landslide to a trump-backed election denier. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. cheney was defeated last night by more than a two to one margin, the surest sign yet that donald trump still has a stranglehold on the soul of the republican party. for now cheney will continue to serve as vice chair of the january 6th committee and whatever the future holds she vows to do everything in her power to keep the former president from ever returning to office. two years ago i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. that was a path i could not and would not take. it is not clear what cheney plans to do once she leaves congress. the woman who defeated her harriet hageman, had this to say in her victory speech. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power you will be accountable to us, you will a
the unforgettable scenes of desperate afghans clinging to a c-17 at the airport in kabul trying to escape the clutches of the taliban happened a year ago today. defining image of a strategic and humanitarian disaster marking the turning point of a presidency back here at home. one that we still consider today. as we say good morning. good to have you with us. i m bill hemmer and hello at home and hello to you. a i m dana perino this is america s newsroom. it has been a year but i feel like i can remember every moment of this whole two weeks that we watched it. maybe six weeks we watched the world change. heartbreaking images that stunned americans. thousands of afghans crowded the airport and ran after planes taxiing on the runway. president biden faced backlash and also from our allies for the botched u.s. withdrawal but he refused to budge. president biden: i am president of the united states of america. and the buck stops with me. i m deeply saddened by the facts we no
very clear, too, that no one, no one, including a president of the united states, is above the law. by the way, today is the six-year anniversary of that speech in indiana. happy anniversary to the president, as the fbi goes through his documents this morning. what a long road it s been. you know, he actually, i guess, in 2018, willie, he passed a law. he signed a law that actually made the protection of classified material even stronger. that is a good thing to do. it is a good thing to do. he said in the campaign law and order party. he was going to protect all classified information. so says it in the campaign. willie, he actually passes legislation. kept his word. he signs it, comes into law. that the penalties for not protecting classified information going to be even tougher because of hillary clinton s emails. yeah, remember the context of that speech six years ago was all about hillary clinton and the emails and the private server that she had.
them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at all of the interactions that investigators had with trump s team over the past several month and that s going to be all factoring in as they decide whether anyone should be charged with a crime. no one has been charged at this time. there are a lot of questions about exactly what these documents pertain to. two house committees have asked for a classified briefing as well as a damage assessment from the intelligence community and trump for his part, he is indicating that his team could try to c
we re beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel season? cnn s aviation correspondent pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. a lot of unhappy travelers this morning, pete. reporter: no doubt, john. in fact, a lot of people probably still trying to get home even today after traveling this weekend. these new numbers are huge, but the cause of this really is not. we were reporting over and over again that airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic and that has led to these massive flight crew shortages. the deck of cards really comes tum