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Cheryl, you first. >> here's what i got for you, tucker. i think this is pretty crazy. first lieutenant john rader, he was overseas in afghanistan for two years. he was coming home finally. he had his bag. it was full of a kevlar vest, two helmets. it was over the weight limit for united airlines. they want to check and said they are going to have to pay $200. he said, come on, seriously? the gate agent and war fought him on it and made them. $200. they told him, you can put this into separate bags because we will give you five free checked bags. they can each be 70 pounds, but he had one bag ...

Cheryl, you first. >> here's what i got for you, tucker. i think this is pretty crazy. first lieutenant john rader, he was overseas in afghanistan for two years. he was coming home finally. he had his bag. it was full of a kevlar vest, two helmets. it was over the weight limit for united airlines. they want to check and said they are going to have to pay $200. he said, come on, seriously? the gate agent and war fought him on it and made them. $200. they told him, you can put this into separate bags because we will give you five free checked bags. they can each be 70 pounds, but he had one bag ...

Days. on that point everybody is in full agreement especially the hundreds of passengers last night at the fort lauderdale hollywood international airport who suddenly had trips canceled. got stranded and had their total travel disrupted. >> shannon: disrupted is a nice way of putting it. thank you very much. bill, that was phil. have you ever been -- i've been that mad at an airport. i haven't shown out like that but i've been that mad. >> bill: put a mask on it, right? >> shannon: take another lap. mr. bream may have helped de-escalate the situation and a gate agent on christmas eve. >> bill...

Don't need a restaurant bill of rights. >> when you buy an airline ticket, guys, it is called contract of carriage. if you agree to the terms on the ticket, it is there. it is 36,000 pages long. >> tucker: but why -- i buy all of that. it is different because you are a business guy and all of that stuff. but when you see a fight in hand and say, would you move, no, you want, you are going to jail. that seems pretty authoritarian, right? >> if you listen to the woman's voice, the gate agent, the supervisor, she was like, well, this is how it will go down. they tried to coax them off the plane, ...

Jordanian or emirates or qatar, then every single u.s. airline. this should embarrass americans, they should be ashamed of themselves. what happened to all they don't tell on me t-shirts i keep seeing it all the airports? you get on the plane and they tried all over you. >> mark, come on. >> tucker: you say delta is better than emirates? [laughter] >> emirates is actually a lovely airline. we got a war in the skies. each of these instances, there is always a back story. if you look at that family on the delta flight, that was leaving hawaii, the back story is, they didn't have the rights to th...