and it was not til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it s all backed up. this is insane. i don t know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. john: begin america reports with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it s a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices. the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a
appointed christopher wray, before they got the okay from a federal judge. because of that, it certainly feels like we re on the cusp of something big. what that something is is unclear. is it a criminal indictment? legal experts say it is way too soon to say. is it a reinvigoration of president trump s political possibilities in 2024. there was a new york time polling that suggested that half of republican voters wanted someone else to run for president. someone new. is it the start of a series of wrenching politically motivated house investigations into the doj and the fbi? house republicans are promising it will be if they regain control in november. or is it the start of something ugly. something violent. in the hours after the news broke online, searches for civil war spiked. it could be all of these things and it could be none of these things. so let us sort out what we can. joining us now is nbc news correspondent vaughan hillyard who is across the lagoon in west palm
quickly? again, a clear double standards by the house democrats in the way they responded to president trump s raid. they were calling for his indictment, saying he illegally obtained the documents, and president trump said he has declassified those, and he s allowed to do this. so you are going to see house republicans led by james comer will want to look into this, jim jordan and the weaponization of the fbi and they passed the committee, so it s a big priority. would you agree, i hope they do all of that and hope they spin their wheels doing it. when former president trump was told a year and a half ago by the archivist to return all the stuff and would not do it and they went back and forth, is that the same as what you hear with biden? what we know now, there seems to be a big difference. big difference is presidential records. there was a case in d.c. where president clinton held on to
want to offend donald trump. we know he had a very public break with the former president. he held him morally responsible for january 6th. but mcconnell also needs trump s voters to turn out in the mid-term elections if mcconnell is achieve his goal of becoming the majority leader and capturing enough seats in the senate to regain that top position. now, we are seeing anything but silence. the opposite of silence from house republican leadership, as you noted. kevin mccarthy came out strongly in defense of donald trump without saying the former president s name, promising investigations into the justice department over this, and we also know that donald trump is expected to meat tonight with a group of about a dozen house republicans led by jim banks, the chair of the republican study committee. a group of about 150 house republicans who identify with the conservative wing west don t have a lead on who will be there but broadly we re seeing a major coalescing within the republican par
weeks. reporter: house republicans led by speaker john boehner wanted the white house to demanded that any funding bill delay implementation of obamacare by one year. refused to compromise at all. reporter: national parks were shut down. even the world war ii memorial in washington d.c. obama took a lot of heat. after 16 days, speaker. a funding bill that in the end even after the shutdown did not defund obamacare. we have been locked in a fight over here trying to bring government down to size.