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just got his bag. every once in a while big cry go up through the island of miss fit bags with someone saying they have got their stuff and they are on their way home. its still a mess. you still have people who are stranded and cant get home. you have flight staff that cant penetrate this antiquated communication system to let the airlines know that they are available to fly people home. you have got a lot of really tired people and they are just stuck. >> our luggage is missing. its ...

Good day, im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. Congress is trying to crawl its way out of chaos, but a feeling of inevitability has taken hold on capitol hill as the Clock Barrels toward a Government Shutdown. Both chambers are trying to reach shortterm spending agreements, but will they find the votes . Millions of federal employees and contractors are bracing for impact if a showdown does happen, but how significant a toll could it take on our armed services, both at h...

Qualifications. so, mayor pete was mayor of relatively small city, south bend, indiana, what qualifies him to run the nations transportation grid. exactly nothing. but he did check a particular box and that then got him into the biden cabinet. what we have seen over the last two years is one transportation crisis after another. you laid it out really well from the supply chain crisis to the potential rail strike. to this air travel nightmare over a holiday weekend. none of this should have happe...

Thank you. >> great to see you. thanks for having me. >> tucker: you heard reference to mayor pete buttigieg of south bend. he is the transportation secretary of the united states at a moment when our transportation grid is falling apart. try to fly commercially recently? are you surprised by this? we are not that we learn the details of pete buttigiegs tenure as mayor of south bend, indiana. we will have those details straight ahead. the judge and the doctor ready to buzz in for final exam comi...

Hey, great to see you, tucker .r thanks for having me. h so you just heard reference to mayor pete booted, judge of south bend. hes now believegi not secretary ofstion the united states at a moment when our transportation grid is falling apart, try to fly commercially recentlyy. so are you surprised by this? well, were not w now that we learned the details of a judges tenure as mayor of o south bend, indiana. have a satellite for youai straight ahead. plus, the judgege and the doctor ready to bu...

Has decided to hurt this specific group of americans beer the problem is, this might not be evident to the geniuses who work in the biden administration, you cant run a country without these people. they are the ones who know how to do things. not just report to the hr department, but fix things, build things, keep the power grid going, fly your airplane, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. and it is exactly this group that is being ground to dust beneath the heel of the ideologues in the biden adm...

So systematically, they have. the mandates are only one way in which the biden administration has decided to hurt thisto specific group of americans beer the problem is, this might not be evident to the geniuses who work in the biden administration, you cant run a country without these people. they are the ones who know how to do things. not just report to the hr department, but fix things build things, keep the power grid going, fly your airplane et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. and it is exact...

President vladimir putin. we are seeing these ransomware attacks by russian cyber gangs escalate. these attempts are trying to hit every single critical infrastructure industry that we have in this country. weve seen it hit meat processing plants. weve seen it hit the pipeline. we know theyve tried to get into our voting registration systems, our transportation grid is vulnerable. while the president ordered the federal government to baton the hatches here, he cannot do that with the private sec...

Power. if he wants the votes, can he have the votes. he passed it by unanimous dissent in december. so he can get every republican senator to reopen the government, and trump can do nothing about by majority. but at what point is the political cost for his members, particularly up for re-election in 2020, at what point does he look like those costs are so high he cant tolerate those any longer? i think the question is what will be the triggering event for that? its likely if i have to guess a tr...

>> astroids are out there and surely one with our name on it, earths name and small ones will explode and take out regions and cities maybe a transportation grid. the big ones are rarer, render fractions that are rarer and take out the dinosaurs, you get one every 100 million years or so. other things that can take out life on earth are major climate change. if youre a life form that is adapted to a certain configuration or combination of temperature and atmosphere conditions, then if that chang...