened and someone must be called up to testify about it. because this is such a partisan moment in a way i think what you re hearing from secretary of state blinken is an even more partisan message aimed at democrats, and at the broad swath of americans who support biden s overall decision, even if they are uncertain about the execution of that. you know, in many ways, former president trump has been so loudly and his former advisers have been essentially trolling the biden team with outrageous claims as if they had nothing whatsoever to do with this. and in a way, i think that has opened up the possibility for secretary blinken to simply say, look, it s their fault. but set aside trump s often, frankly, usually baseless claims. why aren t those legitimate
and i don t think you re going to hear anything fundamentally different from the secretary of state than what you heard from president biden. erica and i were talking about this before the show. it raises questions whether real oversight exists. it s political theater, but do you have any genuine fact finding and solutions after the fact? that s a larger discussion on this drone strike, susan glasser. i mean, this we ll see what the pentagon investigation shows, but legitimate deep questions about whether this was a legitimate target, does this expose the weakness in the administration s over the horizon plan for counterterrorism in afghanistan going forward, trying to do this all from a distance? look, americans generation, after generation, have been sold on the false promise of war without casualties. and the truth is that casualties are on the ground in something like drone warfare and, of course, over the last two decades of u.s. warfare in afghanistan region, that s been th