young. i need a recovery beer. it wasn t a recovery beer. but his teammates were waiting for him in the locker room with a nice refreshing water bottle shower. now isn t that how we finish the show every morning, too? yes. that s what i do. totally what we do at 9:01. i never heard the phrase recovery beer but i love that. love it too. thanks for making our morning. you got it. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. don is off this morning. southwest airlines, though, coming under federal scrutiny as officials are vowing to hold the company accountable for the meltdown that has left thousands of passengers stranded. more flights have been canceled today and the chaos is expected to continue into the new year. also overnight, the supreme court handing a victory to 19 republican-led states as they order title 42 to remain in effect for now. she said she thought her daughter was going to die overnight because it was so cold. t
service are backing up the bombshell testimony from a former trump white house aide that an irate president trump demanded to go to the capitol on january 6th. since cassidy hutchinson went under oath, there has been an ongoing campaign by trump and his allies to discredit her testimony about what she saw and heard on january 6th. cnn has now spoken with two secret service employees who both say they also heard about a confrontation inside the presidential suv that day, a story they say spread widely around the agency in the weeks and months that followed january 6th. they say trump indeed demanded to be taken to the capitol and when the secret service said no to the trip, trump berated his security detail, saying something to the effect of, i m the effing president of the united states, you can t tell me what to do. the other concerning development is the new information about who may have been pressuring hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person
sanctions or obligations, this is not something that southwest can afford to have ever happen again. so they re going to have to do that. as your costs rise, it certainly is logical to expect fares to rise somewhat. but they also are going to be governed by the marketplace. since their competitors have better systems in place already those airlines aren t going to face increased cost. so southwest are going to have to deal with the fact that their costs are rising faster than their competitors are. scott mason, you helped us understand what s going on. thank you for your time. my pleasure. also this morning, thousands of migrants are now facing potentially months of more uncertainty after the supreme court s decision that the border restriction, title 42, is going to remain in effect for now. it was a brief unsigned order from the justices yesterday that halted a trial judge s ruling that would have lifted the measure. this is the measure that allows
critical of airports hiking the fees that they charge the airlines. and you ve cited this is one of the issues affecting airlines return to profitability. but, you know, willie, some critics will say that airports, they are facing their own inflationary pressures. any sympathy at all for the tough environment in which airports are operating? zero. zero sympathy because it s not as simple as that. airports have no business, if airlines aren t flying, if the airlines aren t bringing passengers to the airport or the airport doesn t have a viable business, they don t have an alternative. and the idea that the airport can just charge anything they like because airlines will continue to operate there, demonstrates their monopolistic, quasi monopolistic attitude to business. they re not commercial entities, and that s why we object. they don t face the same challenges that we face and they ve got to realise that the best option for them is to ensure that airlines can recover.
if the airlines aren t bringing passengers to the airport or the airport doesn t have a viable business, they don t have an alternative. and the idea that the airport can just charge anything they like because airlines will continue to operate there, demonstrates their monopolistic, quasi monopolistic attitude to business. they re not commercial entities, and that s why we object. they don t face the same challenges that we face and they ve got to realise that the best option for them is to ensure that airlines can recover. the more passengers are flying and we get more passengers flying when we keep our costs under control and we can pass on the benefit to our customers airports trying to recover losses that they made in 2022 by, you know, significant increases in their prices this year and next. that s just unacceptable. that is an abuse of their monopolistic position. one of the biggest problems the industry faced this year, you know very well. well, it is now staffing shortages, ju