hi there i'm brianna keilar. wolf has the day off. it is 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 9:00 p.m. in moscow and 2:30 a.m. thursday in pyongyang. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. it is deadline day in the russia investigation. a top lawmaker is demanding details about anti-trump text messages from an fbi agent who was removed from the russia probe. what's next on the agenda for president trump after tax reform? he's pushing for a big infrastructure bill. some leaders in his party have

different ideas what to do next. and when harry met obama. the prince and the 44th president sitting down for an interview. the questions were fast. but mostly fun during the lightning round. check this out. >> harry or william? >> william right now. >> "titanic" or "the bodyguard"? >> "titanic." >> "suits" or "the good wife"? >> "suits," obviously. >> great, great answer. cigarettes or gum? >> gum now, baby. >> gum. white house or buckingham palace? >> white house just because buckingham palace looks like it would take a really long time to mow. >> okay, fair enough. >> a lot of upkeep. >> a lot of upkeep at the white house, as well. up first, another day, another deadline in the russia investigation. the senate judiciary chairman is demanding details about anti-trump text messages between an fbi agent and fbi attorney. republican senator chuck grassley wants answers today.

justice correspondent jessica schneider here for giving us more details. a growing number of republicans are alleging bias in the special counsel robert mueller's investigation. >> right, brianna. that's the rallying cry of republicans since the anti-trump messages were disclosed. rod rosenstein faced questioning on that subject when he testified before the house judiciary committee in mid-december. it was then at the pushed back saying political viewpoints aren't the same as political bias and mere viewpoints don't necessarily impact agents' work on investigations all relating to the peter strzok text messages. committee chairman chuck grassley isn't taking that answer alone. he sent a detailed demand to rosenstein asking for extensive records about those text messages including things like when they were sent, exactly what they meant. so that deadline for rosenstein to respond is today. the department of justice

spokeswoman tells meese they are working with the senate judiciary committee but declined to comment further. the president has referred to the fbi as "in tatters," and repeatedly called the russia probe a witch hunt. peter strzok sent it the anti-trump text messages during the campaign and he was part of the russia probe till he was removed this summer. one republican today says while he defending the fbi, it does need to be scrutinized. >> in my almost decade serving in the intelligence community, i had the awesome opportunity to serve shoulder to shoulder with a lot of real patriots in the fbi. and so i have full trust in the bureau, but one of the things we should be doing in congress is fulfilling our oversight role and making sure the right trade craft is being used. this is something that we have to make sure and ensure that the people that are law enforcement,

federal law enforcement and intelligence communities are protecting, that they can trust that these institutions are doing things the way they're supposed to be doing. >> and congressman hurd spent about nine years with the cia as an operations officer. the department of justice also has the inspector general looking into the handling of the clinton e-mail server investigation at the fbi. rosenstein has said that should suffice for now. of course, republicans as part of that are calling for a second special counsel. so the criticism does not end. we see it continues even now and probably will till 201. >> may get louder. thank you so much for that report. the president plans to kick off the in you year with a push on infrastructure. a plan he says will be, quote unquote, easy to get passed because everyone wants it. is that exactly the truth here? let's bringing in ryan nobles who is live in west palm beach near president trump's mar-a-lago estate. ryan, tell us what we know about the proposal and also whether

it's going to be as easy as the president is saying it will be. >> as we know, nothing is as easy as presidents make it out to be in washington. highway there are democrats who have interest in infrastructure upgrades and federal investment in infrastructure, there probably aren't as many fiscal hawks on the republican side who would like to see a bill like this pushed through. it will require bipartisan support. this is what we know about the plan. we know the president plans to unveil it sometime in mid-january. it will be the focus of his state of the union address. he's looking rights now at somewhere in the range of $200 billion in investments in infrastructure upgrades. this was a campaign promise. on the campaign, he prosed as much as $1 trillion in investments. the white house is hoping the $200 billion buy-in by the federal government will lead to investments at state and local governments adding as much as

$800 billion across the country. right before he came to florida, the president talked about his priorities for 2018 and infrastructure was one of the things he specifically talked about. take a listen to what the president said. >> i do believe we're going to have a lot of bipartisan work done. maybe we start with infrastructure because i really believe infrastructure can be bipartisan. infrastructure is by far the easiest. people want it. republicans and democrats. we'll have tremendous democrat support on infrastructure as you know. i could have starred with infrastructure. i actually wanted to save the easy one for the one down the road. >> so the easy one is how he's calling this. but the question is, there's a cold political cue lus for democrats, do they want to get involved in a bar gin with donald trump that could be a big victory for him especially when they feel they've got a very good chance of taking back the congress in november. >> ryan nobles in west palm

beach, thank you. as republican criticism of the russia investigation gross louder a gop congressman is calling for a "purge" at the fbi and justice department. francis rooney of florida denies he's trying to undermine the agencies. >> i don't want to discredit them. i would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it and say look, we've got a lot of great agents and great lawyers here. those are the people i want the american people to see and know good, would being done, not the people who are kind of the deep state." >> congressman rooney joins us live from naples, florida. you say there and thank you for being with us during this holiday week. i appreciate it. a lot of people are spending time with their families. we're so glad you're spending time with us. you say you're not trying to discredit the fbi or justice department. i want to talk to you about why you have criticism of them, but first, are you sure you want to be throwing a word like purge

around? >> well, it might be a pretty strong word. i'm not maybe the most nuanced political person in the world coming from a career in business. i'm pretty frustrated all the things that have come out by the orr and what may or may not have take taken in the deputy general's mccabe. >> strzok, mueller removed strzok. orr was demoted. so what's the evidence, what's the evidence then that bias impact this had investigation when the very data points you're putting there actually, action has been taken against those individuals. >> as an american citizen, i'm nervous and discontent that people would have those kinds of lack of impartiality and bad animus as displayed in those e-mails. if they would have tried to use that is dossier to discredit the campaign, i think that's going beyond just having political

views. i hold the fbi and department of justice in very high esteem. >> where is the evidence that happened that bias infiltrated this investigation? do you have some knowledge we don't have? we're not seeing that. >> no, no, i i'm not saying it necessarily influenced the investigation. but they certainly were trying to impede donald trump. that's what the guy said this those e-mails. i don't know that someone in the fbi and doj ought to be doing that kind of stuff with all the power and authority they have over american citizens. >> that was your take away from the e-mails? are you quoting the e-mails? >> yeah, i read the article probably the same ones you have where they talked about having insurance against the election of donald trump and we have to stop him at all costs and what was referred to some conversation that was referred to and deputy attorney general mccabe's office. i wonder what that was all about. i hope the house oversight committee can get to the bottom of it. >> we don't know what that was

all about and we don't have evidence this infiltrated. why if there's no evidence this has infiltrated this investigation would you be calling for a purge which is a word, an action more closely associated with authortarian governments than democratic ones like the one you're a part of it. >> if you've got 2% bad apples like this strzok guy and orr, it's incumbent -- >> again, one removed one demoted. >> he's demoted but still has a lot of authority in the other job he has. he's still just as lacks impash alt and is very aggressive in his views. >> but there's no evidence that has impacted the work. >> we don't know what the guy might have been able to impact in his great amount of authority he has as an fbi agent. i worry about people that have

authority over american citizens' lives saying the kind of things he put in that e-mail. >> do you worry about ma lining the agency as a whole when we're talking about the men and women working very hard to keep americans like you, like me safe? we're talking about the organization that foiled a terrorist attack, a terrorist plot recently in san francisco. do you worry about the effects of that? >> well, what i worry about is the debilitating impact of people like strzok and possibly mccabe on the institution itself and on the importance that institution has in our country. >> what do you think republicanss would have said if rewind to the obama administration. if democrats were going after the fbi the way you and some of your gop colleagues have been going after the fbi and the doj? it seems there would have been tremendous outrage on the part of your party.

>> i would hope that we wouldn't have been doing what these people were doing with the dossier and that kind of stuff. i think it's very unsettling to me. >> what are you saying they're doing with the dossier? >> well, i hope we get to the bottom of it. there have been articles written, questioning whether or not that was used for some purpose by the department of justice and i'm not going to speculate what that might have been. we need to have some of those people testify to get to the bottom of it. >> the sweeping conclusion of the dossier which is that russia mounted a large systemic effort to meddle with the election has been proven. that's been proven independently. the dni said that was the case in january of last year very publicly in a report that can be googled. there are parts of the dossier not verified. but the overarching conclusion of it is very much true and has been backed up by the entire intelligence community.

>> right. i don't think anybody disagrees that the russians tried through digital ads and things like that and counter intel propaganda to influence our election and the climate of the united states. i don't think they succeeded. >> do you trust robert mueller, the special counsel? >> yeah, you know, basically i do. the guy's reputation is impeccable. that's why it's so disheartening to see he picked a team that is 12 to 1 ratio of contributions to hillary clinton and democrats versus republicans. i would have thought he could have found a few more republicans and have it more balanced. >> i cannot fact collect you on that donation break down. i want to make that clear. i don't have the facts in front of me on that. but where is the evidence that you think his team is not being impartial when you look at the fact that as soon as he found out there were text messages between peter strzok and an fbi attorney that he pushed this guy off the investigation?

where is the evidence that there is this impartial alt affecting the investigation? >> i think it's greatet pushed that guy off the investigation. i think they probably ought to push him right out the door. >> but you said you were worried, obviously, that this is not an impartial investigation even robert mueller you trust. where is the evidence that this is somehow compromised by individuals' politics? >> i think that's what the committee needs to get to the bottom of why did that orr guy meet with the fusion gps person about the dossier? what were they trying to accomplish. >> who met with the fusion gps people? >> bruce orr. >> who has been demoted. >> he's still working over there though. >> he's not a part of this, he's not a part of this though. we're talking about the russia investigation. >> i'm glad they're off the investigation. what other kind of damage might they do sometime if they're

those kind of people so focused on what the ends that they want to accomplish are they'll use any means to get to what they want. >> but someone just fantastic checked, nine of the 15 lawyers on mueller's team gave to democrats. i just want to put that out there. you had said a certain number when it came to dollar amounts. that is publicly known. >> when we check the contributions of like -- it was around 67,000 to about 4,000. >> you're talking not -- just to be clear, we're talking about individuals. you're putting it in a dollar figure which makes it seem like it's the vast majority but actually there's 15 members of the team of lawyers and this is just the lawyers side just so we're clear on that. i want to be clear because we need to be. >> we should look at the entire -- that's a good point. we should look at the totality of all the paralegals and fbi

people and investigators and find out exactly how many people as well as dollars. that's a point well take. >> and why do you want to do that? >> well, i would just, if you're going to -- >> because you don't trust the investigation. you don't trust the team? >> i have a little bit of concern when i saw those e-mails when i see that this lady worked for eric holder and the clinton foundation. when i see the meeting in director mccabe's office talking about the dossier. that makes me nervous. i hope the house oversight committee will get to the bottom of all this so we can feel good about the work the fbi is doing and not bad. >> congressman francis rooney, we appreciate you being with us. happy new year to you, sir. >> thank you for having me on. >> coming up, the president's prediction for the new year. a bipartisan deal on health care. can democrats and republicans col together in 2018?

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congressman, i know you follow president trump's tweets and this prediction he has for the new year. are you and other democrats willing to work with republicans to make changes to obamacare especially now that the individual mandate has essentially been gutted? >> well, if we're going to move forward and deal with health care, the foundation is we have to keep the many parts of the affordable care act that are working incredibly well for the american people and to the extent there are adjustments necessary to strengthen it, that we have always been willing to reach out and work together in a bipartisan way to do that. the problem is at the beginning of this year trump and the republicans came into congress with the intention of fulfilling a political promise which is to repeal and replace the affordable care act and to put in its stead trumpcare which would have thrown off 24 million americans from their health insurance and posed a draconian age tax on americans between 50

and 64 and stripped away protections for pre-existing conditions. >> but they weren't able to do it as you know. >> that's right. so if that's going to be trumpcare 2.0 or 3.0, then i don't think there will be a lot of democratic support. >> sure. what about there's discussions between patty murray and lamar alexander about doing things to stabilize the individual insurance mandate. you have without this mandate and saying you have to pay a penalty if you don't have insurance, have you 13 million people expected to lose koj over the next decade. i don't think anyone is expecting the democrats are going to go along with what we saw come up in congress this past year. something that is more bipartisan and meant to stabilize the market so that americans can having better insurance, more access to insurance, is that something you would be open to? >> certainly if there's a good faith effort to improve the health care that americans get

and rely upon moving forward, that's something democrats and republicans should come together regardless of partisan politics to accomplish. >> so i want to change topics and talk about the fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. we learned recently he is planning to retire in 2018. last week he testified before your committee, the judiciary committee. did you find he corroborated james comey's claims that president trump asked for loyalty? >> he actually testified behind closed doors with a subset of the judiciary complete. i wasn't part of that conversation. based on my communication with my colleagues, it did seem like he has corroborated what comey said about the loyalty pledge and other moments of uncomfortability that james comey sent with president donald trump before he was unceremoniously fired by the president even though he was leading the criminal investigation into his campaign. >> we have seen president trump

taking aim at him here over the weekend. we've seen a growing number of your republican colleagues taking aim at the fbi. and the doj. you just heard the interview with congressman rooney. when you hear that criticism, what do you chalk that up to? >> all americans should be troubled by the clear effort to undermine an independent investigation that's under way by bob mueller who prior to him being appointed as a special counsel was universally praised and respected by dras and republicans, conservatives and progressives. he's a first rate law enforcement professional, and as you pointed out during your previous interview, there is not one scintilla of evidence to suggesting that bias has guided this investigation into whether the trump campaign colluded with russia to interfere with our election. he's going to be guided by the facts, apply the law and lead to

whatever conclusion is based on what has been presented to him. >> congressman, thank you so much for that. we appreciate you spending time with us this holiday week. >> thank you. happy new year. >> i want to bring in our panel. joining us senior political correspondent fompt washington examiner david drucker, associate editor and columnist from real clear politics and host on sirius xma.b. stoddard. i do want to talk about health care. i first want to talk to you about the russia investigation and what we have heard from democrats and republicans. it's not all congressional republicans saying that robert mueller can't be trusted or that are questioning the objectivity of the fbi and doj. marco rubio has full faith in mueller. he heard from congressman francis rooney who doesn't and suggested there should be a purge at the fbi and d.o.j. what do you make of this seems

to be a growing chorus of republicans and trump taking aim at the fbi. >> once it moves from the pages of breitbart and other sort of alt-right pro-trump media into lawmakers in congress, it becomes more potent and has the effect of ultimately discredititying the findings of robert mueller's report when it ultimately comes among republican voters. that's a serious matter. what you were talking about with congressman rooney undermining faith in the fbi. but what we're seeing is lease a division. someone like trey gowdy who is to be head of the benghazi committee did not sign on to be an investigation that congressman announce is undertaking by himself into potential corruption at the fbi. his office put out a statement saying he backs the fbi. there's some critics of the investigation who are at the same time stepping back from

this precipice of delving into a full on attack of the fbi. >> i imagine, david, that has to do with the fact that republicans want to be the party of law and order. normally it would seem the party would be so interested in maintaining integrity of the top law enforcement agencies in the country and yet, some of them are making political calculations here. >> it's definitely a little bit of a switch for some republicans. normally they're on the side of law enforcement agencies and they give the benefit of the doubt to the conduct of those agencies. and look, don't forget, in 2016, after then fbi director james comey's news conference in which he called hillary clinton extremely careless for use of a private e-mail server, fast forward to october of that year, ten days before the election he sends a letter to congress saying in effect we're taking another look at this e-mail scandal. two days later, oops, never mind. democrats were outraged at jim comey and his conduct and felt

like the fbi in a way might have cost hillary clinton the election. i think what we're seeing here which is unusual is that you have some republicans in congress picking up on this, quote unquote, deep state conspiracy that the president pushed when he was a candidate and kept pushing after he was inaugurated suggesting there is a ca ball of bureaucrats inside the federal government that want to oust donald trump and skirt the democratic process. i'm laughing here a little because i think these are the kinds of things we used to discuss if fictional television shows. some republicans really believe this. i will say though that there are some questions that would be helpful for mueller as team to answer which is have they vetted everybody and do they know there are no more peter strzok's and other people. look, i was talking to a former agent. he said of's got a political opinion in the fbi. you do not broadcast it via text message and they should have at

least used their own private devices. that's part of the problem. >> final word from you on a different topic, a.b. the president says infrastructure is going to be easy. maybe not. >> the problem are not only after all of the long year of calling democrats obstructionists and losers trying to come to the table to work with them after getting through deadlines on legalization for dreamers and everything else, the problem is division with their own republican ranks, people conservative republicans who don't want to pay for this on top of deficit funded tax cuts. >> so many obstacles. thank you so much. we appreciate you both being here. coming up, infrastructure. immigration, welfare reform. are republicans all on the same page when it comes to their priorities for 2018.

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now. imagine where we'll be next november as we see our economy continue to grow under the great policies coming from republicans. >> rnc chair ron na romney mcdaniel talking about accomplishments by the president and republican leaders in congress. cnn's phil mattingly is at the magic wall to explain. walk us through who wants what. >> you think republican leaders coming off a major win with their tax overhaul. the big question is what comes next. what do they draft off of. these three leaders two are very clearly on the same pang, tge, president and mitch mcconnell saying the same thing. recognizing he has a majority in a couple days when the new alabama senator will be seated. he recognizes they're not going through simple majority votes anymore. they need democrats. democrats are very interested in

infrastructure. so perhaps an opening there. look where the speaker is. if you talk to speaker ryan, you know welfare reform, entitlement reform are things he's been keen on pushing forward. guess what, he's the speaker of the house and has a wide open agenda. he made clear he wants to push forward on that. majority leader made clear there's not a lot of appetite for that in the senate. they will be meeting at camp david to try and hash out the direction forward. at the end of the month, all republicans meet at the republican retreat. you'll see the results in the state of the union. before the big picture items come to fruition, take a look at this. this is what republicans have to deal with along with democrats by january 19th. you have the immigration and daca issue. march is the deadline. mcconnell made clear he wants to deal with that in january possibly along the same lines when they start dealing with the spending bill. repealing obamacare, the repeal

you can pretty much x that out. there's not a lot of appetite for that. that said, there are things they can do on obamacare they would like to consider. when will do those? how? they want to do them quickly. the question is, what the method or vehicle would be for doing those. the key here is in the month of january, they need to deal with must pass items early and quickly. formula one of those bigger picture items ever come to fru institution with such a slim majority in the senate and different factions in the house, there's this is question of what about the rank and file? who should we watch on hill. >> take a look at the ten red state democrats. democrats up for re-election in 2018 from states trump won. we assumed all through 2017 at some point some of these democrats would be there to actually help with republican agenda. never happened. infrastructure may be the difference. one other, susan collins made a clear deal with the majority

leader and the president to come on board for reform. that promise was broken. she wants very specific things on obamacare. the majority leader knows she's extremely important when you only have a 51-49 majority. keep an eye on susan collins. she wants two specific items on health care. the majority leader will try to do that in january. if he doesn't, you don't want a disappointed susan collins. >> she holds a lot of power this go-round. phil, thank you so much for that. ing coming up, the rare sit down interview and the controversy over whether obama will get an invite to the royal wedding. com interview and the controversy over whether obama will get an invite to the royal wedding. i'll never find a safe used car. start at the new carfax.com

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>> great, great answer. cigarettes or gum? >> gum now, baby. >> gum. white house or buckingham palace? >> white house just because buckingham palace looks like it would take a really long time to mow. >> okay, fair enough. >> a lot of upkeep. >> queen or "the queen"? >> the queen. >> i love that last question. melissa bell joining us from london. who is kidding, because there's a lot of mowing lawn at either property. >> barack obama wouldn't do it in either place, to be frank. >> so tell us about this interview. this was just a taste of it. >> it was fascinating on two counts. first of all because this was one extremely famous man interviewing another. how often do you get a prince interviewing a former president but also because at no point in this nearly 14-minute interview was donald trump mentioned a single time. yet the specter of the current

administration hung heavily over the interview. for instance, obama spoke about the dangers of social media, that common space needed to to be created because civil discourse was being corroded in a clear swipe at his successor's use of things like twitter. but that specter also hung over the other man who is part of this interview, prince harry who is getting married on may 19th. one of the questions that has yet to be resolved is who is going to be on the guest list of wlal be one of the most closely watched weddings in years. so just after the bbc aired that interview, they did an interview with prince harry. he was asked whether he would be inviting barack obama to his wedding. >> we share the same kind of mind-set and outlook on the charitable sector on foundations and mainly on the youth of the today. the young people of this world are incredibly inspirational.

>> well, enough to invite him to your wedding? >> well, i don't know about that. we haven't put the invites or the guest list together yet. who knows whether he will be invited or not. wouldn't want to ruin that surprise. >> the reason it's such an important question is if barack obama is invited to the royal wedding may 19th, there's a chance he will be making that visit to the united kingdom even before donald trump has been able to pay his first visit to the uk since taking power. that visit has been the subject of a lot of controversy, petitions and opposition here in the united kingdom. >> melissa bell, thank you so much for that report. appreciate it. coming up, a russian general makes a claim that the u.s. is training former isis militants. what is behind this? plus, it was supposed to be a nonstop flight to tokyo. instead, more than 200 passengers from l.a. ended up right back where they started after eight hours in the air. why did this happen? we'll talk about it next.

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envelope. in a newspaper report, this comes on the heels of a statement by the russian foreign ministe minister. internation international correspondent is there for us. why are they saying this? >> reporter: well, the russian general, he's actually the chief of staff of the russian military, didn't offer frp in the way of proof. said there are satellite images, and other intelligence as well. didn't put that forward that would make a case for this being true. now, they are saying that at a base called anton which is on

border between syria and jordan, they are training fighters, that the russians are former people who fought with isis. and russians are highly critical of that. u.s. for its part is saying yes this base exist, they continue to have presence, because they believe isis is still trying to wreck havoc in that part of syria. so they say all this is part of a big push, by the russians that we have seen, especially over the last week or so, where they are making a case for why they believe america should get out of syria. that's been the message from this general. he also said that in this interview as well. said no legitimate reason the u.s. should still be in syria. but other top ranked military officials have said the same thing. >> when he says the main fight is over, just fact check that. >> reporter: well, i mean, i think that a lot of it, main

fight as far as isis holding territory also in the areas where the russians helped the assad regime fight over there, i think a lot of that is over. if you look at the big cities certainly a lot of head way has been made. and quite frankly for us, and as you know i was on the ground in syria quite a bit, there was really a division of labor between the u.s. led forces and the russian led forces. and that really helped escalate the fight against isis. it being totally over, there are still a lot of places where isis fighters on the ground that can still be very dangerous. >> okay. thank you so much from that. from moscow. and coming up, jet lag anybody, a flight from l.a. to tokyo spends eight hours in the hour only gets back to the destination in los angeles, what happened here? plus the twitter from the celebrity on board.

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picture this, you are four hours into a flight to tokyo and crew announces they have to turn the plane around. that's right, flying four hours all the way back to the airport you came from because there is someone on board that shouldn't have been on board. that is what happened. one celebrity live tweeted about the incident. and you just got some new information about how this happened. >> right. because we've been talking about this story, so amazing to think, 11 hour flight, and four hours in you have to turn around. what in the world could have led

to this? and two law enforcement sources are telling me root of the problem were two brothers who were flying together. they were both going to tokyo but actually originally booked on two separate flights. so at some point, though, they have very similar names, at some point they were able to both get on the flight. perhaps the two similar names f through someone off. that is unclear. but only one booked to be on that flight. then hours later, someone within the flight crew realized there is one too many people on this flight. and that's when they started to realize something went wrong. of course, you know, as a part of their policy, abundance of caution, they decided to come back to lax. because the manifest didn't appear as it should have been. had one extra person. that is why they came back to lax. of course a huge embarrassment for the airline and of course it cost them a lot of money as

well. >> what does chrissy tee began have to do with this? >> one thing you don't want to have famous person with live twitter. she was tweeting this whole thing. quite entertaining. made the big joke, l.a. to l.a. complete, only took eight hours 20 minutes. >> so she was on there with her husband john legend. >> yeah. >> they look like they were riding in first class. >> they'll okay. >> but that coach, i have made that flight in coach. were they compensated? do we know. >> we know that the airline put them up in hotels. and then rebooked everyone on new flights. so everyone is on their way now. so, again, that's a significant cost to the airline as well, to turn your flight around and put people up in hotels and rebook them on new flights. and all because of what they are calling ha administrative mix-up. >> terrible. all right.

rene marsh thank you for that. that is it for me t for international viewers next with don lemon newsroom starts right now. top of the hour i'm don lemon everyone in for brooke today. we begin with the growing criticism. russian investigation that calls for out right purge at one of the nation's intel agencies. congress manning francis rooney, a florida republican says he wants to see the fbi remove agents with political bias. this after the political views of a few fbi employees were recently revealed in the form of text messages. he went on to call the russia probe off the rails and the work of the deep state. moments ago here on cnn. congressman rooney doubled down on his words during an interview with my colleague. watch this. >> are you s