sometimes i wonder if pete buttigieg and transportation secretary because he is a good-looking young just smiles a lot, because he has been in my opinion a complete failure so far. >> tomi: or they've had a nice profile coming up high hopes for them any hope that they deliver and sometimes it does not work out, and that is certainly the case with pete buttigieg, but what are his qualifications to have this role, the former mayor of south bend, indiana, and then he failed presidential candidate, i mean, really not much in the way of securing a transportation or doing any anything. >> cheryl: i was focusing on, good looking guy, i will say that, but focusing on the fact that if you look at his resume and his qualifications, he cannot get potholes fixed when he was the mayor of southbound, so i think that that is another journalist pointing out the fact that he keeps these big platitudes coming out between his interview saying we are going to take care of the problem, we are on it, but we had two massive travel meltdowns, and he has, that's what i'm saying, i think he is coming up short

that's what pete buttigieg said.described the culprit as a damaged database file with no evidence of a cyber attack. pete buttigieg said there was no evidence of a cyber attack. it was just your garden variety software error. shutting down all commercial air travel in this country is a very serious thing to do. u.s. airlines air travel is essential and dangerous. one day our system shut down for no real reason. is that what you are telling us? yes, explained pete buttigieg with a straight face. most people seemed to think this. we were not convinced. the next day, last thursday, the same thing happened this canada. that was very strange. the u.s. and canada have separate aviation authorities. they are different countries. each country uses its own software to route pliance. the systems are not linked to each others -- planes. 24 hours after our system went down, canada's system went down also. the canadian government said its system experienced an outage. what are the odds of that? on new year's day something similar

the white house slams "axios" for reporting on the historic crises under pete buttigieg who just called the first faa grounding of airplanes nationwide, quote, a data point. and the stunning new video inside of the amtrak train that stranded passengers for a day 1/2. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. got to check of your money. stocks bouncing higher, inflation cooled to 6 1/2% in december. 10-year bond yield used for bank loan rates dropping below 3 1/2%. companies kick off earnings this week. big banks are reporting here is the deal. wall street setting the bar low. they're expecting s&p 500 profits to drop for the first time since the pandemic, potentially 10% down. now to attorney general garland appointing a special counsel to probe national security violations in president biden's miss land mishandling ever top secrete classified documents. these discoveries. the all three locations were not secure. fox news's peter doocy at the white house with more. >> reporter: liz, white house officials are insisting from the tom d

we know that pete buttigieg has been in touch with the faa. we were seeing delays and departures earlier today but now that the nationwide ground stop is in place, that makes it officials, no flights leaving airports until the issue is resolved. notams are the things that pilots need to read. there's never been an issue like this in the airspace system i have seen. i've been flying, pilot since 2007, both of my parents were pilots, i'm a flight instructor. there's never been something like this in the national air system before. it cannot be understated how big of an impact this will have. even if it's fixed by the faa. there likely will be a ripple effect. think about the southwest issue just a few weeks ago when they had back end infrastructure issues that caused their schedule to meltdown and that happened for days and days. so we will see if the faa is able to get the system back online and what the lingering impact of this will be, don. >> and this is the notice to air missions system. this is not the airlines' fault. >> i ap not. >> it's

so the president has tasked pete buttigieg and his team to investigate this.t is like kennedy you and i going out and borrowing some girlfriends shoes and running them and i put you in charge of investigating me and i investigate you. right? [laughter] over cocktails, exactly. so i do think this is critical enough and this has happened within airline, not the same as something similar with technology doing a role and accountability necessary for all of this. maybe we have somebody outside the loop. take a look. >> raymond: particularly when it is impacting commerce and travel for an entire day, how many -- >> harris: and safety there. >> emily: this entire system is very vulnerable, we know t this. it makes me scared why it's the government that then looks into it and has oversight because to me the largest hemorrhage of finances and common sense would be the government. especially this one under the submits ration. coming up, as thousands of migrants cross into the country illegally, the mexican president will tell mike praises biden for not adding one more i

transportation secretary pete buttigieg facing growing backlash.debacle this week has been decades in the making. democrats and some in the media rushing to the president's defense as he faces a special counsel investigation. >> i think this president has been very forthcoming, unlike the previous president. >> i think anyone reviewing the situation will be considering is was this inadvertent. >> it sounds suspicious that all of this is coming out right now. >> julie: you heard that? a democrat congressman saying the classified files may be part of some kind of conspiracy? the power panel debates next. s ? -he's cleaning the trash cans. oh, boy. meeting a new young homeowner for the first time is a unique challenge. -so you think you can help? -i can try. hey, what you doing? oh, just cleaning my trash cans. wow. it's important to build trust. see you put your address and phone number on here. well, you can never be too safe. with trash? progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto -when you bundle

the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg monitoring, also the white house as well.ollins is in washington d.c. with information on that. what is the president saying, if anything? what is happening? >> he actually is set to leaf the white house in a few moments we'll see if he comments on this t . he has been in contact with pete buttigieg, who's been in contact with the faa about this. the press secretary said right now there's no evidence of any cyber attack at this point. they say biden has conducted d.o.t. to conduct a full investigation into the causes and the faa will provide updates to the white house. i do want to bring back in the congresswoman we were speaking with, she is a former navy pilot, show knows how critical the notices are to pilots as they are flying and navigating on the ground. for people who aren't familiar they're wondering why their planes are not taking off, why they're grounded, explain how critical these are to the flights. >> they used to be called notice to airmen and now notice to air missions. so incredibly important. every pilot, as

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pete buttigieg is your leading vote getter or consensus voter at this point at 22%. of a sitting president of the united states. if there is anybody on the screen right now. i would ask this of any democrat watching right now who is it that makes you excited? >> ainsley: i think he is still going to be the run. the one that they pick. >> this is a poll and how much emphasis or how much -- what's the word i'm looking for, how much confidence do you put in these polls? >> brian: i will tell you, one thing you would say is just where it is right now, it is not -- donald trump at this point was 95% over republicans when running for re-election in his camp. it shows you they are somewhat on the shelf. one things democrats do getting behind one candidate when they finally make the pick. do you guys have any standards? pete buttigieg is the worst cabinet secretary that we have seen over the last two years. if you just look at pure perform man's, what about pete buttigieg, besides his intellect and his hair make you think that he is going to be a high performing president? i

transportation secretary pete buttigieg the house this won't happen again. >> again, the needs to bencies and layers and layers of protection here. this is an incredibly complex system so complications happen all the time but we can't allow them to ever leave to this level of instruction and we won't allow them to lead to a safety problem. >> we can't allow this level of disruption, he says so how can he make sure? a new op-ed in the new york post digs into this arguing democrats care more about pete buttigieg his identity politics and if he can actually do his job. let's dig into the op-ed illiterate, this is what it says in the new york post op-ed, mayor pete's department of transportation declared wasn't gender inclusive and timber second, 2021, it should henceforth be referred to notice to airmen's, not air man. very important. mayor pete preoccupied his department scrubbing bigotry out of that acronym never occurred to the biden penetrations chief diversity higher the system itself might need some extending to. joe, you go through a lot of the people joe biden surrounded himself

fears calls for the airline and transportation secretary pete buttigieg to be held accountable congresswoman nancy mason on what needs to happen now. the worst year for market since the financial crisis of 2018. i'm asking investment strategist how to position your portfolio going into 2023 in a real estate reckoning what you need to know before you buy or sell a home in the year to come. but first southwest trying to resume a full flight schedule and dig out from the mess after canceling 15000 flights. passengers have finally made it home are trying to find and recover their luggage critics are slamming southwest outdated systems and communication pilot say this did not come as a surprise. >> all the employees doing everything we can at the end of the day southwest was not prepared and this is a decade in the making we sounded alarm bells we've tried to get them to change process but it's a combination of process outdated technology and infrastructure. >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg had this to say. >> their system has completely melted down and i'll make clear our department wi

that is where pete buttigieg found himself in january 2021. unfortunately for a nation, mayor pete did not ignore and took swift action. buttigieg located the problem, racist roads. there is racism physically built into our highways mayor pete announced. in his voice iron resolve of a man with bigotry and asphalt. a man that can feel the wheels under his lek tri vehicle. by november of that year, buttigieg ordered every freeway in the bronx for racism. underpass trucked gus carrying black and puerto rican kids to a beach in new york, obviously reflects racism. obviously. makes sense. probably identified we should point out, mayor pete didn't tear down and rebuild these racist overpasses in the bronx, construction is not his thing. enough to call him racist and move on. core to the new information of the transportation department. if a single transwoman of color has a bad day in this country, we as a nation have failed. mayor pete flies private. he didn't have an experience. he knew something more important. he knew the faa beset by structural m

. >> yes because secretary pete buttigieg respects the secretary in the work that is been doing, and you seen the secretary on tv he's problem you probably spoken to him yourself and they are doing everything they can to make sure that the experience that americans have, is a good one that's why they tell the airlines accountable and we seen with the secretary do this over and over again and we understand, when americans have been going through these past couple of months and that is why the secretary is very clear on making sure that they were held accountable and put in the processes in place to make sure that occurs and yes, the president has confidence in pete buttigieg. >> on the document how can anybody be that irresponsible, is that with the president said about these classify dark misconduct personally he spoke to them personally any again, he believes that classified documents and information it should taken seriously and he takes them seriously and he was surprised to learn by any records and i disagree i disagree coming here is what happened, well let me explain to view th

let's listen to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. this is on his watch, his department.says this is what we know so far. >> we have to understand how this could have happened in the first place, why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disrupted this time. >> any indication that there was a cyberattack involved? >> there's been no direct evidence or indication of that. >> that's comforting, if true, that it's not a cyberattack. you mentioned the redundancies in the system. yound stand this better than most. a lot of investments, yes, but perhaps maybe done in the wrong way. obviously you want passenger safety. you want these safety -- any new safety thing you can put into the system, you want put into the system right away. in the digital age where you can pick up your phone and find out where your package is being shipped from london to the united states or from california to costa rica and you can pick up your phone and see where it is. why can't we do a better job of lining up the planes, having a plan b, plan

it could be the fact that new hampshire has loved pete buttigieg from the outset when he did this in is it time to, you know, everything we talk about, the attacking of the economy under one president joe biden? or could this all be a theory, ashley, democrats are fully in the process of beating up joe biden. he served his life as "a useful idiot to the democrats." and now they want him gone. >> ashley: it makes you wonder how frustrating it should be or could be for the president to be really a pull number by pete buttigieg and his time with elizabeth horn. i can't imagine a sitting president would be happy about that but i also wonder if a lot of it has to do with the sensitive documents alexandria was talking about. obviously that is a hot topic right now and i can't imagine democrats to be thrilled about that so it makes you wonder. if that is one of the reasons. >> todd: or alternative theory that the democrats are putting that out there and attacking phil leak document theory to get joe biden out of there. but you're .2 pete buttigieg as he done a bang-up job necessarily as his

he's going to audit that $7 billion. >> pete buttigieg promised that he'll pressure southwest airlineso make amends of tens of thousands of customers left stranded during christmas. they'll have to do a whole lot more than that to keep the airlines accountable. we are back with the panel. katherine, so pete buttigieg insists the airlines will make amends here but as bernie sanders both pointed out this week he tried to pressure the airline already on some important issues and walked away empty handed. >> certainly, secretary is saying that he's going to push to make sure that people are made whole and it was a dias disasdisasterou disasdisasts over the holiday weekend for people. yeah, he's saying he's address this. he's facing pressure from the left and right on how this is going to unfold and what kind of measure he'll put in place and what kind of checks will be put on-air lines going forward and how he'll make whole. there is a lot more to this that we'll see how it will unfold and how it will be resolved. >> let's talk title 42 now, richard, supreme court justice neil gorsuch blas

biden's campaign ahead of 2020 presidential election in it slamming, then presidential candidate pete buttigieguary 2020 after iowa democratic caucuses days before new him ashire primary boat beauty winning iowa caucuses, deleted in december 2020 after biden announced buttigieg would lead transportation department tiana? tiana: i think mayor of 299th -- city south bend indiana pete buttigieg's kwafks other than fact a good campaigner, but practically what is best basis to run transportation department realistically mcken see thing ruled like one no experience evidenced by lag in containers waiting in ports. jackie: and latest southwest. >> worst part at that point southwest wasn't his fault more software error than anything internally in southwest but track records so poor no one he is coming out to defend them. jackie: to clarify i realize there was technology, but they had taken all covid money, right like the other airlines did, didn't spent to upgrade infrastructure to avoid problems like that travel delays all kinds of stuff happening this summer, they didn't have a heads-up here is buttig

pete buttigieg tweeted this i have been in touch with faa this morning, about an outage affect heing a key system for providing safety information to pilots, it is working to resolve the issue swiftly safely so air traffic can resume normal operation will continue to provide patriots again no intelligence there from pete buttigieg, joining us aviation analyst former faa safety team representative kyle bailey thanks very much for weighing in we appreciate your knowledge, experience, in this area. please tell us, how you see it. >> you know, this was cadeing problem longer goes ongoing to be more effects throughout the entire system unlike regional you know from say individual airlines this is the entire system united states affecting basically every single aircraft gathering so longer this goes on it is going to just cascade into flight delays cancellations, possibly for days. maria: tell me about this system, and why it is so critical, for pilots, to be able to have this communication. in terms of the inventories on the ground, when they are looking to land, why -- and what is the vu

pete buttigieg.pass, instead of serious work like this, you cannot purt fundamentally up sere yuserious people like this, who have now idea about how real things work in this world, put them in change of things, some people's leavings depend on this. -- briefs depend on this, you can't let them near this. elizabeth: she is focused on checking identity po boxes, and transportation focused on justice, it is uninjustice who families are delayed to go to funerals. >> the latest faa disaster, you had the pilot information system shut down. this is not like you know a glitch in an airline that made you know people's boarding passes expire or you know some scheduling thing. this was the system that faa uses to alert pilots where and when they can l land their planes filled with humans, this was not a minor glitch of a scheduling system, this was a life and death system, this so bad, when the system went out, the faa turned to their back up system, they are supposed to have in place to safely land planes ful

that doesn't say much for pete buttigieg.e with the supply chain crisis. he was on paternity leave when the ships were off the coast in california. and he was on vacation in portugal when they tried to negotiate with the rail workers and goes back and forth to new york city and doesn't use a shuttle like every one of us. he is airing gant and doesn't know what he is doing -- arrogant and doesn't know what he is doing. >> the judge brings up the infrastructure. they took $1-trillion. where did it go. too early to condemn this? >> a little bit. >> i don't care. i don't think we are early enough. worse than water gate and 9-11 and jesse's show. >> you have one cabinet secretary and he is always looking into it. the inclusive part is one of the things they did in december of 2021 they changed it from notice to air men to notice to air missions. >> thank god! >> air men is so offensive. >> we solved that big problem. >> the other reason this not a terrible thing for americans to go through right now is to ask ourselves a question:

. >> file a bill that would require pete buttigieg to fly commercial until these issues are figured outwilling and ready to take all three children together. >> missing massachusetts mother ana walshe want custody of the children. pleading for brian walshe to have the guts to tell the truth. >> bags and bags of food. >> hotel staffers are exposing the waste and potentially dangerous conditions at a once luxury hotel that is now housing illegal migrants. >> no safety in our job. >> the nfl safety who chanced and suffered a cardiac arrest during the game has been released from the hospital. doctors said damar hamlin can continue his rehabilitation at home and with the team. ♪ baby give me one more chance ♪ >> steve: a happy song from the jackson 5 as you look at cincinnati, ohio. good morning, folks. this is your 7:01 wake-up call. as you can see from the lights in the distance, it is a little foggy there. right now 48 degrees. 100 percent relative humidity. rainy and maybe a snowy for the next couple of hours. meanwhile come back live here to studio m in the midtown manhattan, welcome to

. >> sandra: a short answer from transportation secretary pete buttigieg on the chaos at our nation's airports. that's after all departing u.s. flights were grounded this morning following a major computer outage at the faa. >> john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today's confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don't know if hackers were to blame. >> sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it's scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we'll get to it. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. hectic morning for a lot of travelers. sandra smith in new york. >> john: some were out on the tarmac and the flight was called back. i'm john roberts in washington, what we will be watching for, including the first response from 1600 pennsylvania to those classified documents that turned up at president biden's former office. we'll dip into the

now pete buttigieg has a ton of experience.e has presided over a supply chain crisis, a railroad strike, ships and containers stuck in our oceans. rising gas prices, of course, today, the first national ground hold of flights since 9/11 when pete buttigieg was 19 years old. so he does have the experience. the man speaks eight languages none of which make any sense to we the flying public. and his department of transportation has 58,000 employees and a budget in 2023, jesse, of $23.5 billion. folks, women out there, ladies, if i gave you $1,000 more a week or a month and two extra people to help you, how different your life would be. this guy has 58,000 people and 23 and a half billion dollars and can't deliver a transportation system that is modern, that is efficient, that is safe, that is reliable. the only person that seems to have got his or her luggage on time late last year was sam briton at the department of energy and it wasn't his luggage. he was stealing it from other people. so, look, i think this is part and parcel o

. >> sean: now failed transportation secretary pete buttigieg is spewing more climate alarmism. he said every decision a climate decision. really? take a look. >> we're looking at investments that are fair. we're looking at climate impacts because every transportation decision in the 21st century is a climate decision whether or not we recognize it or not. >> sean: every decision? the recent faa outage, the southwest airlines debacle? all of those were climate change issues? meanwhile, the biden white house continues to be on the fence about failed policies. with energy secretary grand home down playing concerns about the strategic petroleum sales to china and the white house calling it a nonissue. even as the reserves are now at the lowest level since 1984? oil prices now on the rise yet again. here with reaction, former white house chief of stance, reince priebus and joe concha. reince, i start with you. lowest level since the 80s when the price was cheaper. that was supposed to be for emergencies. democrats potentially losing an election because of high gas prices, that doesn

transportation secretary pete buttigieg is joining city officials to discuss fund to go repair the iconic structure. pete suratos is joining us live with details. pete, $400 million is a lot of money. where is that money coming from? >> reporter: good morning to you. yeah, you mentioned transportation secretary pete buttigieg in san francisco speaking in front of the golden gate bridge. he was joined by a number of officials, former house speaker nancy pelosi, as well as san francisco mayor london breed. they discussed the $400 million that is going to be used for fund whg it comes to retrofit, specifically dealing with the golden gate bridge. this was announced earlier this month, the u.s. federal highway administration making that announcement. the money is going to come from the $1 trillion federal infrastructure package that was approved in 2021. it will be used to retrofit the bridge when it comes to earthquakes. here is the transportation secretary speaking not too long ago about the importance of funding when it comes to this bridge. >> it's very much a working piece of infrastruct

transportation secretary pete buttigieg today joining local leaders to officially announce hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money for the bridge. charles clifford reports. >> well, the golden gate bridge is 90 years old and it was decided after the loma prieta earthquake decades ago that the bridge is in need of some seismic safety upgrades. now we're learning that the federal government is going provide 400 million dollars to complete that work on monday. transportation secretary pete buttigieg, along with nancy pelosi, san francisco mayor london breed made the announcement the money, which is being provided through a grant as part of the infrastructure investment and jobs act signed into law back in 2021 will be used to improve the seismic safety of the bridge. specifically they're going to retrofit the towers and improve some of the foundations and beams on the bridge. the golden gate bridge was just one of 4 bridges nationwide to receive funding in this round. it was chosen not only because of its historical significance, but also because the bridge is a key piece of infr

but understand, pete buttigieg does not really want to either the secretary of transportation, he issident. that is what he is doing he is out there talking about roe v. wade everything else, not serious about this job he wants to be the leader of the free world. jackie: are congressman-elect troy nehls get a to see you this morning thank you so much, sir. >> thank you. god bless. jackie: initial jobless claims moments from now we are back with number snapshot on economy, with former actingw white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ bath remodeling was revolutionized in this garage in 1984, when three brothers created the iconic bath fitter tub-over-tub process. a breakthrough then, the industry standard now, for beautiful baths without the mess, stress or high cost. a better way from bath fitter means precise measurement, the highest quality acrylic perfect preparation and watertight installation backed by a lifetime warranty. bath fitter. it just fits. visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation. why are 93% of sleep number sleepers satisfied with their

we do have a tweet from secretary pete buttigieg, saying he is in touch with the faa about the adage outage, working to resolve the issue. we saw a tweet come in from the press secretary saying that the president has been briefed by the secretary of transportation on the faa system outage. so far, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. the president directed the department of treasury to conduct a full investigation into the causes of this. of course, we will update you with all of this. we are at the airport. so far, everything is on time. we will continue to update you on this. >> this could make for a very messy travel day for many people. >> you know more about what is going on. >> the big thing right now is the system is not working. this is the notice to the airman. you have to check this to make sure the flight routes are okay , that there are no hazards along the route. without that, the pilots cannot get up. hopefully they get that fixed soon. we will keep you updated. >>> atmospheric river is pushing in strong this morning. we will catch a break on the thursday forecast. i

transportation secretary pete buttigieg join local leaders to officially announce hundreds of millions of dollars and federal money for the bridge kron four's chuck clifford has that story. >> well, the golden gate bridge is 90 years old and it was decided after the loma prieta earthquake decades ago that the bridge is in need of some seismic safety upgrades. now we're learning that the federal government is going provide 400 million dollars to complete that work on monday. transportation secretary pete buttigieg, along with nancy pelosi, san francisco mayor london breed made the announcement the money, which is being provided through a grant as part of the infrastructure investment and jobs act signed into law back in 2021 will be used to improve the seismic safety of the bridge. specifically. they're going to retrofit the towers and improve some of the foundations and beams on the bridge. the golden gate bridge was just one of 4 bridges nationwide to receive funding in this round. it was chosen not only because of its historical significance, but also because the bridge is a key piec

please welcome home department of transportation secretary pete buttigieg. [applause] sec. buttigieg: what a treat. thank you so much for the warm welcome. thank you mayor lawrence for your leadership and introduction. it always feels good to be among america's mayors. we have a lot to talk about so thank you for having me. i will begin by recognizing that the job of mayor has only become more demanding and more vital since i wore the title not that long ago. i want to salute the leadership of america's mayors. as mayor myself, i always looked forward to the winter meeting as one of the things in the year that i was always ready for because it brought the chance to compare experiences with peers but also the opportunity to connect with the administration and to make sure we understood how to use federal tools in order to help serve our residents and make sure that washington understood our needs on the ground. through the pandemic, and many other challenges, we faced choices that were unimaginable to municipal leaders just a few years ago. but to also say that i can only ima

. >> president biden: i spoke with pete buttigieg. they don't know what the cause is. i was on the phone for ten minutes and told him report directly to me when they find out. aircraft can still land safely, just not take off right now. they don't know what the cause of it is. they expect in a couple hours they will have a sense of what caused it and we'll respond at that time. >> karine jean-pierre just tweeted this. the president has been briefed on the department of transportation. no evidence of a cyberattack at this point but a full investigation will be put in. we'll provide regular updates. when president biden was asked again whether a cyberattack was to blame he insisted to reporters the white house doesn't know. listen. >> president biden: we don't know. >> now pete buttigieg for his part tweeted this. he has been in touch with the faa about the outage affecting a key system for providing safety information to pilots hoping to resume normal air traffic control, which they now have done, we know. dana, the president and first lady are at walter reed hospital.

we ask secretary pete buttigieg how it could have happened in our one-on-one interview. what he told us. >>> lisa marie presley, the daughter of elvis presley, rushed to the hospital. what we're l learning. >>> and the big move in the burger wars. the beloved chain from out west finally heading back east. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening from washington, where in response to what he calls the extraordinary circumstances, attorney general merrick garland today named a special counsel to look into secret documents found in president biden's delaware home in addition to a washington office he used. extraordinary circumstances may be an understatement with one current and one former president entangled in questions over the alleged mishandling of sensitive papers that appear to belong to the national archives. democrats say the similarities end there. but the ag tonight leaving that question to what are now two special counsels examining the cases. meantime, biden lawyers disclosing the discovery of additional documents within his pr

pete buttigieg again caught flying government airplanes, this time for media appearances when he couldabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. we begin with stocks ending up. it was choppy trading. markets are pretty cautious ahead of key inflation data this week. we're talking december cpi, plus we gottens coming in. california pounded with a barrage of severe storms and flooding. tens of thousands evacuated w we have new reports, at least 16 now dead. a five-year-old boy remains missing. to this, president biden in mexico to meet with leaders of canada and mexico. edward lawrence is in mexico city with more. he is live. edward, what is going on? >> reporter: yeah, i can tell you right now the president has had his bilateral meeting with prime minister of canada justin trudeau. today they had atry lateral meeting. right now president biden is speaking after the trilateral meeting. he is expected to take one question from reporter, each of the three leaders at that stage will take one question. there you have a live picture of the preside

that is pete buttigieg.spoken to him today no word yet from white house staff on how or whether this is going to impact their movement potentially even t the presidens movement today. this came across our buyers for their prison is going to be a calming the first lady to walter reed hospital today. she is having what they are calling a minor outpatient surgery. they are going to head out there this morning. "the president has been briefed which i just told you by the secretary of transportation on the faa system outage. there is no evidence of a cyber attack at this point for the president directed transportation to conduct a full investigation into the causes. the faa will provide regular updates." the secretary of transportation himself also tweeted a short while ago. he said he has spoken to the faa multiple times. he says i have been in touch with this va this morning about an outage affecting a key system for providing safety information to pilots. faa is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safety

congresswoman nancy pelosi and transportation secretary pete buttigieg promised substantial upgrades to the golden gate bridge. what's included in the latest plan announced just today in the city video of a doordash driver who stopped a carjacking of a car with a child inside. there's still some breezy conditions out there. the wind advisory has been dropped, but we still have 49 on our winds up on top of mount st helena will look at that. we'll look at the warming weather we're expecting and the five day and more on the mass shooting in monterey park down in southern california at the new clues investigators have uncovered about the shooter. and here's a look right now at the podium in half moon bay, where we are expecting a news conference at any minute now to update us on the mass shooting in half moon bay that left seven people dead late today, we will bring it to you when now, it's official. xfinity has the fastest internet and the fastest mobile service. that's right, xfinity just increased internet speeds... again! and xfinity mobile gives you can't-catch-me speeds. plus, save

is the face of this and people who have been held up today know it. >> secretary pete buttigieg needso get his act together. reporter: republicans on capitol hill tend to agree, accusing pete buttigieg of ignoring an antiquated faa computer system until it was too late to avoid a major disruption. >> chilling about this today, brian, is the fact that this is happening, its been going on. we've known about it apparently overnight and he has no idea what happened or how they are going to fix it and how long it's going to last. that is an enormous impact on our economy and travelers today. reporter: so, there's still sort ing things out. we hope to hear from the president. he's been at walter reed medical center this morning and earlier this afternoon whose having a mo hs procedure on a skin lesion above her eye but we expect them back because it's an outpatient procedure. the press sebaceous is also expected to address this within the hour, neil? neil: look forward to that peter doocy at the white house, thank you very very much. sally yates lagoni joins us an aviation attorney, a pilot

. >> ainsley: transportation secretary pete buttigieg tweeting moments ago: i have been in touch withystem providing key information to pilots. if aa is looking to resolve the issue swiftly and safely so air traffic can resume normal operations and will continue to provide updates. >> brian: cheryl casone joins us now. a big deal. can you imagine what the airports are like all across the country? >> be nice to flight crews. got a new update from the faa. they are still working to restore it's notice to air mission system. that's the information that goes to the pilots. >> steve: notam. all domestic departures to allow the agency to validate the flight and safety. they have been trying to restart this system for the last hour and a half. >> brian: good news it was 10:00. >> nows 9:00. >> steve: united 10:00. >> all airlines. report that they were getting the paperwork to the pilots like in minneapolis. i saw that report this morning. but that's not happening right now. >> steve: like that jet we just saw out at newark. that is probably a plane that has landed. and is incoming. look at

pete buttigieg overprinting of the yeutter system by referring to air missions instead of airmen hereotage from faa summit discussing how to get people to understand inclusion is just as important as air safety. >> it is interesting because safety is, you know, separate from the mission, but it is to any mission or any technical goal or any objective than diversity, equity, and inclusion in particular. so, how do we make them more the same? how do we show that important particularly with inclusion? >> emily: harris, theoretically i only speak for myself but if i'm on a plane might care more that it lands safely than the color of someone's skin who was flying it. but that is just me. >> harris: in other words, if it is plaids, blues, greens, brown, you want the sleeper seao work. >> emily: exactly. >> harris: i don't know where they are going with this but distraction is never a good thing. they seem distracted. >> emily: the largest question at all though him or, what happens to the billions of our money that we gave this government that somehow went top ideological notions that don't

the faa and transportation secretary pete buttigieg claim they grounded the planes out of caution. pilots, however, are saying the decision was extreme and the archaic system being used going down was not such a big deal. republicans say the transportation secretary needs to take ownership. >> you say confidence in the transportation administration. i think the american people would say the lack there of. when you look at what took place earlier this week. over 7,000 flights canceled. i think pete is very struggling. i think there are a lot of people that probably don't like him too much today. he has some issues. he has to get his office straightened out. >> harris: new op-ed asking the scathing question is pete buttigieg the most incompetent transportation secretary in history? fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram with the latest from capitol hill. very busy place today. >> good morning. frustration with the airline industry is monumental. the administration is defending the secretary of transportation. ron klain called whale was said a ridiculous take. buttig

. >> pete buttigieg and merrick garland address the united states conference of mayors. around noon, we will be live from the 50th annual march for life. her coverage will start following a brief health session. and later, a discussion on alleged threats. that is live at 2:00 p.m. eastern. watch all of trogrs on c-span, c-span now,linet c-span.org. or if you cannot watch live watch and are video library. look to the video library at the top of our homepage. c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies are more including media calm. add medium calm -- media calm, whether you are anywhere, you should have access to fast, reliable internet. media calm support c-span is a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. this morning on washington journal we continue our coverage of the house republican commitment to america plan. washington times reporter jeff mordock and then later we have julie rovner. "washington journal," starts now. ♪ host: good morning everyone on friday, j

us transportation secretary pete buttigieg's celebrated the grant in san francisco today. ktvu political reporter greg lee was at the ceremony where officials called the golden gate one of the most recognizable and essential bridges in the country. there is only one golden gate bridge and we are going to protect it. transportation secretary pete buttigieg's stood in front of the golden gate bridge celebrating a $400 million federal grant to improve the iconic structure carries over 100,000 vehicles a day 37 year, including over half a million freight trucks. making it a key link for supply chains, including the waterborne freight at the port of oakland secretary buttigieg's joined former house speaker nancy pelosi, san francisco mayor london breed and other federal officials to announce the funding for the final phase of a retrofit project designed to protect the bridge from a major earthquake. essentially you move from having shock pads to brake pads on this bridge. so that when that bad thing that you think might happen, should it ever happen? prepare for the worst and h

reggie: pete buttigieg coming to san francisco today, revealing more about improvements to the golden gate bridge. kumasi: relief for some commuters. after multiple mudslides, ace is returning to its normal schedule. drew: and little breezy, but will be beautiful. sunshine on the way, wins offshore, the strongest in the north bay and the delta area -- delta. napa is gusting at 33. but with the least reason red, there are no fire concerns with these winds. a mixed bag -- that wind is keeping temperature elevated in napa, but where the winds are relatively conch, like in ukiah, much colder right now. aside this morning, clear picture with the sutro bouncing around. here is the day shakes out -- a lot of sunshine, sunshine that sunrise at 7:20. mild temperatures, close to 60 degrees later. kumasi: this morning, another community in morning after another horrific act of violence. 10 killed at a dance hall during lunar new year celebrations. the motive is still a mystery. jobina: survivors exhibit they were inside the dance hall and monterey park saturday night the gunman walked in. 10 kil

they prefer pete buttigieg instead. let me stick with warren. can't help but agree with her initial take that she had to clarify. everybody is waiting for kamala harris's next word salad, next foot in the mouth. next mess. >> yes. warren should know that the only answer to that question is yes. otherwise you are going to get raised eyebrows. she made a mistake sometimes when you are doing a radio interview, you think you are just talking to your friend. you can get people to say just about anything. you think nobody is watching. can you imagine having to be in the white house and you are on the kamala harris police beat and you are looking to see? you know that republicans are going to criticize her. wait, the calls are coming from inside the house. the problems within the democratic party. i had the brain room look up how many times in history a president switched horses for reelection. it's very few times. i don't think that will happen this time. warren is getting ready i believe for a reelection run of her own. she is up in 2024. i would not

pete buttigieg says the feds are not ruling out nefarious activity in the outage.tape. >> we're not prepared to rule that out. there hasn't been any indication of that fbi has spoken to this and of course faa is looking closely at that as well as they work to see what was going on inside the files in this system leading to this irregularity. i will say there was no direct indication of external or nefarious activity but we're not yet prepared to rule that out. stuart: congressman berry laddermilk joining me. you're a pilot and you know this story. any idea what it will take to fix this problem? >> first of all, stuart, you got to find out what happened. not only am i a private pilot, i also have an it background so the two are kind of going together. if you have a corrupt data base, a reboot sometimes will fix it but if it's corrupt, that won't fix it. that's why you have a redundant system, not just a backup system but when it's a mission critical system, you have a redundant system. a system that is identical to your primary so when you have to reboot, you kick i

now, republicans including congressman andy biggs calling on secretaries pete buttigieg. listen here. >> i'm not surprised he doesn't know anything because that is consistent how he has handled any question or issue we've had in the transportation secretary overnight. and we have no idea what happened or how they will fix it and how long it will last. >> it is to important questions but what do you think really happened here and is that fair criticism? >> so let's take them backwards. for sure that is fair criticism and we have any given day about 20,000 flights over this country, 22 regions that do deconfliction and probably 5,000 airports. the notion we would allow those to just get shut down. i was in the air on 9/11 and that was the last time i remember the air system being shut down for any reason. the notion that we would somehow walk away from this and say, "i will look into this" because what pete buttigieg did is complete lack of confidence. somebody more interest in transphobia than transportation. and i think we have americans who are owed a right to understand