it's the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. >> somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still

problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a ground stop. >> secretary buttigieg said it's still not clear what caused this system failure, but it does not appear to be a cyberattack. what is clear is the ripple effect for thousands of passengers so let's bring in cnn's adrienne broaddus. what are passengers telling you, adrienne? >> reporter: alisyn, they say they have had to do some juggling this morning. we met one family who was supposed to fly out of madison, wisconsin to california. that flight was canceled so they drove here to o'hare. travelers looking at the information board are starting to see it return to normal. however, we do see signs of late aircraft. moments ago i spoke with a father and his daughter who are on their way to brussels. he told me because of what we've seen in recent weeks with air travel, he planned accordingly.

listen in. >> we booked our flight to chicago with about a ten-hour layover just in case something happened, and i'm glad we did. >> are you afraid that this will become the norm, glitches and whatnot with air travel? >> no. you got to be flexible, you know, it's always something. it's a lot of different things that can go wrong, but they usually sort it out. >> reporter: flexibility is key. he is taking this with a positive attitude. meanwhile here at chicago o'hare, there have been a little more than 100 canceled flights, and about 800 delays. alisyn? >> he certainly had the right attitude. >> really did. adrienne, thank you. the white house says there are no visible signs of foul play, but that an investigation is ongoing. joining us now is cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence

manager. tell us about what happened here. >> the national cyber director at the white house and who comes from the nsa, not a stranger to hacking or foreign adversaries attempting things on computer, he is managing from the white house the kind of government-wide effort between cybersecurity experts to kind of take a deep dive in this. i mean, what pete buttigieg told us today is there is no evidence of a cyberattack. that's good news, but we have to remind ourselves when you have a highly sophisticated cyberattack, it is meant to conceal evidence. they're going to be going into the computer logs at the faa and they'll be going back to look for anomalous behavior. where did the system start to crack or glitch? where was the domino effect where i started to get worse and then go back further. did something come in from the outside? what other places does the system touch? what thumb drive could

introduced something through either a vendor or something else? there's just a million questions when you are going frorensicall backwards through a complex system to find out what could have affected it beyond a glitch with the system. >> it sounds so complicated. you lost me at thumbdrive. >> it is, alisyn, but when you look at the level of sophistication here -- well, first of all, computers have problems. computers break. computers get, you know, when they have updates, things can happen. >> yeah. >> sure. >> but when you look back at the efforts of foreign adversaries, whether you take the russians and the solar winds attack, and the solar winds attack, what we learned was you don't have to attack the faa's system or the department of defense system or this system. you just attack the maintenance system that crawls through there and updates and fixes everything because it gives you access to everywhere, and there were multiple government agencies affected by the solar winds which was a sophisticated russian hack.

you look at the chinese. numerous attempts to get into u.s. transportation systems. they've tried to hack into the metropolitan transportation authority right here in new york. so this is a matter of due diligence which is, a, they have to figure out what went wrong in the system, and then they have to figure out, was it from the inside or was it from the outside? >> john, thank you very much for explaining all of that. let's discuss further. we have peter goles, and zach britch. thank you so much for being here. peter, what do you think? just from the cursory information that we have so far this morning, what do you think happened? >> well, i mean, clearly the system started to crash overnight, and they weren't -- they weren't prepared to go online this morning. i mean, we run a hub and spoke system which the majority of our

flights, you know, rarrive and depart from large airports. if the system starts to crash, it's going to cascade throughout the country, and a pilot is -- will not take off unless he has a read on his depar sture and arrival airport. it simply shut the system down. >> zach, i'm thinking about the people who have flights later today or tomorrow. the number of delays crept from 2,000 to 3,000 to 6,000 to 7,000, and now they're above 8,000. does the last domino likely of these delays fall today or do you expect that this could continue into tomorrow? >> well, i think -- >> that one's for zach. >> sorry. >> it's all right. >> sorry. yeah. you know what? one of the things we've seen so far, about 45% of flights today, u.s. flights in, out, or purely domestic flights canceled or

delayed, those are pretty astonishing numbers. one of the nice things, though, is today is a quieter travel day. the holiday period is behind us. there are lots of seats for people to be rebooked and rescheduled on connecting flights. typically what airlines like to do is they'll reset their operation tonight and get the pieces in place to have tomorrow morning start out fresh, clean slate. nice thing though is if you are booked, the airlines all have waivers, the big ones, american, delta, and united. you can pre-emptively make changes without any other fees. >> peter, when all the chaos was happening in the southwest whwe found out it was an i.t. problem. we found out they hadn't updated their i.t. system in a woefully long time. could it be something as simple and rudimentary as that that brought everything to a

standstill this morning? >> that's what's going to be discovered in the upcoming hearings that are going to take place on this issue. the question is, did the faa apply the necessary funds to keep this critical system as current as they could? i mean, this is a system that is fundamental to safety, and, you know, it started out post-world war ii and has, you know, at one point, you've got your people via phone. now it's online. have they invested the proper amount of money to keep this system up to date, and apparently they haven't. >> all right. peter goelz, zach griff, thank you both. so today, new york republican lawmakers called on congressman george santos to resign over the lies he's told about his professional and his personal life, but santos says that he will not do that. >> will you resign? >> i will not.

>> we need a little bit of space here. >> republicans are calling you a disgrace. >> you will not resign? >> cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, reporters just asked how speaker kevin mccarthy -- how he plans to handle george santos. what did he say? >> reporter: he's aligning himself with george santos, not with the calls from new york republican leaders who called on him to immediately resign. those members of the nassau county republican party saying there should be an immediate resignation from george santos given his widespread fabrication. apparently it was about his past and his background, but mccarthy told reporters it was up to the voters to decide not members of congress, and he suggested that santos could even get some lower tiered committee assignments. >> the nassau county gop called on him to resign today. does that affect your thinking at all? what do you intend to do about congressman santos? >> i try to stick by the

constitution. the voters elected him. so if there is a concern, he has to go through the ethics and we'll move through that, but right now the voters have a voice and a decision. it's not what people pick and choose based upon somebody's -- >> would you -- >> he'll continue to serve. >> he himself as admitted to fabricating parts of his resume. >> yeah, and so did a lot of people here. the senate mattermatters, but ie voters who made that decision. he has to answer to the voters and the voters can make another decision in two years. >> do you trust congressman santos yourself? >> he's going to have to build the trust here, and he's going to have the opportunity to try to do that. >> would you welcome his resignation if he offered it to you? >> the voters decide. that's his decision to make, and he'll have to go through ethics. >> will you take any action against him at this point? are any of these allegations acceptable to you? >> what are the charges against him? is there a charge against him? in america today, you're innocent until proven guilty.

just because someone doesn't like the press you have, the voters are the power. the voters made the decision and he has a right to serve. if there is something that rises to the occasion that he did something wrong, then we'll deal with that at that time. >> you have the power to put him on committees though. will you put him on committees? >> yes. >>. >> reporter: i'm told that santos asked to sit on a prime committee. that was rejected, but it appears he may get some other committee assignassignments, an also important to note that if he were to resign, that would set up a special election in a new york district that could favor democrats, give them a pickup opportunity and tighten mccarthy's already narrow margin. you see what he's saying here. he's going to stay a member of congress unless something changes, guys? >> we're learning about other assignments and what does that look like?

>> reporter: some of them absolutely are. behind the scenes they made some of these key decisions. two members in particular, michael cloud and andrew clyde. they unusually were two republicans who held out on kevin mccarthy. we're told they will have a seat on the house appropriations committee. that funds the federal government. there are also other members as well. byron donalds who was nominated to run against mccarthy fell short of those votes and he'll have a seat on the financial services committee. this is all part of mccarthy's deal. he promised more representation from some members of that hard-right freedom caucus, and that won over some of these key members. we're learning more and more about elements of kevin mccarthy's handshake deal, and that's exactly how he got the votes to get ballots to become speaker. >> it's all coming together. thank you. with us kelly armstrong, making these decisions about committee assignments. congressman, thank you so much

for being here. should george santos be on the financial services committee? will he be on that? >> he is not on the financial service committee, but it's difficult for me. there is 222 members of the republican majority. five of us serve on the ethics committee. i am one of those five, and i know there's been an official compliant filed against him and i take that seriously. i can't comment more on that. >> i'm not asking you about the ethics investigation into him, but because you're on the committee, the steering committee that assigns people to committee assignments, is george santos on any committee? >> he was not put on any committees today. we're coming back again next week. >> as you know, there are local republican leaders who are calling for him to resign over the slew of lies that he has said about his resume, about his personal life and previous jobs. do you agree he should resign? >> again, i'm going to be very clear. he has had an ethics complaint officially filed against him. i'm on the only true bipartisan committee in congress. we take that job very seriously.

we sit in judgment of our peers and it's just something i'm not willing to talk about. >> how about marjorie taylor greene? what committee will she be on? >> i don't know what committee she's going to be on. i absolutely believe marjorie taylor greene should be seated on committees. every one of us represents 750,000 people, and there seems to be a distinction that we think we work for leadership. doesn't matter if it's democratic or republican leadership. we don't. we work for our constituents. i have the privilege of representing an entire state, and those are the people i work for. i don't work for either republican leadership or democratic leadership. when we send somebody to congress, they should get committee assignments. >> i mean, except for if it's, say, eric swalwell or adam schiff, or, you know, ilhan omar. >> well, as somebody who is defending our members, whether it was jim jordan or marjorie taylor greene, or paul gosar, or jim banks last congress, i made this same argument. i said, when you move the goal

post and the goal posts never go back -- i begged the democrats not to do this two years ago, and we're seeing what's moving through with that. >> let's talk about the top prior ties for the republican-led house. you want congress to investigate the fbi and the doj. about the fbi, obviously that's a vital crime-fighting organization in our country. as you know, they just successfully surveilled the suspect in the idaho -- university of idaho murders across the country, and arrested him. he do things like that, and much less high-profile things every single day. do you worry that by investigating the fbi it will impact the morale of the agents and the work that they do? >> i worry that it's already happened. i worked prior to being ever involved in government, i was a public defender inn north dakot. i worked with local and all the way across the board and i served on judiciary and oversight for my first two years in congress.

i've read the reports that have come out. i have seen what we are doing and dealing with, and one of my biggest frustrations is that the leadership of the fbi by politicizing and doj politicizing so many different things, that the rank and file members who are just trying to do the best work they can in places like north dakota are losing -- are losing the steam through no fault of their own. we have to get into this. i was one of the first people in judiciary on the republican side to go after director wray in a hearing after president trump appointed him. these are really serious issues, and we need to investigate and deal with it, and we have had fbi whistle-blowers already come forward, and there's a real serious problem in leadership, and just changing a regulation isn't going to solve it. >> okay. so let's talk about the classified documents that we now know both president trump and president biden as vice president appeared to mishandle. do you see any difference in these cases? >> you know, i haven't looked at it. i will tell you one big difference. it was discovered on both prior to the election, but only one was -- only one was disclosed

prior to the election, and this isn't the first time that has happened either, whether it's censoring the "new york post," 100 different people, we obviously know doj was coordinating heavily, and they were coordinating with big tech in order to suppress certain things. >> yeah. >> my knee-jerk concern is the difference in timing. i'm hopeful we do something i don't feel like democrats did for my first two years. we're going to investigate the conduct and take it where it goes, and we're going to do it in a serious way, and then prejudge any conclusions until we figure out what's going on. >> in terms of disclosure, it wasn't that president trump came out and disclosed it. it was that the national archives spent more than a year trying to the documents back from mar-a-lago. that's why it was disclosed. they finally had to make a public statement. i wouldn't say they were very disclosing. >> no, and i understand that, and i think there are probably differences in the cases. there are always similarities and there's always differences, but there seems to be a pattern of conduct the closer we get to the election, the less stuff is

disclosed on one side. no one can argue that happens on a an even-keel basis, and that's not the truth. >> president trump didn't disclose all the ones he had either. i don't think that in terms of nondisclosure around a midterm, that's a good analogy. >> no, but you have suppressing the "new york post." this was obviously discovered with then-vice president biden a month before the election. all of those different things, and they continue to go on in suppression and the coordination between big tech and big government as we're leading up to elections is not something i think is coincidental. >> okay. congressman kelly armstrong, thank you for your time. >> thanks. northern california is still being hammered with rain, and there's another storm on the way. what's causing this extreme weather? we'll discuss. and later, the golden globes made their big return last night and tried to put the diversity scandal behind them. how that went. and the night's big winners. on the subway app. l like this one! 50% off?!

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house careen jean pierre, who discovered the documents and ultimately disclosing that to the archives and she repeatedly pointed back to the statement that the president made just yesterday. here's a little bit of karine jean-pierre trying to answer those questions today. >> this is an ongoing process. you heard from the president, he spoke about this in detail yesterday in front of -- on a world stage, in front of -- in front of many of you who were there, in front of many of your colleagues. he laid out what he knew. he said that he seriously -- he takes this seriously when come it comes to classified documents, and documents that are classified. he was surprised to learn that the records had been there. again, he believes that the lawyers did the right thing, and they immediately turned them

over to the archives. >> reporter: again, this idea that the lawyers did the right thing here, but in terms of why those documents were there in the first place in this office, not where classified documents are supposed to be, she did not provide any answers on that. she also wouldn't answer why it took so long to disclose that these documents had been discovered and found, and it emerged through this week through news reports, and then the white house counsel's office, they discovered these documents on november 2nd, alerted the national archives and handed over those documents. the white house did say in the same way that president biden said yesterday, once this process plays out, that might be a time for further details and further explanation, but we don't know when that will happen. we do know that the department of justice has been reviewing this situation. the u.s. attorney base in chicago, and we also seem to know more about these classified documents than president biden himself might even. he has not been -- he suggested he's been told not to ask whats

in -- is in these documents, and these are ten classified documents with briefing materials with countries such as iran, ukraine, and the united kingdom. ultimately here, this is a story of a white house being very cautious as we watched this judicial review taking place and very concerned of course, as well about the prospects, the possibility of a special counsel being appointed in this matter. we know that when special counsels are appointed at white houses, it rarely goes well ultimate i will for the president currently sitting in the oval office. >> jeremy diamond, thank you for that. let's bring in peter struck. he joins us now. he's the author o of "compromised." peter, great to see you. different details between president trump and president biden, but still the same problem which is classified documents not being where they're supposed to be, and being mishandled. how concerning is this to you? >> well, i think it's certainly

concerning. there are similarities and differences. any time classified information is not stored appropriately, it presents a great deal of risk to all the different sources of information that the intelligence community might be running. whether that's human sources, signals capabilities, and satellite capabilities, the things that provide vital information to support the national security of the united states. it's supposed to be protected in a certain way. it shouldn't have been in the location that it was for president biden. now the fact of the matter is, as sensitive as this information is, almost on a daily basis somewhere in the u.s. government, classified information is mishandled and where that becomes important is the reasons why it was mishandled. is this something where somebody was negligent, they didn't know something was taken and they left something behind. they get it shuffled up in a mix of classified and unclassified papers. those things typically are handled in an administrative

way, and they are unfortunately very, very common. that's entirely different from the scenario where you have somebody obviously if they're trying to give that to a foreign power, but obviously if they know they have this classified information, they know they shouldn't have it. they're taking steps to hide that from the authorities, trying to obscure the fact that they have it, and that sort of inte intent and behavior behind this mishandling of classified information is really what's important to understand. >> yeah. i think the variables and how they differ are clear between the trump case and biden case here. the attorney general places a premium and prioritizes an apolitical justice department. do you expect there will be a special prosecutor assigned to this because there is a special prosecutor overseeing the trump case? >> well, what i have seen so that are is in my opinion, exactly what should happen. one, the president is staying out of it. president biden is saying, i'm

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more good news for buffalo bills safety damar hamlin. his team says he has been discharged from the buffalo hospital, and will be able to continue his rehabilitation at home. cnn's sports anchor andy scholes joins us now. what's happening? >> well, victor and alisyn, i mean it doesn't get any better than this, right? damar hamlin will get to sleep in his own bed for the first time in nearly two weeks. that has to be such an amazing feeling for him and his family. the doctors there in buffalo said they put him through a k comprehensive evaluation, and everything went well. they have the confidence to be able to send him home so he can continue his rehab there, and with the bills. now will hamlin end up walking into the bills facility sometime this week? well, head coach sean mcdermott said that's completely up to hamlin. take a listen. >> we're grateful first and

foremost that he's home, and with his parents and his brother which is great. i'm sure it's felt like a long time since he's been able to be home, naturally there, and i'm sure it's a great feeling, and we'll leave it up to him. his health is first and foremost on our mind as far as his situation goes, and then when he feels ready, you know, we welcome him back as he feels ready. >> yeah. the buffalo bills have their first playoff game against the miami dolphins at 1:00 eastern on sunday, and, you know, guys, in that first game against the patriots since damar hamlin's situation, they returned the kickoff on the first play of the game. i can't think of a better moment than damar hamlin being there with the team. could he lead them out of the tunnel before the game? i don't know, but that would certainly be an incredible moment considering where we were a week from monday. >> andy scholes, thank you for the great update. >> thank you, andy. supreme court justices

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just into cnn, the supreme court just sent a strong signal to gun rights activists while the justices allowed the new york handgun restriction to say in place for now. conservatives had an extraordinary message to the challengers. what did they say? >> reporter: what's interesting is that early this morning, the supreme court actually turned away a challenge from gun owners basically saying it wasn't the

right time for these gun owners to bring their complaint to the supreme court. it had to play out at the lower courts first, but what's raising some eyebrows and getting some interest here is a separate statement that was simultaneously released from justice samuel alito and joined by clarence thomas. they're sending a strong signal to gun owners to keep pressing their claims in court, and keep pursuing these challenges to gun laws potentially across the country. now this one concerned a new york gun law that was recently put into effect, and in the statement with this emergency order, samuel alito said this. he said the new york law at issue presents novel then he continued saying while agreed the supreme court should turn away the challenge at this time, he said, applicants should not be deterred by today's order from again seeking relief, potentially in the future, specifically if the lower courts don't act in the right way.

this is really significant. of course, it was just last term that the supreme court invalidated a previous new york gun law that had specific parameters for concealed carry permits for gun owners. they rejected that law, struck it down. it's really changed the landscape of how lower courts are judging gun laws all across the country. it's creating this ripple affect of challenges in courts. consequentially, courts don't exactly know how to address these gun laws. they have to adhere to a specific set of parameters when evaluating the laws, looking into the history and whether the founders would have approved of some of the laws. today, a strong signal from two of the court's most conservative justices, alito and thomas, to the gun owners saying, keep challenging these laws and really leaving the door open that the supreme court might consider other laws in the future here. >> really interesting

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the golden globe awards returned last night after nbc canceled last year's telecast when it was revealed that the hollywood foreign press had zero black members. >> the organization has since made some changes. stefanie elam was on the red carpet to see the changes and the stars. spoke to some of the biggest

winners. >> mr. spielberg. >> a big night for steven spielberg. besting "avatar, the way of water." spielberg winning best director for the story of his life. >> i spent a lot of time trying to figure out when i could tell that story. i figured out when i turned 74 years old, i said, you better do it now. >> reporter: it was without the fireworks of the will smith oscars. eddie murphy did surprise while offering advice for a successful career. >> keep will smith's wife's name [ bleep ] mouth. >> i'm here because i'm black. >> reporter: the hold, not shying away from the golden globe's controversial past. the show banished last year after the l.a. times revealed the voting body, the hollywood foreign press association,

lacked diversity. there were no black members. now the hfpa says an expansion of more than 100 members has led to nearly 52% being ethnically diverse. >> i hope they will uphold and upkeep the high standards. >> reporter: the stars telling me, it was time to embrace the show's return. one star not present, tom cruz, who returned his three globes last year admits the controversy. >> i found these three golden globe awards that tom cruz returned. >> reporter: the globes are not the best predictor of oscar gold. they can influence academy nominations later this month. austin butler fuelled his momentum winning best actor in a drama for playing elvis. >> the presley family, thank you. thank you for opening your hearts, your memories.

>> reporter: michelle yoeh proved why she has oscar buzz. >> this is for all the shoulders that i stand on, all who came before me who look like me. >> reporter: on the tv side, "abbott elementary" won big. >> combhededy brings us togethe. hey, brad pitt. >> reporter: it had another win for tyler james williams who also won for his supporting actor role. it's a keep that gets more viewers who love it. i can tell you that on the carpet, people were happy that the golden globes were back in person, they were back and they were changing their tune on how they do things. the stars like the show. it's the first out of the box for award season. they get to drink wine while they watch the show. speeches are a little looser, as you saw that if you . >> brad pitt is distracting, apparently. >> they sit him front and

center. >> once again. he distracts everybody. >> i think eddie murphy -- >> he ate it up. >> eddie murphy's speech was great and hilarious. pay your taxes. mind your business. you heard the third, which i'm not going to repeat in the middle of the day. >> that's great. >> he was so serious. that's what made it more funny. >> exactly. important wisdom. it looked like a livelier entire party and reception than usual. that's great. seems like they fixed some of the problems. >> some of them. i thought it was a great show. i enjoyed it. i watched it. i sat down and looked at the screen. >> you stayed up and watched? >> i did. that's new for me. >> new you. >> new year, new you. >> thank you. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. can'