kirby. clearly, one of the failures during this flight incident was not offering passengers greater compensation to volunteer to be pumped -- bumped when the were on the over bookings flight. i understand that united's new policy allows customers to be compensated up to $10,000. will the compensation be offered in all cases or will there be restrictions? >> we do have a certain limit, and then it escalates all the way up to $10,000. it does require an escalation of increasing levels of management. the gate limits are greatly increased from where they were before. one of the other things we are doing is having annual training to help gate agents with this process and the escalating situations as well. one of the findings in a report was that we did not do an adequate job of getting training to agents so that they could discern -- so they could deal with this very difficult situation. >> you mentioned in your testimony, united made adjustments to its overbooking policies. that there will be a

kirby. >>> good morning, my name is sharon pinkerton, the senior vice-president at airlines for america. we appreciate the opportunity to be here today. we want the traveling public and this committee to know that the nation's airline are listening. like you, we found the events that transpired around the april 9 ins department unacceptable. the industry fully accepts that it's our responsibility to ensure that such behavior and disrespect of a passenger can never happen again. we also know that deep regret and apologies, however sincere, are no substitute for meaningful solutions and action. to meet that responsibility, our carriers immediately reviewed why and how this situation developed and, importantly, where necessary, are making systemic changes based on that review. and these aren't ysuperficial changes. just a few examples of the concrete steps that a variety of carriers are taking, completely eliminating or reducing overbooking, ensuring that no passenger is involuntarily removed f

kirby. >> the same, congressman. one thing i would add communication is important in those situations. we have minimum guidelines for intervals between communication updates that we ask our staff to adhere to. we also ask captains who we know customers have deep respect for in certain situations to also provide an update. >> thank you. >> congressman, the same thing. we treat those follow on cancellations the same way. we provide vouchers for hotels and meals and those types of things. it's constanley to take care of the customer. >> likewise for us at american, as i mentioned before service recovery is one of our top priorities. i think your experience is illustrative of the importance of that. when we got into irregular operations meaning not only are we communicating with customers but providing options and providing compensation, so that's something that will be as well. >> mr. mcgee. >> thank you, congressman. your joke about flying to london may not have been as absurd of you might has been. -- might've thought

kirby and ms. pinkerton, will you commit to working with me and my staff as we approach the faa reauthorization on measures like that include in the tickets act that will improve air travel for customers? >> we're very happy to work with you, senator. i do want to urge caution, as we discussed previously, many of the items that are in your legislation do make sense and that's why carriers have stepped up and said, it doesn't make sense for us to remove a passenger from a plane. that said, i mean i do urge caution in going into this mandatory one size fits all approach, because what we've seen in the past, is that there are unintended consequences and it does end up increasing the cost of travel which -- i know all of the members on this committee feel strongly about service to their local communities. that gets impacted too so we just need to be cognizant -- >> i understand that. you know, you always have to balance this, but i think a lot of my constituents would say that airlines treat them in a

kirby and ms. pinkerton will you commit to making -- working with me and my staff as we approach the faa authorization and measures on this ticket act that includes customers? >> we are very happy to work with you senator. i do want to urge caution and i think as we discussed previously many of the items that are in your legislation to make sense and that is why carriers stepped up and said yes it doesn't make sense for us to remove the passenger from a plane. that said i do urge caution in going into this mandatory one-size-fits-all approach because what we have seen in the past is that there are unintended consequences and it does end up increasing the cost of travel which and i know all of the members on this committee feel strongly about service to their local communities and that gets impacted too so we need to be cognizant. >> i understand that. uis have to balance this but a lot of my constituents would say the airlines treat them in a one-size-fits-all manner and that they are not treated a

. >>> united airlines president scott kirby and trade organization leaders testified before a senate ban on the current state of airline travel and consumer protections. they include -- ahead of the national consumers lead. the hearing took place this morning and we'll show it to you again now. >> the hearing will come to order. certainly pleased to have our witnesses today. and members of the committee, we'll all try to minimize the time we spent talking so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those certainly impossible to ignore the public out cry with things of incidents that's involved of passengers recently as i i believe as yesterday, one of the most widely reported innocencidents chicago of united flight 37. we'll hear lessons learned from the airlines and the industry today are today in looking at what happened, sarah cantwell and i along mr. nelson, really sent an immediate letter. that letter says the last thing paying airline customer to expect is fizziphysically takin the airline. the purpose is to follow up on the letter we sent and the responses we got a

back with me tim neftaly, mike shields, admiral john kirby., i know earlier you said it was awfully naive for jared kushner to embark on something like this, so david, i'm wondering, you know, your point of view. is this naÏvety or something else behind wanting and proposing this kind of private line of communication? >> look, i want to be fair. in all these stories there has been no evidence so far of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. and it's more of these actions that are -- i agree with admiral kirby. it's, you know, either naive or something more nefarious, but it's unusual. the failure to disclose these contacts, meetings with russian officials and then a separate report, reuters reported there were two additional calls between jared kushner and ambassador kislyak that the white house had not disclosed. so, they may be innocent. there may be no conclusion but the failure to disclose these calls and these meetings and communications efforts, it keeps the story rolling forward. >> and that's part of the big problem, is it no

kirby. i exceeded my time.'m going to stay on message for the five minutes, but i wish you could in writing explain to me the refundable, nonrefundable and what the difference is in writing. with that, i recognize mr. defazio for five minutes. >> i'll try to do this very quickly. we don't have much time. first, to united, american, and alaska, how much does it cost you to change someone's booking? give me a number. you're charging people $200, $300 to change a ticket. what's your real cost? it seems like really inefficient if it costs that much. >> well, sir, the cost is not about the actual changing of the ticket. i don't know what the actual changing of the ticket costs. >> okay, so it's about being very profitable. i would observe that united got $800 million in change fees last year. $800 million. that is a lot of money. >> sir, the -- >> and there's no real cost. i mean, i realize, you said -- let's go back to overbooking. well, first, how about can you answer, southwest does not do this, so can american a

i think in fact robert kirby was one of those people. oh, he was, and he hated what i did. venom, but he was brutal. and i just felt that that was... it didn't fit in with the need to keep the balance. again, let me just say that i also made fun of the white liberals, and they also found that uncomfortable. i'm just actually looking at a quote from kirby, who said, you know, the problem is that you turn these guys like botha into something avuncular, a bit lovable, instead of — and this is the key point of his — instead of the horrible lethal fascists that they actually were. now if you accept... that is a very fair criticism. it is a very fair criticism. i did not turn them into the hitlers, i didn't turn them into the hitlers. i turned them into the idiots that they were. the obscenity of what we took for granted — the group areas act, the population registration act, where every year helen suzman would ask the question, how many south africans were reclassified? so every time that came out 125 coloureds became white, seven whites became indian, three indians became malay

that's what needs to be cleared up, but i'm exactly where john kirby is.vestigation go forward. let director mueller do his job and his team do their job and see where the chips fall. >> i want to -- can i switch gears,ed a airline kirby. i want to talk to you about this horrible terror attack in manchester that we were reporting on last night and all today on cnn. president trump responded by calling people -- the people responsible evil losers. we don't have to play it, but i just want to get -- they said it was the president's decision to use that word. >> yeah. >> what's your reaction to his choice. >> not the word that i would have used. a better word to describe these -- these people, if you're going to use a word is murderer. it's against the teachings of muslim -- of islam, it's against the koran to murder, to take a life, an innocent life and that's what they are doing and we saw that, you know, in spades here with what looks like an isis -- at least an isis-inspired attack. i would have used the word murderer, a word they don't like and i don't k

kirby: i'm not sure, congressman. rep. defazio: but there are some? mr. kirby: right. rep. defazio: you're talking about zigzags on that. again, in looking at this, it seems to me the most frequent cause of that now is inadequate capacity. for instance, everybody wants to land about the same time, so then you have to start flying zigzags to get there on radar approach because you can't land more than one plane at a time when you've only got one runway or two planes if you've got enough separation. so, and you know i recommend the , article to you. i know you're advocating privatization and to others advocating it. , you really should read this article. he says don't overpromise. he's particularly critical. mr. mcgee do you have any , comments along those lines? right now, we're hearing about customer issues and that. we're hearing about concentration of the industry and very little choice for people, particularly in the 55 or so airports that are one and 150 that are 50% more than one airline. the question now if we give control to air traffic of the airlines, effective con

kirby? >> yes, sir. >> all right. well, thank you very much. >> i thank the gentleman. with that, ms. norton is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i know you must have received messages from a number of us after the first incident about the need for more oversight by this committee of the customer service part of what the airlines do for us as a nation. i want to say to our witnesses, you may think you're looking at members congress, but really you're looking at your customer base, except for a few of us, perhaps me chiefly among them, because i represent the people who live in the nation's capital. most members of congress get on an airline every single week. frequent fliers who do weekly monitoring. i can't imagine why we haven't had a hearing like this based on what my colleagues go through. now, when it comes to business in the united states, i expect and have seen competition solve most of our problems. but essentially you represent four regional monopolies. so you've been able to do anything you want to do. add on fees, basic servic

. >> i'm going to bring in john kirby. when he was asked about the word honored, why would he be honored to talk with him. sean spicer said, look, it would be diplomatic piece to this. what would the diplomatic piece to this be. >> maybe he's sending a message to the president of china that he needs to be aggressive in terms of what they are trying to get done. i frankly don't think there was a lot of craft put into this. i think he just said it. i don't think he could explain why he said it. it was an inappropriate use of the word honored. here's a man racing towards nuclear weaponry to challenge the existence of not only south korea but partners rejob. so using honor is inappropriate in that regard. >> there is no current diplomatic pieeace. >> am i mistaken to say that. but what do you make of this statement that this invitation tr a visit to the president of the philippines who does not have a good human rights record to say the least he's killed thousands of people. i'm going to get your reaction on the other end. let

kirby, you said you had to overbook flights to keep flights low. i can't remember the last time the united states fare was lower than a southwest fare. how are you able to do it at southwest? >> just a couple things. and we appreciate your business in corpus christi, by the way. we try to make policies that just make sense for the customer. we like you're going to travel it makes sense that you can bring your clothes along with you. and so, specifically, regarding the overhead bins, the no check bag fees allow people to check their bags. so we actually have more bin space because they're checking the bags. and again, we strive to keep costs low. it's always been a tenant of our airline business, all the way back. and keeping costs low like having no bag fee. finally, we believe we get more business overall because we do not charge fees. >> mr. munoz, if the very much publicized incident that probably lent to this hearing, the reason you were trying to get people off, you were trying to move a crew to get to another airline. united is my primary car

don't laugh when i'm building you up, kirby.y from the whole heft of the moment. >> made my day, made my day. >> tell us, when you look at this trip, just from the onset, give us a good plus-minus here in terms of the potential advantages here and the concerns. >> look, i think it's very commendable and laudible, in fact, that he's going to rijad for his first part of the trip. it shows where he wants to place his priorities and gives him the opportunity to delve into and develop, at least articulate, a long-term strategy for the mideast and get through the shia shif s shia-sunni challenges that are there. i think he has some opportunities. he also has some great strategic opportunities when he goes to europe, because you have now countries that are shaken a little bit with his comments on nato and the development of multilateral institutions, those same institutions that have secured european safety and security for 18 years. he has an opportunity to shore that up. i hope he takes it. i hope he's thinking in larger, strategic t

john kirby is with us near washington.d, the chancellor is as you know campaigning for reelection right now. put her comments which were very strong into context for us. >> they certainly are very strong. they also are causing a big stir in germany as well with people openly asking what does that mean for the transatlantic alliance? what does this mean for the u.s. and germany. angela merkel is on the campaign trail. however she's also a very reserved politician. she doesn't make off the cuff remarks. she will have thought very carefully about what she was saying and also the context in which she was saying it in. and it really seems as though during the past week with president trump's visit there to europe both to brussels and to italy that certain things were said that really alienated the ge germans as far as trade is concerned. especially some of the things that he said about some of the other nato partners which is why the germans then said look, we have to take things into our own hands. i think ma merkel means that

john kirby, you saw dana bash's report about the fake russian document that fbi director at time jamesey knew he had. it clearly influenced his decision making to go public last july in that extraordinary news conference on hillary clinton e-mail server. >> i wouldn't want to get ahead of director comey and his thought process. clearly we will never know. really, if this thing leaked, what it would have done. there is no way to predict that. take a couple of steps back and think about if this reporting is true, what it means. not the threat of a leak, but just the perceived potential after leaked document that we knew was fake in advance. and what that could do to the investigation and to the election. this is the degree to which the depth to which the russians doubted the system. that's the big story. >> if that documented leaked to the public, there would have been a whole bunch of anti-hillary clinton folks conservative media others that would have believed there was some conspiracy going on between the attorney general and hillary clinton campaign to cover up any wrongdoing on her

strong words, john kirby, from -- she doesn't simply throw out words casually.etty precise. >> very measured. very deliberate. it is an extraordinary statement. her prime minister came out later and says that u.s. policies are against those of the european union. i haven't heard that rhetoric in a long time. through nato, providing a force multiplier for forces around the world and increased our national security here at home. it is extraordinary to me that our strongest ally in the continent, germany, would feel that way. >> i remember in brussels, at the end of nato summit, she had a speech which she said this is not a time to build walls, it is time to tear down walls. that's because of the mexico border wall. new president of france, emmanuel macron, called the state-run russian today and sputnik news organizations. organs of influence and prop began saturday whi propaganda while standing right next to putin. is it unusual to see someone stand up to putin in that way? not necessarily a u.s. official to stand up to putin in that way? >> understandable in the

john kirby, you're a former spokesman for the pentagon as well as the state department. the president said the meeting with the russian foreign minister in the oval office was very, very successful. he didn't go into any elaboration on the controversy that has erupted. that some classified information could have been compromised as a result whaf of what he told the foreign minister and the russian ambassador, but he did tweet this this morning. he said as president i wanted to share with russia at an openly scheduled white house meeting which i have the absolute right to do facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety, humanitarian reasons, plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. then he tweeted a little bit later, i have been asking director comey and others from the beginning of my administration to find the leakers in the intelligence community. give us your analysis of what has unfolded now since last night when the story first broke in "the washington post." >> it seems to me like this is just you indicati justificati

joining me is john kirby. thanks very much.l in the relationship. i wonder, though, you've been on trips like this before. will the president and his team get a different, more critical message in private? >> i think it's possible that at lower staff levels they might hear a little bit more. i want to caveat by this by saying i don't know what the third party nation was that provided this to the white house that was divulged to the russians. it's possible that they could hear it at the lower level. i doubt seriously it would come up in face-to-face meetings with president trump and benjamin netanyahu. it probably would have already occurred by other means but i don't think it will be a major sort of issue when they sit down to talk. >> i notice with interest today, i'm sure you did as well, president vladimir putin, generously offering to provide a transcript of the meeting to help out the president. it struck me that this was state-sponsored trolg state-sponsored trolling by the russian president. >> i'm not sure whether he ta

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so let's discuss with cnn military and diplomatic analyst admiral john kirby.kesperson for both the state and defense departments during the obama administration. and cnn politics reporter ed tor at large. let me begin with a little sound from mr. trump during the campaign trail. roll it. >> people taking the fifth amendment. four people plus the guy illegally did the server. >> that was september. is this another case of the president's past tweets or remarks on the trail? >> it is. he says and does many things that he then says and does the exact opposite and has little price to be paid. but when you say things like that, i think donald trump is channel iling what the bulk of e public thinks about when someone pleads the fifth. obviously, local reasons to do so of what most peel are pleading the fifth. for donald trump, no direct issue here with flynn. though what flynn knew when e he knew it, what donald trump knew about michael flynn, remember this is one of the first guys donald trump hired. this is one of his closest al allies. this is a guy on november 1

john kirby and elise are still with us. john, the notion, the theory is that with this iranian fear that the saudis, egyptians, the moderate sunni arab states have, maybe you bring them into this peace process. they have a lot of money to contribute that the p palestinians, whether it the west bank and working together with isreal and the united states, you can come up with some sort of two state solution. that's the u.s. goal right now. >> yes. he's clearly trying to use iran as a unifying element. he's putting his finger on the sunni whchlt you sunni. when you put your thumb on the scale in terms of the muslim faith like that, you are making it a little bit harder to get long-term peace in the region which is what he says he wants. i also think, again, you've got to think of domestic politics and isreal don't really lend themselves to finding a so collusion to the israeli/palestinian conflict. it could take some time. but you notice what you didn't hear. you didn't hear either guy talk about the two-state solution. that's

kirby. >> the same, congressman. one thing i would add communication is important in those situations. we have minimum guidelines for intervals between communication updates that we ask our staff to adhere to. we also ask captains who we know customers have deep respect for in certain situations to also provide an update. >> thank you. >> congressman, the same thing. we treat those follow on cancellations the same way. we provide vouchers for hotels and meals and those types of things. it's constanley to take care of the customer. >> likewise for us at american, as i mentioned before service recovery is one of our top priorities. i think your experience is illustrative of the importance of that. when we got into irregular operations meaning not only are we communicating with customers but providing options and providing compensation, so that's something that will be as well. >> mr. mcgee. >> thank you, congressman. your joke about flying to london and back may not have been as you think. two years ago i was on a delt

. >> reporter: aaron kirby's flight to ohio was on time. but they were held up in memorial day weekend traffic jams. >> we knew it would be a hassle. >> reporter: british airways passengers face long lines. the flight to london was canceled. so were all flights out of heathrow. the company blamed a major i.t. system failure. >> we believe the root cause was a power supply issue. we have no evidence of any cyber attack. >> extremely frustrating. especially if you have a connection. >> reporter: julio is trying to start his fa indication in italy. he waited in line for answers. thinking of his big plans. >> we have hotels booked. we have car rentals. we have all sorts of stuff already lined up. >> reporter: christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> let's take a live look outside. and at the bay bridge toll plaza, you can see the traffic trying to get into the city. they are estimating that about 40 million people will be traveling over this holiday weekend. 15 miles or more is the criteria there. that's the most in 12 years. 40 million people. w

. >>> let's bring in our specialists and john kirby, let me start with you. surprisingly we didn't hear president trump call this manchester attacker a radical islamic terrorist. he came up with a new term evil loser. what do you make of that shift? >> i don't know if it will be a long-term shift. he chose to use evil loser. think he's trying to find a word that denigrates and delegitimizes him, stock right out of a time as a ceo and reality game show host. that said, i think if you're looking for something that really can matter to these jihadis, and i'm not an expert on their lexicon you want to pick out a word like murderer. they have murdered moris lambs than any type of islam and it's against the teachings of the koran. murderer, if you're looking for another word it better than evil loser and if it works and it delegitimizes them, it will resonate with western audiences but i'm not so sure if it will resonate with jihadis. >> stunning testimony from the former cia director john brennan. this was the most explicit testimony we've heard so far from direct

i think one of the things you're going to see is what john kirby was talking about, a lot of the europeanountries first of all will work closely together with one another. it's an interesting thing for european cohesion. the europeans are working together a lot more closely at least the continental european ones. but you're also seeing them gravitate towards asia more, countries like germany with a big export sector and in terms of climate policy trying to deepen and forge relationships with china specifically. tomorrow you have the chinese prime minister going to berlin and having meetings with angela merkel. going to be develops very interesting what those two will be talking about, what sort of agreements they'll come to in light of some of the things merkel has been saying about the trump administration and if the president does make good on his campaign promise to get out of that captain climate agreement. >> fred pleitgen in london, amy, thanks so much. important discussion. coming up, a devastating suicide blast during morning rush hour. at least 90 people are dead. the death toll

joining me now, david horowitz, editor of "the times of israel," arsalon iftikar, and john kirby, cnnormer state department spokesman. john, let me begin with you, as you saw live as we did, the images of the president making that historic visit to the western wall. he's navigating quite a lot right now. >> yeah, this is a big trip, and today's certainly a very significant part of that trip. this is as tricky as it gets from a foreign policy perspective, there's no question about that. peace between the arabs and israelis, palestinians in particular, and the israelis has bedeviled countless administrations before him, so this is tough. this is really hard. and what he needs to try to do, i think, in this visit is see if there is an opening, if there is even a chance to begin to start talks again. we haven't seen much leadership on both sides of this equation in terms of being willing to stop the violence, quit the incitement, stop the building of settlements. this is a chance for him to see if this is an opening, if that is possible. >> david, you wrote about this in an opinion piece

admiral kirby, there's two issues here. and they shouldn't be conflated. one is u.s.gence sources or law enforcement sources or somebody leaking information about the manchester investigation. then there's the president disclosing information to the russians in the oval office. >> you are right. those are two separate types of leaks of information. i'm not saying that either one is a good thing. we do need to make sure we keep them separate. you have some -- i would suspect lower level law enforcement officials putting out information to the press about this ongoing investigation which could put the investigation at risk. maybe even potentially put lives at risk as they are trying to prosecute the conspirators of this bombing. you have the president releasing in a very unscripted, unregulated way apparently very sensitive intelligence shared with us by another nation. then later announcing to the world what nation that was. that could have a chilling affect on intelligence agencies around the world in terms of their decisions to help share and continue to share inform

our cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel sed brick leighton and retired admiral john kirby. bold words from the secretary of defense. the goal to annihilate isis. this is an accelerated operation. no longer simply going to surround isis strongholds. they're going to go in there and crush them. >> yeah. this was a different approach. what he said was actually they are going to surround the strongholds and then strangle them from outside and within. in other words, not letting them escape bombings and then to live another day. that is a different tactic than what has been previously done against isis. and he also spoke about more delegation of authority. and that the president has delegated it at the appropriate level so they can move faster or a little bit more with more agility. he talked a little bit i think framed sort of what's different now than how it was done under the obama administration. >> cedric, is it going to make a difference? they've made steady progress over these last several months in this war against isis, but it's by no means over. >> that's right, wolf.

kirby, i ask your response on the size of the seats in your airline? >> i can certainly answer questions. >> you know, i would say to consider that people are getting larger in america. and the idea of making the seats smaller is not safe. >> sir -- >> i got three minutes i don't think i can make it out of a plane in three minutes. >> safety is our number one concern at united. seat size rbl, we're trying to r our customers more choice -- >> every time you want to do something, you got to pay extra. i mean, if you want a window, with an aisle, you got to pay extra. you want extra seat in the front you want extra. i know you are saying it has to do with the price of the ticket and every else. pretty soon you're going to charge to use restrooms. >> we're never going to do that -- >> you're not going to do that? >> we're not going to do that. it cost the same to fly an airplane whether you have 150 seats or 138 seats on board. essentially the same. if you take 12 seats off to create more room on the airport, you're going to have to charge more. >> if you

intelligence and security analyst, former cia operative, and cnn military and diplomatic analyst john kirby, a former spokesman for the state department. admiral, i want to start with you, because what the white house is telling our jim sciutto is that they called around after this meeting to check on how classified the information was. how sensitive the information was that the president shared. and the white house says that no one expressed any kind of alarm, no one at that meeting, including general mcmaster, who says he was there last night, expressed any kind of alarm. so, they don't see a problem, according to the white house. >> well, somebody must have been alarmed enough, john, to make a call to the intelligence community to find out the level of classification of what they said, and it must have tipped somebody off, because they wouldn't have made that call in the first place. i also think it's important to remember that according to reporting, anyway, that it was a good back-and-forth between the white house and the wi"washingt post" before that story was posted last night, so no

. >> rear admiral john kirby, david rhodes, mike shields, tim neftaly, thanks to all of you. we will hear from you very soon. we have so much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it starts right now. >>> we travel the world to strengthen long-standing alliances and to form a partnership among nations devoted to the task of eradicating the terrorism that plagues our planet. >> president donald trump speaking at a military base overseas in italy before boarding air force one ending a five-nation, nine-day swing and heading home into a cloud of new reports on the russian investigation. this time, involving the president's own son-in-law. jared kushner accused of considering -- creating a secret communication back channel with the kremlin. plus -- what the first lady revealed about herself and her marriage during this trip. cnn newsroom starts now. >> all right. this is the cnn newsroom. i'm fredricka whitfield. thanks for being with me. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> this breaking news the white house responding to an explosive new report involving the president's son-in-l

jonathan: the kirby -- the curve, flatter or steeper? matt: steeper. lisa: flatter. jim: flatter. where is the best insulation from a storm in d.c., e.m. or europe? matt: europe. lisa: europe. jim: e.m. jonathan: a little provocative. long president trump fiscal reforms? or tamer? matt: tamer. lisa: tamer. jim: tamer. jonathan: that is not what i expected to hear from any of you. there we go. my special thanks to matt hornbach, lisa abramowicz, and jim barrineau. from new york, that is it for us. we will see you next friday at 12:00 new york time. this is "bloomberg real yield." ♪ ♪ mr. buffett: i said, "what do i do with this money?" he said, "investing it is about assigning the right use for the money." i did not want to go to college. my dad wanted me to go to college. i had $175,000. i thought that was all i would need to live the rest of my life. david: did you ever run into that guy again? mr. buffett: he needs protection now. david: when you had your first annual meeting, how many showed up at that? mr. buffett: we had about 12. you have to count my aunt katie and my uncle

. >> reporter: aaron kirby's flight to ohio was on time. but they were hello up in hoermd weekend traffic jams. >> we knew it was going to be a hassle. >> reporter: british airways passengers faced long lines. the afternoon flight to london were canceled. so were all flights out of heathrow and gatt wick. the company blamed a major i.t. system failure. >> we believe the root cause was power supply issue. we have no evidence of a cyber attack. >> extremely frustrating. >> reporter: actualio is planning to start his vacation in italy. he waited in line for answers thinking of his big plans. >> we have hotels booked, car rentals all sorts of stuff already lined up. >> reporter: i'm told that there were also 21 cancellations here today. reporting live at sfo, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you christie. >>> travel delays on the roads as well this holiday weekend. a live look near the bay bridge toll plaza. it was the same type of situation an hour ago. it is jammed up trying to get into the city. we will keep you posted on travel i

he should have been honest with us he was not. >> rear admiral kirby what do you expect russia to do with information like this? and also, the reporting from cnn earlier was that rex tillerson's statement sounded like it was coordinated with the white house didn't come from the state department itself because a lot of state department people had no idea that the statement had even been made. >> yeah so on the second part i have talked to colleagues at the state department. it seems like this was moving -- the statement was moving so fast the white house wanted to present one koort natured set of cabinet officials statements you a all a they wanted to rip the band aid not everybody in the communication shop was red in on what was said. i honestly have never seen that happen before. but it does -- i dough dough do see the logic there moving fast. on the first question anderson it depends on what kind of information it was. i will just say this. the russians are not only not friends particularly in syria they are acting in an innijle way to our interests in syria. directly oppose attent

i want to go to john kirby who you of course know and our viewers know. he was the state department spokesman, also spokesman for the pentagon. john, let me give you a chance to respond here to michelle's reporting. she was the one who told two senior state department officials that a statement had come out from the secretary of state. so the state department didn't know about it. it came from the white house. how shocked are you? >> i'm stunned. i mean i think it just speak to a level of dysfunction at the state department in terms of at least the communications effort that i think is truly remarkable. i can't remember a single time -- and i worked for two secretaries of defense as well as a secretary of state where the principal, the cabinet official put out a statement, a public statement about something this big where the communications staff and the staff in general wasn't aware, wasn't tracking it, wasn't helping edit it, wasn't pushing it out. >> does it open the door to the fact of whether the secretary of state even knew? >> i think it probably -

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