i'm joined about christina greer, associate professor at the political science at fordham university.ndon buck, who served as press secretary of the house speaker, john boehner, and chief communications adviser of the house speaker of paul ryan. brendan, let me start with you on this. i think it is quite notable that you have fellow incoming freshman republican elected's, nick loda, mike lawler, in new york. these are in that crop, these are people that flipped biden seats, they understand what they are going to have to do to be reelected. really distancing themselves from santos, calling for him to be investigated. they, i think, can read the writing on the wall. i wonder if kevin mccarthy can as well. >> i think he can and i think that's good politics for those people, but it's also kind of stating the obvious of what's about to happen, as you, there already investigations taking place. there is going to be an ethics investigation taking place. kevin mccarthy, obviously, has one thing on his mind and that's becoming speaker of the house on january 3rd. and while george santos is a b

joining me now is christina greer, associate professor of political science at fordham university. let me start with you. without women voters, there would have been a republican red wave this year, whether not half? it's women who helped the dems to five political history. >> there i say, black women. we often talk about a gender gap, but when we look at the data, it's black women who actually skew the data because they are so overwhelming. the second largest democratic -- a distant third is latinos and asians. at the bottom tier, we have white women and white men. you know, yes, women did save democracy in many ways, but i want to be more specific. black women have been the canaries in the mind and continue to be the canaries in the mind, alerting the country and the world as to the dangers that lie ahead. very good point. unfortunately, coverage of all movement that coverage is not created equally. jessica chastain called out the double standards and how our media talks about various conflicts around the world. she told mary claire, of a lot of press recently, a lot of people tal

professor christina greer and professor cornel west, thank you so much for joining us. for today show. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] xx pppxxxx■]■t■]■o announcer: this program was made possible in part by caesars entertainment, tom campion, utopia foundation, the cloobeck family, masimo foundation, mgm resorts, and nv energy.

i'm joined about christina greer, associate professor at the political science at fordham university.ndon buck, who served as press secretary of the house speaker, john boehner, and chief communications adviser of the house speaker of paul ryan. brendan, let me start with you on this. i think it is quite notable that you have fellow incoming freshman republican elected's, nick loda, mike lawler, in new york. these are in that crop, these are people that flipped biden seats, they understand what they are going to have to do to be reelected. really distancing themselves from santos, calling for him to be investigated. they, i think, can read the writing on the wall. i wonder if kevin mccarthy can as well. >> i think he can and i think that's good politics for those people, but it's also kind of stating the obvious of what's about to happen, as you, there already investigations taking place. there is going to be an ethics investigation taking place. kevin mccarthy, obviously, has one thing on his mind and that's becoming speaker of the house on january 3rd. and while george santos is a b

susan page is with us and christina greer. katty, start with the storm. the death toll continues to rise. americans continue to be stranded. >> yeah. by the way, all of those introductions were absolutely correct. there was no resume embellishment even for jon heilemann there. the troubles continue for southwest airlines and its passengers this morning. more than 2,500 additional flights expected to be canceled today again and the airlines says it could take days more to restore normal operations's more than 8,000 canceled flights since monday. southwest's ceo jordan says the airline has been unable to get flight crews where they need to be compounding the effects of the bad weather. in an interview on "nbc nightly news" last night, transportation secretary pete buttigieg demanded they take care of their travelers and employees. >> they told me they would go above and beyond i'm holding them accountable for doing that. >> does that mean compensation? financial compensation? >> absolutely. first of all, at a minimum, there needs to be cash refunds for the