in moments, elaine chao. first to mike tobin in mid kay airport in chicago. good afternoon, mike. >> trace, the scene here at midway, you have the mess of abandoned bags behind me, a mess of bags that can't be matched with an owner. people are allowed one by one in to bag purgatory so they can walk a path between the bags and tried to identify their own luggage. every now and then, you hear a cheer. for the most part, people leave frustrated. that's one of the symptoms of this mess. across the nation, flight-away says 2,800 flights have been canceleled domestically. southwest has 80% of the cancellations. one staffer tells me the computer system has melted down to the extent that the executives don't know where the staff is despite the fact that they're calling in. then you have the traveling public that is just trying to get home. >> our luggage is missing. >> we completely cancelled southwest entirely and we're hoping we get a refund. >> so some blame is being pointed at the business model with the point-to-point flights instead of as a hub. more blame is d

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i want to bring in elaine chao. madam secretary, welcome to the show, good to see you.lation in a moment but first donald trump attacked you on the grounds of your ethnicity. i wonder if you will take a moment to respond. >> i don't mean to respond his comments. stuart: we were appalled at what he said and it is up to you what you say in response. inflation up 7. one% in the past 12 months, 7. 7%. do you think inflation has peaked? >> i hope so. i don't think so. the pressure is against so many aspects as we continue. the administration continuing to churn out, unprecedented amounts of new regulations, putting hamper on job creation and further growth of the economy. as your listeners just heard congress under the majority of democrats are thinking about increased spending, so much money from the government into this economy. that helped to worsen the inflationary pressures and they have not learned from that but are continuing to think about spending. the workforce is a difficult place for workers to be. workers are suffering from high inflationary pressures, even as t

the wife of mitch mcconnell, elaine chao.scripts now, and we will bring you any news as we fin it but today, the new york time magazine published this behind the scenes exposÉ, by rober draper and luke broadwater it details how the january 6th committee was able to pull off an historic investigation, and how the paneled nine members - we're able to present thei findings to the public in a wa that captured the magnitude of their discoveries. let us go to robert draper right now before i lose my voice entirely robert, can you talk to me about the role kevin mccarth played and all of this, in terms of ultimately shaping th -- [inaudible >> i, mean the interesting question, alex, because i thin that unwittingly, government really gave an advantage to th committee by making that decision, after nancy pelosi pushed the veto button on tw of his five picks to be on the committee, jim jordan and ji banks. mccarthy responded somewha passionately by then pulling the other three. what this did, trump had n defenders on the committee and

with people like pat cipollone and former transportation secretary wife of speaker minority leader elaine chaoable to present their findings to the public in a way that captured the magnitude of their discoveries. robert draper right now, before i lose my voice entirely. robert, can you talk to me about the role kevin mccarthy played in all of this? in terms of ultimately shaping the outcome? >> sure. no. i mean, the interesting question, alex, because i think that unwittingly kevin mccarthy really gave an advantage to the committee by making the decision after nancy pelosi pushed the veto button on two of his five picks to be on the committee, jim jordan and jim banks, mccarthy responded petulantly by pull the or three. trump had no defenders on the committee and there was no kind of circus. there was no external fighting amongst committee members and allowed them, therefore, to set their own narrative to actually engage in a series of productions which the hearings very much were. without any kind of interference. and so mccarthy did the committee a favor, women i'm sure he didn't intend to

president scalia told those and laughed in the room and scalia said elaine chao called him january 6bout her intention to resign. i think she believed that in one manner or another, the president's conduct prior to the attack on the capitol contributed in one way or another to what happened and the infamous phone call asking him to find 11,000 votes was a threat raffensperger said trump's followers would carry out that threat if he did not comply. and perhaps one of the interesting things we learned was the star witness cassidy hutchinson, former aide to mark meadows. it's part of the interview with the vice chair liz cheney, q quote, liz cheney, did you see mr. meadows put documents in his fireplace? cassidy hutchinson, yes, ma'am miss cheney, and do you know what the documents were? hutchinson replies i don't know. and miss cheney, how frequently did you see him do this? miss hutchinson, i mean, it's hard, i want to say once a week or twice, i can recall specific times that i did maybe a dozen, just maybe over a dozen, trump white house chief of staff mark meadows was regularly thr

elizabeth: elaine chao investigated too. they stay on the story. nearly 20 flights on private u.s.xpayers when he could skype or zoom. grover norquist. have a merry christmas. shaking your head. you're still upset about this don't stay upset for holidays. come back soon. >> he is better than us. you have to understand that. elizabeth: we understand that. we hear you, thank you. a ticking time bomb. look at this story. the white house today trying to dial down, downplay the largest caravan in u.s. history crossing the border right as title 42, that trump border policy ends next week. also staying on this story, twitter's elon musk he is talking about letting in stanford scientists to look at twitter files. this scientist found out he was censored the day he joined twitter. musk is indicating a new round of twitter bombshells, how twitter censored information about the pandemic on an even larger scale. dr. marc siegel next on "the evening edit." >> the government is in our hopes. it doesn't matter if they're sleeping in another room. they're here and they're working with social media

i mean, we're looking at transcripts right now from kayleigh mcenany, from elaine chao, of course transportationmarried to mitch mcconnell. she actually resigned shortly after january 6th citing the president's response to it. there's also bill barr, of course, bill barr was the attorney general at the time who tried repeatedly to tell donald trump that there was no weight, nothing behind these false claims of election fraud. we heard from william barr a lot, actually, in the taped deposition that the committee played throughout the summer and the hearings. i'm just going through this list right now. we also have justin clark who's been a top attorney for the president, argued for the president in many different cases that we've seen actually even over the past year or so. sidney powell, of course, who was one of the election lawyers who vociferously argued even before courts in those claims of -- false claims of election fraud. seeing a lot of names here, you know, we're talking about a very voluminous amount of transcripts. so brianna, our team continues to go through this. most of the transcr

. >> and it's wonderful, it's a wonderful american success story for secretary elaine chao. >> i would never disparage here. >> we have-- >> identify yourself. >> frederick peterson, and i wanted to first address a comment where we're looking at, i know the term has been grossly overused lately, but existential threats to our system, to personal liberty and to the economy worldwide, there is a great upheaval. given the powers that are the powers that of technology and control that exist now that is also unprecedented in the history of the world, this is critical. back at seton hall law school a personal note, we founded something called the environmental law forum. >> sir, sir, do you have a question? >> do you have a question? >> yes, i do. >> what is your question. >> yes, i do. let me finish, i'm getting right to it. the environmental law forum or elf, little elf was also a survival technique and i offer this for all of us, elf stood for for those in the inner circle eat the liberals first. [laughter]. >> sir, sir. >> at any rate, the question is, we are facing within a matter of da

one of them is elaine chao who was the labor secretary under the former president. doesn't really having a conversation about the twenty-fifth amendment with other members of the cabinet, this idea that you could remove the former president, president trump obviously, for what had happened on january 6th. she did resign that day after what she saw. this is what she says. the reason why she did it, she says, was the full ramification of the actions that were taken by some people and the results that occurred. now, she's careful not to mention donald trump himself and to criticize him, but she says i wish he had acted differently. we also learned that ivanka trump, the former president's daughter, turned over some of her text messages under the request from the committee. it goes to show you, kate, the extent of the evidence that was gathered by this committee. and, of course, we know that at this point they have now started turning over some of that evidence to the justice department, which is, you know, obviously doing a criminal investigation and has been asking fo

attorney general, bill barr, white hous counsel pat cipollone, secretary of transportation, elaine chaol, secretary of stat mike pompeo, and trump's own daughter and senior adviser, ivanka trump. this comes les than 24 hours after th committee dropped its fina report on the january 6t attack. dickey finding from he nearly 18 month investigatio was clear. that without donald trump, the riot would not have happened. let's bring in january 6th committee member and former constitutional la professor congressman jim u. s can. congressman, thank you so much for joining me tonight. i can imagine that you would lov to call it a day. after this week you just had. 845-pag report, huge. but the majority of americans are not going t read it. the bottom line, th bottom takeaway is that what happened was really bad, and donald trump is to blame. ho do you believe that this man i held accountable for doing wha he did >> well, as you know, we need referral to the department o justice of violations of fou different criminal statutes, including interference of th federal proceeding, conspiracy to defraud