they believe pete buttigieg. you know what they're doing? destroying the greatest artwork in civilization because they want you to know how important the climate is. >> it shows the destructive nature of our addiction to oil. >> what is worth more? art or life? we cannot afford new oil and gas. it's going to take everything we know and more. >> so groups like that, those thugs, those monitors, the stalinist mobs didn't appear out of nowhere. it's not organic. they were whipped into a frenzy by john kerry, nancy pelosi and pete buttigieg. that was their inspiration. they're destroying the things that have most valuable in our society, our art. the legacy of our civilization. you know what they haven't done? they haven't said a single word about al gore's personal gulfstream or john kerry on pete buttigieg. they're attacking art but not saying anything about the people that are actually destroying the climate? who know who isn't? black rock. the esg score that you hear about. >> john: you flights on private planes have no effect on an esg scor

>> richard: this is not even about pete buttigieg, let's be very clear. no, no, no, hold on 90% of flights have been canceled with one airline. a majority of flights canceled around the world is one airline. tso to blend this on the transportation secretary is not even the employees of the airlines. 90% -- i did not interrupt you. >> rachel: you are not answering what tyrus said. >> richard: 90% of the airline, the flights canceled in the united states today from southwest airlines because bad management, bad software and flight attendants you can't blame you can't link the flight attendants but the people in the corporate seeds of southwest airlines for canceling flights, period the end of story. pete buttigieg that southwest can't manage is ridiculous. >> rachel: but could as tyrus said, exactly, could they get buses just like they do for illegals? and most people? >> richard: sure, but this is capitalism and the airline cannot manage it, southwest airlines. >> rachel: good point. up next, liberal -- that's okay, up next liberal hollywood is sucking up

and according to nancy mace and so was pete buttigieg for four days. you know what people were doing? they were freezing in airports and they didn't have access to the luggage and see their families where they didn't have any support systems and they couldn't get rental cars or get out and southwest did nothing but blame it on the weather! but somehow all the other airlines figured out a way to get people from a to b and to their families. shame on them. give back $7.2 billion they got during covid. >> katie: subsidizing this meltdown to the tens of billions of dollars. >> tom: the government says what did you do with the covid money? you put it in your country. the government ruined the country in the airline business. now they have a goal to go to him now and i see joe biden complaining about the fees and the things and get the government totally out of it. and let me throw a ten per tantrum and they can deal with me. and then we can make the airlines responsible. if you don't like southwest flight again if they meant their ways, go back to southwest

and where's pete buttigieg? he is the secretary of state. we knew this storm would mac gel our airports and highways days before it hit. how did our secretary of transportation prepare? well, this is what he said last week there are things you can do check frequently with airline website. airlines have been offering waiving the change fees so if you want to try to beat the storm or if you can delay your travel a little bit until it clears you can do that definitely encourage people to look into their options there. >> rachel: he sounds more like a travel agent than the secretary of he had transportation. we don't want to delay our flights we want to see our family. the 25th still means something to us. it's jesus' birthday. we celebrate by being with our families and going to church. that never mattered to pete. remember last year? supply chains were a complete mess? many families were worried they wouldn't be able to get christmas gifts. pete buttigieg told everyone they're on their own. >> i think there has always been two kinds of christm

there are lawmakers, that were criticizing pete buttigieg for his response including ro k khanna who said bernie sanders and i called for buttigieg to implement fines on airlines are canceling flights. this mess with southwest could have been avoided. southwest says it has resumed full operations, showing 41 cancellations, 43 cancellations at the moment, drastic improvement for 2500 cancellations, executives promised to include airline operations but that will likely take years. in the short-term what we are looking at, those are expected to take a hit. executive's wouldn't venture a guess as to how much of a hit the third quarter might take but last time southwest had a mass of cancellations in october 2021 they canceled 1800 flights in one weekend. that cost the airline $75 million. this time, closer to 15,000 flights, 8 times, we will see how much this costs southwest. edward: the fourth quarter will really take a hit. we will be following this until it is sorted out. the left is calling out pete buttigieg over the southwest airlines fiasco as southwest says normal services are re

cheryl: going to be gone till after new year what do you make of pete buttigieg though? he didn't really make a statement i mean this storm, was last week to be clear here the transportation secretary remember runs faa to be clear oversees it finally makes a tweet i am going to be saying something very soon, okay. great, what he says kind of empty words size well is there going to be consequences. i mean seems really kind of -- failing at this job . >> this is the guy who when running for president had the answer to everything. of and now he is in charge of one of our nation's largest agencies, in charge of our transportation, and crickets, when he comes on television empty words, just threats of what we're going to do in the future you can say mr. secretary, what are you doing in the present? >> there are thousands of americans sleeping on the floor of our terminals nationwide some without medication. others missed christmas you are going to do a full investigation after the fact. why weren't these are industries stress tested before you to me by unions had been crying

pete buttigieg is in over his head. i think it's crystal clear. >> griff: thank you very much lauren simonetti happy new year. >> happy new year in florida. griff griff over to carley for more headlines. >> carley: going to begin with a deadly storm in buffalo. resident are still digging out. crews are struggling through small mountains of snow from the blizzard that killed at least 39 people. meanwhile police in a nearby suburb are trying to identify this hero he broke into a school shelter to kids and dogs trapped outside. good reason to break into a school there an ohio-based are a text is missing after traveling to mexico to visit his future wife. jose gutierrez's family fears the couple have been abducted. the family hasn't heard from jose in days after last hearing they went out to dinner, the couple have not been heard from or seen since that night. and ice skating is not allowed on the lincoln memorial reflecting poll that visitors are hitting the ice in unique ways. this guy on a bike ends up getting stuck, oh,

the american people, to your point, our suffering an pete buttigieg thing we are getting to the bottom of it. i guarantee all the ceos held in these airlines are going to make their bonuses this year while all this happens at the airports. it is sickening. >> ashley: the majority of them will get reimbursed and if they don't, that is a whole nother issue. that doesn't even matter. a reimbursement at this point is just kind of -- >> todd: humanist christmas. >> ashley: there is so much damage down that i don't know what would help make this better. i can guarantee a lot of people flying southwest or tried to fly southwest this weekend here and right now they will never go with them again. it is more or less just bite the bullet, pay the higher price. i know there has been times, it will not fly united. i just booked a southwest flight so this makes me nervous. and i know what is making a lot of other people nervous too. because you rely on these airlines. there is another question, was there a pilot issue order staffing shortages? coupled with the weather, and you have a recipe for disa

but pete buttigieg it serves him. edward: i want to ask but the poll, fox news recent polling comes out. 23% of people feel like 2022 was a good year for the president. if you ask the administration it was a fantastic year. you heard jacqui heinrich lay out all the things president believe hes done. 23% say good year for americans. is the president out of the touch? >> the fact he is vacationing in the cared bean signing over $2 trillion of our money is the main issue. biden says inflation is abating. it is three times the benchmark what the fed wants. the federal reserve made very clearth not longer enabling this madness. can you take on an extra $10 in debt when interest rates artificially kept at zero, when the fed is doing massive quantitative easing experiment? sure. that experiment is done. fed shrinking money supply 1% first time in modern history, right? interest rates almost at 5%. they are going to stay there the fed repredicts interest rates in the long term will be higher than they were any period of that

cheryl casone is here. >> cheryl: facing year of flight cancel a recollection, pete buttigieg has been flying private. mayor pete took 18 flights, nevada, florida, ohio, new hampshire. faa charges about $5000 per hour for these flights as he pushes against climate change. out of work wife coal miner joined you last hour. >> they say do as i say and not as i do. with climate change warrior type stuff he's a part of and going to use a private plane to fly to events, it is total hypocrisy. >> secretary pete buttigieg travels by commercial airline, however there are cases where it is more efficient for the second to fly on nine seater plane than on the flights. tom price, remember she was criticized and he resigned after outrage over his private travel. >> carley: i don't expect a resignation here. i love your and/or -- >> todd: they wrote that, and/or, take away and and go with or and it is efficiency, not -- >> carley: twitter files, latest installment. >> cheryl: number five, it shows twitter staffers found former president trump did not violate policy and was banned anyway. january 8,

and pete buttigieg remained engaged on emerging issues. we are all entitled to vacation, but they were sometimes circumstances dictate you can't take it regardless of the excuse. i love how they say, it was all planned. there are things planned where life intervenes and you need to cancel long plans. plans change, especially when you are a cabinet member literally in charge of the free flow of goods and people throughout the nation. maybe you go back to portugal at a different time. >> carley: he's not having a good p.r. because reported on 18 taxpayer chat flights he took with climate change and out in portugal during rail strike negotiations. i have a conspiracy theory to share with you. >> todd: please. >> carley: president biden is making queries running for president again. could somebody -- >> todd: interesting. >> carley: could someone lick these to undercut his chances? i don't know, just a thought. >> todd: you think politics is that dirty? you are right. >> carley: there are perks and drawbacks to every job. the drawback to being

"the wall street journal" has an editorial and pete buttigieg in air traffic controller? here is what they say the meltdown this southwest is one for the business record books. and they will pay a price for months, years to damaged reputation. the only worst result is passengers to put transportation secretary pete buttigieg in charge of this. >> mark: yeah, we have talked about this before. he's not qualified for this position. he has a mayor and all due respect to mayors, they fix potholes, move stop signs and make sure the snowplows come out. they are not dealing with the complex logistics of railroads and airlines. it is not what they do. from my understanding the whole southwest situation boils down to the staffing situation. most airlines use this hub and spoke system where staff is based out of denver and they go to new york and always come back to that. where as with southwest, they go from .2. to point. if you miss one point to the next, it screws everything up. it is like the domino effect so they have no room for error and that seems to be the root of the issue

fears calls for the airline and transportation secretary pete buttigieg to be held accountable congresswoman nancy mason on what needs to happen now. the worst year for market since the financial crisis of 2018. i'm asking investment strategist how to position your portfolio going into 2023 in a real estate reckoning what you need to know before you buy or sell a home in the year to come. but first southwest trying to resume a full flight schedule and dig out from the mess after canceling 15000 flights. passengers have finally made it home are trying to find and recover their luggage critics are slamming southwest outdated systems and communication pilot say this did not come as a surprise. >> all the employees doing everything we can at the end of the day southwest was not prepared and this is a decade in the making we sounded alarm bells we've tried to get them to change process but it's a combination of process outdated technology and infrastructure. >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg had this to say. >> their system has completely melted down and i'll make clear our department wi

so pete buttigieg is in way over his head. he talks tough but he is not going to do anything. >> we have never seen a situation, at least not on my watch, with this volume of disruption, so this is going to take an extraordinary level of effort by southwest and we will mount an extraordinary effort to make sure that they are meeting their obligations. >> rachel: pete has no experience. a couple years ago he was a mayor in indiana. and now he is in charge of all of americaens airports. buttigieg knew this was come and did he nothing. four months ago a dozen attorney generals wrote to congress how pete buttigieg wasn't doing enough. they warned that our airline infrastructure was crumbling and that pete wasn't doing anything about it. the state a.g.'s want the power to actually do something to protect customers instead of waiting on pete quote they said state attorney generals have little to know authority to hold airlines accountable for unacceptable behavioral to. allows airlines to mistreat customers and leaves customers with

that's not the attitude of today's democratic party of which pete buttigieg wants to be a leader in. if these cabinet positions are supposed to be stepping stones to higher office this one has become more like a lead balloon. >> julie: a democrat from california khanna is putting the fire under buttigieg's feet. he said nearly six months ago bernie sanders and i called for buttigieg to implement fines and penalties on airlines for canceling flights. why were these recommendations not followed? this mess with southwest could have been avoided. we need bold action. do you agree buttigieg has dropped the ball? >> julie, there are more questions than answers in this week of a disaster for southwest airlines. the department of transportation has leveled millions of dollars in fines previous to the holiday season, secured $6 hundred million in reimbursement under buttigieg's leadership. you'll see congressman call the southwest airlines leadership before congress. there are questions about the $50 billion that the american taxpayers gave to the airline industry including $7 billion for sou

tweeting nearly six months ago, bernie sanders and i called for pete buttigieg to implement fines and penalties on airlines for canceling flights. why were these recommendations not followed and this mess with southwest could have been avoided. executives have promised to improve the airline's operations but, ash, that will likely take year ss -- years so in the short term, they're looking at executives taking a major hit and some estimates in the loss of 10%. ashley: wow. yeah, boy, it's a lot to recover from for sure. lydia, you've been following it all the way through. thank you so much for that. we have breaking news for you. a source telling fox news a suspect has been taken into custody in connection to those four university of idaho students who were stabbed and killed last month. almost six weeks ago. police we are told are going to be holding a news conference at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. watch that here on fox business. a major, major development in that case. now let's take a look at dow 30 stocks if we can and get a sense of the mood and this will tell us all we need to know

pete buttigieg posted a video suggesting he was at a u.s. airport. it is okay. >> the summer too many flights have been delayed or canceled so today the dot is launching the airline customer service dashboard. for the first time you can go to website and compare airline practices. maria: that is good. so pete buttigieg was mia when we had a massive supply chain crisis. remember that. he was taking parental leave for the baby. now we have a major real strike negotiation which biden claims he led and made a whole press conference to believe it was one done and he had to get congress to push it and jam it down the throats. now we find out he was in portugal, he is a transportation secretary. >> he seems to have a lot of problems with transportation related things being on planes and out of the country. we are all entitled to any vacation you're one of the very few select people who has a direct power to influence the course of our country. i understand you had a long planned vacation. but at the end of the day plans change, things come up you might need

you brought up they are pete buttigieg, secretary pete buttigieg and he sang all the right things at the right time and we will come down hard on southwest. yeah, it is southwest bolt. they can't get the plane where the pilot is where the crew is in it is definitely there faults but why didn't he prevent this from happening? i do not care that he goes on vacation but i do care when there is a crisis and at the height of it, he decided to go on maternity leave and i do care when there is issues with the rail strike, he flies over to portugal. now, it seems a little bit late. $7 billion went to this airline. >> cheryl: a half a billion dollars and that is our taxpayer money to be clear, everybody. but you know what, joey, i know you fly a lot, i fly a lot. it is not just the passenger suffering. there is this huge facebook by southwest pilot and he talked about the fact they can't get a hold of their schedulers. they couldn't get their own hotel rooms appear there is actually flight crews and the airport sleeping with the passengers. the gate agents are now in tears because they were b

i wish we would have spoken up and pete buttigieg would have spoken earlier. we are now five days into this thing. had i not had an extra car in d.c. i kids might not even be home today. they were able to drive home with family late christmas night. most people were not that lucky. they are still stranded. i don't know how some of these folks will be able to pay for a hotel for the next seven days until they can get out of there. we were told for days but that clearly is not happening right now. people are not getting home at this juncture five days end. >> joey: i think i saw on twitter one of your children celebrated 16th birthday sewed not just a christmas trip at a birthday trip. i have a 13-year-old myself. i don't know about your 16-year-old but my 13-year-old, the house has ordered immediate removal from tiktok. what is your take on that? >> we definitely want to look into tiktok and i know folks want to hold hearings on it to find out how the chinese communist party might be using it to spy on americans. my 13-year-old, i mentioned yesterday i was goin

he also said he's been in touch with the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg. the secretary told cbs news the situation is unacceptable. >> well, i want passengers to know that this department has their back, that we are going to be holding the airline accountable for the way that they are treating passengers. >> reporter: the senate commerce committee says it will probe the causes of the disruption and the impact on consumers. now, the secretary of transportation says that they're watching to make sure southwest airlines provides passengers with appropriate and promised compensation, things like paying for hotels or for meals as folks are stranded for days. wendy, back to you. >> a lot of frustrated travelers. >> reporter: yeah. >> jarred hill in new york, thank you. >> reporter: of course. >>> western new york is still reeling from a deadly blizzard. at least 32 people in the region have died from the storm. up to 52 inches of snow fell over four days in buffalo paralyzing the city, which remains in a state of emergency. state police are using armored vehicle

what amazes me, pete buttigieg spend about $300,000 on private gentlemen travel. bernie sanders, 18,000. you have elizabeth warren 60,000. >> harold: who would you rather fly with those three? >> jeanine: known of them. >> greg: this guy is a lot younger than you are flying private and you're like almost 5 -- oh. >> jesse: almost 50? >> you experienced the joys of flying private. he's like throw 0 something. >> i'msiding with mayor pete. these airports are crime scenes. have you seen sammy? >> greg: sprinting, stealing. >> jesse: probably trying not to get his bags stolen. >> greg: true. >> dana: from his colleague. >> greg: yes. no one flies with sam right now. exactly. all right. one more thing is up next. >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust safelite. this couple was headed to the farmers market... when they got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service the way you need it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ for back pa

well, we know the secretary of transportation pete buttigieg overseas the airports and pete's husband just happens to be good friends with sticky fingers. >> sam's pronouns are they and them and there you are. welcome. >> hello, darling. wow, i want this conversation to go on and on. >> sometimes we have to look at our friends and say i love you so much and if you ever want to talk to me about anything if you are ever feeling down you can call me any time of day. >> so did sammy call chasten and pete when he was down and ask him to shut it down? hey, pete, chasten, it's sammy, going to be some surveillance footage of me from airports lifting vera bradleys. i was stealing bags like i stole your heart. but, to be nice if you guys could make sure that never got out. i mean mayor pete has a lot of balls in the air because he is facing his own flying scandal. this man of the people, mayor pete, who couldn't afford a d.c. town house and a nanny is flying private more than floyd mayweather. unbelievable. on your dime our next guest is no stranger to getting surveillance videos brian claypool

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pete buttigieg sits as the secretary of transportation. he couldn't fill the potholes in south bend, indiana but now he's elevated to investigate southwest? >> he checks a box. we know why pete is there. he checks a box. he's not there for his competence. he's not really running transportation. the unelected bureaucrats are. the real question for the american people -- it's dawning on them, sean, as this country starts to fracture and fall apart, something is very wrong. i don't think that they have had the clear revelation yet of what is taking place in the administrative state and the elites don't care for them, view them as their atms and that's about it. when it dawns on enough of the american people that this is taking place, they will rise up and say we're going to affect political change. the political power to be in that position to break apart the administrative state and drawn the swamp and restore the public. but you won't have it until enough of the american people wake up. >> john: when i served in politics, i was in congress

in just moments, i go one-on-one with transportation secretary pete buttigieg to get answers and find out what all those passengers are now owed. >>> also breaking tonight, more bodies found. the longest blizzard in buffalo history. military police called in. many roads still closed. the incredible efforts to move cars deserted. what our team found as they trekked through a city cut off by snow. >>> just in, the major move from the supreme court on immigration. the high court keeping title 42 in effect for now. what that means for the surge at the border. shelters full. migrant families forced to sleep in the cold. thousands more in tents, waiting to cross, desperate for food and warmth. >>> coming clean. incoming congressman george santos who lied on his resume. will he face consequences when he gets to washington? >>> inside the fight against medical misinformation and children. what you need to know. >>> and riding it out. the stories of strangers surviving a historic snowstorm and finding time to help while trying to stay warm. it's inspiring america. >> announcer: this is "nbc ni

in just moments, i go one-on-one with transportation secretary pete buttigieg to get answers and find out what all those passengers are now owed >>> also breaking tonight, more bodies found. the longest blizzard in buffalo history military police called in many roads still closed the incredible efforts to move cars deserted. what our team found as they trekked through a city cut off by snow >>> just in, the major move from the supreme court on immigration the high court keeping title 42 in effect for now. what that means for the surge at the border shelters full. migrant families forced to sleep in the cold thousands more in tents waiting to cross, desperate for food and warmth. >>> coming clean - incoming congressman george santos, who lied on his resume will he face consequences when he gets to washington >>> inside the fight against medical misinformation and children what you need to know. >>> and riding it out. the stories of strangers surviving a historic snowstorm and finding time to help while trying to stay warm it's inspiring america. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news"

recede in background pete buttigieg doing absolutely nothing no consequences for this ultimatum at the end of the day -- >> so much excitement when he came in, wedding on ticket before he came transportation secretary, young guy, and a disappointment running faa you are running faa during one of the biggest disasters airline industry has seen if decades, 50 year storm, and you are mia, just i mean, i don't even know what to say. >> i talk about it in my book one xaept called all president's men and women people within this administration in jobs they have no business being in, pete buttigieg should not be transportation secretary to your point ran southbend a small bus station regional airport a couple trains that go in and out doesn't know anything about running one of the biggest entities in government jennifer indian hom governor michigan cnn, pundit energy secretary? how did that happen many positions even kamala harris as vice president all thank yous or check off box instead of people the most competent, like fedex maybe should be running transparence, and not the folks we have s

pete buttigieg never will. ashley: yeah, you see just doesn't exactly inspire confidence, but i'm going to move on, sean to this story. a new poll found that 47% of americans say that u.s. influence on the world stage has grown weaker in recent years. look at that. just 19% say it's actually gotten stronger and i question the 19%. why do you think our influence is declining, sean? >> i think you've seen a weak american economy and you've seen american leadership focus on things that don't work, whether it's critical race theory or transgenderrism and these woke auditory systemsologists and look at school -- ideologies and school systems teaching garage to our kids and my daughter went to the university of chicago, a great school, and i saw what she was learning and what you put in is what you get out and they're putting in garbage to these young kids. you know, i think you put that all together and you look at who's actually working for this administration. again, they're more concerned about what the color of

i look at this and say people like pete buttigieg are never going to take a step back and reflect on this, because they are in power. they continue to get votes. people support them. as a result of that, it's all most likely behavior is being rewarded. that's unfortunate, because hard work used to be rewarded in this country. >> kennedy: and he wasn't even the one who ended the strike, or averted it, in the first place. that had to go to the white house in congress. >> harris: conveniently before the midterm elections the president promised that was going to happen. he broke that promise and had to do a really stinky deal for the union. republicans were willing to meet democrats halfway between two weeks paid leave, family leave, to one week. so buttigieg inserts himself back in and does that horrible deal for the people who actually helped get them elected. on the point of transparency, so he's at an airport going to portugal. just be transparent about it. could you have taken a train to get to some point on your way -- i mean, you can't take a train to portugal, obviously, but you

plus pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary is slammed for flying around the u.s. on private airplanes paid for by you, by taxpayers in order to lecture americans about climate change when he could skype or zoom. the white house today tries to downplay the largest caravan in history, crossing the u.s. border right now as the white house gets ready did of trump's title 42 border policy. that is happening next week. biden's allies, they have a new attack plan. they will try to get the media to intimidate gop witnesses even gop lawmakers with personal attack stories on them to undercut upcoming house probes into the biden family cashing in on joe biden's government job. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. look at your money. stocks jumping after coming off the worst week since september. markets are eyeing a new read on inflation. it is coming out tomorrow for november as the fed kicks off its meeting with an expected 7th fed rate hike penciled in for wednesday. it will come in half a point that is the exp

lawmakers criticizing transportation secretary pete buttigieg after southwest airlines meltdown last weekend. two senior democrats insist he should have taken action to prevent the crisis. >> alicia: more on the suspect now in custody and accused of killing four idaho college students. former fbi special agent jonathan gilliam joins us next. live at monroe county pennsylvania, the suspect a in the gruesome murder is in custody following a seven weeks manhunt. bryan kohberger was located more than 2500 miles from the idaho crime scene in scranton. our investigators finally overnight able to crack the case? jonathan gilliam, former fbi special agent. thank you for being with us. let's break down we know about the suspect. male, 28 years old, we've got a mug shot. i don't know if we can put it up on the screen again for our viewers at home. currently a phd student, no known connection at least right now publicly to the students he is believed potentially to have murdered. what do you make of what they are learning? >> well, i think first off, he does fit the profile for what most people

transportation secretary pete booted the budg pete buttigieg a strike earlier this year. the transportation department said the trips banned august 29th through labor day and pete buttigieg was traveling on personal time but remained engaged on urgent issues. but a week before his trip, amtrak begin canceling its long-distance trips over fears that the impending strike. the white house them got involved in a tentative deal for the catastrophic shutdown announced the week pete buttigieg got back. well, he may be a good boy most days, but not in this instance. mischievous dog with getting tangled up in a string of christmas lights. the owner of the 2-year-old pup posted this video that he actually took last christmas, this is apparently an annual tradition for the bull terrier who get super excited when the tree gets decorated. those are your headlines. >> ainsley: poor thing. >> imagine coming home and finding that. >> steve: last year when i was driving home, there was a great, big deer with great big antlers on my street and had christmas lights. >> ainsley: get out! >>

i don't think they have any choice at this point whether or not pete buttigieg and the d.o.t. decides to impose legal sanctions or obligations, this is not something that southwest can afford to have ever happen again. so they're going to have to do that. as your costs rise, it certainly is logical to expect fares to rise somewhat. but they also are going to be governed by the marketplace. since their competitors have better systems in place already those airlines aren't going to face increased cost. so southwest are going to have to deal with the fact that their costs are rising faster than their competitors are. >> scott mason, you helped us understand what's going on. thank you for your time. >> my pleasure. >>> also this morning, thousands of migrants are now facing potentially months of more uncertainty after the supreme court's decision that the border restriction, title 42, is going to remain in effect for now. it was a brief unsigned order from the justices yesterday that halted a trial judge's ruling that would have lifted the measure. this is the measure that allows

i know secretary pete buttigieg was on earlier. i talked to him about air traffic control. that's one of the issues but the issue is the faa does an amazing job and they jump through hoops to keep the air traffic control system running. you have controllers in the united states, we had 30 years ago, we have tripled the number of operations. that means there is a system on the very edge which really happened with the faa, they have been asked to do so much more, doing state launches and drones and certification work without an increase in their budget at the same time so those resources come out of day today operations. what we need to do as i told the secretary yesterday when we spoke is work in the next authorization bill to get the air traffic control system staffed. .. it's nobody's fault that we are here but we are women are and we should work together to really get the faa resourced appropriately and to say that we have the same number of controllers, fewer controllers today than 30 years ago doesn't pass the smell test for anyone i don't think. >> so looking ahead wha

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president biden left it to the transportation secretary pete buttigieg to do what he could but as we have seen the feds were really limited with what they could do. they couldn't go in and get people off the floor of the airport and to their final destination. it was up to southwest ultimately but the story is not over because they're going to be writing some big checks when the fines come down in the new year. back to you. >> katie: all right peter thank you very much. >> joey: thanks peter. >> katie: when something goes wrong on a flight or there's a norovirus outbreak on the crews and they try to give you a voucher for another cruise? i want money. we'll see if they give free flights or write some checks. >> griff: i think really the question now is, so how do you hold them accountable? how do you make this, the airlines pay if you will and of course we have all the progressive democrats piling on, particularly buttigieg but in the last hour we talked to fox business's lauren simonetti about really that question and here's what she had to say. >> the culprit here is the internal s

. >> todd: not like the democratic bench will lower that number, pete buttigieg, we did a thing over him in the last hour, he shouldn't be president. take a look at kamala lack of track record and inability to speak herself and 42% of americans strongly approve of president joe biden and economy part and parcel of what people are worried about. inflation, joe biden has done exact opposite what he needs to do for that. the range you mention is where most ceos lie, you haven't lost too much energy from youth, 25 year old will be more energetic than a 55 year old, but up to the 65 year range you have balance of not lost energy, you have life experience to be a ceo and run something. most candidates we like typically are in that range. desantis is younger than me by a few months and the republican bench is strong and they are younger. the fact of the matter is people want new blood throughout politics on both sides of the aisle, not just the presidency, but the halls of congress, as well. >> ashley: americans will take a risk with new blood if they think it will benefit them even just a

secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. mr. secretary, thank you so much for being here and joining us. no doubt about it, we are seeing incredible scenes just play out acros the country. tell us, do you see this as a meltdown? >> yes, you know, that word gets thrown around a lot sometimes in coverage of travel disruptions, but in this case it's the only word i can think of to describe what's happening at southwest airlines. and we are past the point where they could say that this is a weather-driven issue. don't get me wrong, all of this began with that severe storm we saw winter weather affecting the country and severely disrupting all airlines. our entire aviation system. but as of today, the rest of the aviation system is down to a rate of about 4% of flights being canceled. and as you reported, we're north of 60% right now when it comes to southwest. so what this indicates is a system failure, and they need to make sure that these stranded passengers get to where they need to go and that they're provided adequate compensat

. >> congressman, pete buttigieg -- your thoughts here. >> i think, secretary buttigieg is wafer over his league he is a small city mayor just checked right boxes got job from biden administration, has been a -- pretty much a disaster also there at department of transportation, and so, you know i don't believe much of what biden administration says whether president or any secretaries, obviously, didn't do enough southwest air also is responsible for most cancellations. we do need to hold them accountable have hearings as to what happened make sure never happens again, i doubt secretary buttigieg will be able to do anything about it. >> let me follow up on that then obviously, january 3, the new congress sworn in republicans take control of the house i want you to listen to a part of my interview with vice president of the pilots association at southwest air also i asked him this is yesterday, if anybody from the company had reached how the to the pilots group at all, congressman listen to this. >> no one reached out to us to inform us what is going on even recovery plan left in the d

joining us now to discuss transportation secretary pete buttigieg. the bill just passed the senate despite objections from members of both parties who wanted paid sick leave to be included. why are you okay passing a deal that does not guarantee paid sick leave for these union workers? >> first of all, the importance of the deal is that a rail shut down is being avoided. if that were to happen we would have seen hundreds of thousands of american workers laid off, energy prices shooting up once refineries were unable to continue operating. issues getting chlorine to water treatment plants. auto industry factories getting shut down within hours, if not days of that happening. what we have been able to avoid is a major blow to workers, farms, families across country. not everybody got what they wanted in this deal, but what was enacted is something that mirrors what was reached in the tentative agreement at the negotiating table between union leaders and railroad companies. what that includes is a 24% pay increase for railroad workers. they are essentia

pete buttigieg is calling for refunds after the airline grounded nearly 16,000 flights since friday. >> tox team coverage starts right now with lydia hu on the warning signs, months before this meltdown. first to mike tobin in chicago. what are folks telling you there today? >> well, what we're hearing from southwest executives, we may be nearing the end of this particularly ugly chapter in southwest airlines history. this as southwest executives have announced a return to normal operations tomorrow promising minimal disruptions, this is after southwest airlines cancelled 2/3s of its normal flight operations to try to get crew and aircraft back in to positions where they can resume this normal schedule. if you look at flight cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2,400, almost 2,500 flights will be cancelled across all airlines. 2, 300 plus of them belong to southwest airlines today. if you look forward to tomorrow, they drop to 39 flight cancellations for southwest. still, you've got management at southwest airlines apologizing for this terrible mess. >> my personal apol

what is pete buttigieg going to do besides hold a press conference? this is one thing that i want to make clear. nina turner and beth van dyne are correct on pete buttigieg. this is what happens. you had democrats and the left spend millions against people like me in swing districts that want to hold the administration accountable, that want to holding asies accountable so republicans can't hold them accountable. it's important to support candidates like myself and beth van duyne. go to nancymace.org to hold the administration accountable when we're in the majority. >> you have your work load ahead of you. there's certainly is no excuse for the amount of money that these -- this administration has been given. but how they spent it, what they've done and how they've done it, go get them. next week you'll actually have the gavels in hand. thanks for joining us on "hannity." nancy mace and beth van duyne. thank you. without a doubt, if a republican jetted off during a crisis, they would be ex-scorated. but not joe biden. the very liberal associated press

buttigieg of weakening the manliness of american cars. >> but democrats, like pete buttigieg, want to emasculate the way we drive-- ( laughs ) --and force all of you to rely on electric vehicles. >> i literally don't even understand what that means. i mean, my sense of manhood is not connected to whether my vehicle is fueled by gasoline or whether it's fueled by electricity. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> are you looking for a car that won't emasculate you? a car that lets people know you're 100% dude, and not some namby-pamby who is trying to save the earth? introducing the pontiac schvantz

for her to say that and point out the absolute unqualified status pete buttigieg to handle a situation like this is very telling. >> ashley: right, of course it will be on the transportation secretary to contact the corporations but i also read the investment was a huge problem and clearly not a weather issue anymore. but you have employees saying not being able to communicate, southwest airlines workers think they could not. they had the the planes ready to go. but they didn't have the staff, the pilots but once again we have been talking about this all year long from 2021 and 22022 here. i think it was also a staffing issue. it could have been a pilot issue. we have been talking about this and nobody is fixing this but it came to a boiling point and it is a huge issue and a huge problem. i just wonder how they will fix it because as we said in the intro, they got $7 billion bailout spirit i understand they have to keep paying their employees. keep paying their health insurance, but you have to allocate that money a little bit different in preparation of t this. if you're's phone syst

." ♪ ♪ >>> tonight, transportation secretary pete buttigieg tells me the biden administration will hold southwest airlines accountable for the meltdown in its operations that has left thousands of flights canceled and thousands of passengers stranded. gabe, what is the situation there right now? >> reporter: wolf, thousands of travelers are still stranded. the lines to rebook here in baltimore have been more than three hours long at times today. the wait to reach customer service has been longer for many customers. some are literally sleeping here at the airport, just trying to get home. the meltdown at southwest airlines just gets worse. >> it's a total you know what show here. >> reporter: southwest canceling more than 2500 flights on tuesday. more than 85% of all u.s. cancellations. and they have already canceled nearly the same total for tomorrow. admitting this could go on for days. thousands of passengers stranded at airports, still hoping to see family, are struggling to get home. >> they said keep checking back, but probably won't be anything until saturday. >> reporter: 72-year

secretary of transportation pete buttigieg is watching this. let's take a look at what he has to say. >> the meltdown is the right word. this is an unacceptable situation. the bottom line is the deviation system has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of the storm going into friday of last week. as of today as i'm looking at the different airlines, most of them are in the low, single digits in terms of cancellation rates averaging about 5% for all of the other airports. first, southwest appears to be north of 70%. so, there is just a really has completely melted down. and i made it clear her department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers both to get them through this situation and to make sure this can't happen again. >> griff: how? how is the answer. you know my yesterday, we got an apology from southwest ceo bob jordan, which listen to this, and then i have a story to tell you. >> truly, i am sorry. here is why this giant puzzle is taking several days to solve. southwest is the largest carrie

pete buttigieg is bearing down really on the airline making sure that customers know their rights to meal vouchers, refunds and hotel accommodations and that the company is aware of the consequences headed their way if they don't fulfill those obligations. >> we have enforcements tools that we've used this year. we saw a number of airlines that had cancellations. they weren't taking good care of their passengers through enforcement actions we've been able to help hundreds of thousands of passengers their money back to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. we're also in a position to use enforcement power and fines to hold airlines to the things that they have now committed to us. >> buttigieg is saying that whatever airlines have put in writtening as far as their commitments to customer goes, the department of transportation can enforce that and make them hold up to that commitment. southwest has tried to explain what happened and ensure its customers that they hope things will be back on track by next week. meantime, members of congress are really questioning past bailouts to

secretary of transportation pete buttigieg said he'll have more to say about this at some point today. meanwhile, those who are stuck at airports are talking to us already. >> it interrupts our whole plans trying to get to gambia, west africa. she is going with her mom and sisters. so if she misses this one, you know, it is going to be -- not a good day for us. >> reporter: how frustrating is it? >> it is frustrating. it's life. you know, things don't always go as planned. so we just, you know, camp down and try to solve the problem. >> reporter: southwest has issued an apology and also explain they've experienced problems connecting flight crews to their scheduled aircraft. they maintain this is not a staffing issue but rather a scheduling issue brought on by the winter weather. we do want to share some good images with you, things we have found in the face of frustration. some people were showing appreciation. they shared hugs we caught between a passenger and employee who apparently helped get her booked to get out of here to get to somewhere. it has been tough on employees and tra