funeral for one of those people a flight attendant who worked for his company for just under two years. at the same time his airline is coming under scrutiny, again, all flights to singapore have been grounded all air asia flights, that is because of some sort of permitting issue. the indonesian government says they re looking in to all of the scheduled flights for air asia to singapore at this point. air asia said they re aware of these groundings and they are cooperating with the investigation. steve, back to you. all right, thanks for that report. another full hour and a half of news and politics still ahead this morning including names you may not be thinking of as potential newsmakers in 2015. names you may hear a lot about this year. the man who could have been barack obama before barack obama was barack obama. stay with us.
absolutely right in terms of his consistent commitment for social and economic justice and for poverty and income inequality. the other thing is steve, i think we should take note of the fact that the world the world is in turmoil in many cases. not just politically but cultural as well so these are all just look at the middle east. the persecution of christians there. the killing and onslaught of christians in the middle east. the relationship among nations. even racially right here in the united states. the pope is going to come to the united states in a few months and he s going to be dealing with he s going to be addressing these kind of issues i m certain. so, the sworldworld is in turmoil, in chaos. so these issues are on his table. i don t think the world has been experiencing this kind of turmoil since the second world war. i would even include the vietnam war. that s why he s making such profound statements that get a lot of media attention.
a state legislator in 2002. i didn t necessarily have this sort of army of staffers around me to check invitations and things i was going to any group that would invite me to talk about the state budget. i had the same presentation to every group. i had an invitation to days inn s and i went and i had no idea what the nature of the group and i find out my god, it s terrible. do you beauuyou beau that explanation? i know steve scalise personally. i admire steve. he s been a great public servant in the house of representatives. i never heard and, you know, i ve been behind the scenes with steve scalise. i was there for two years. never heard a hint of any indication that he would harbor a philosophy that would be close to those that we all do. we reject any racist argument racist rhetoric. and certainly if he i feel