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hello, i'm abby philip in washington. thank you for being here today. the holiday travel nightmare is inflicting more misery across the country. more than 2900 flights in or out of the u.s. have been canceled today already. and just one airline is responsible for 90% of them and that is southwest. passengers stuck in one city, their baggage somewhere else. >> i am traveling with my son trying to go to a family wedding in miami. the next flight offered was in january, and they couldn't even get us home, back to pittsburgh. >> financially this is going to take a toll. how much could yo...

shoulders, the small of my back, my waist. often enough by late 2014 i didn't want to go to the holiday party he was hosting for the albany press corps at the executive mansion." >> john: some top democrats are joining the list of the lawmakers demanding cuomo's resignation including house judiciary chairman jerry nadler among several prominent new york lawmakers issued statements saying that the time has come. >> sandra: yeah. yet still silence from vice president kamala harris on this. she has not joined those calls by fellow democrats for him to resign. nor have we heard from sena...

Are awaiting a lawful determination of their claim can wait in a place that's safe. the other thing is they're messaging very clearly that this is not the time to try to come across the border giving the weather and the cold and they're also targeting the smugglers groups deliberately trying to encourage a mass migration because they make money by trafficking in people who come to the u.s. >> there is a 1.6 million person backlog in the asylum system right now and meanwhile, where i am here in washington there's really no movement to deal with the underlying policy issues behind this. when you...

Face of collin all red who said what would happen and kabul fell and it was pompeo who said i'm directing it. you're talking to the person and that's not going to happen. we'll brief you. it was pompeo that refused to include turning over al qaeda as liz cheney mentioned. it was pompeo and the trump administration that sand bagged the state department to help get some of these afghan allies out through that special immigrant visa program. there's an 18,000 person backlog because it was that administration that gutted the state department and had no interest in keeping america's promise to thes...

Consequences. what the administration has said in its defence is when it came into power, it inherited a programme that had been basically put on hold under the trump administration, very few of these afghan nationals had been vetted and it had been put on ice for a year because of code red. there was a 17,000 person backlog in this process and then when president biden decided to go ahead with the withdrawal, the urgency became greater. but then the afghan leadership at the time asked mr biden not to go very strong on the evacuation because it would show a lack of confidence in the government...