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american democracy. that is something he truly believes and that we should continue to fight for. calling for egregious abuses of power in order for to suppress the constitutional rights of reporters as an insult, it s a complete insult to the rule of law and undermines fundamental values and traditions. instead, it is the responsibility, it s a responsibility of all leaders t protect first amendment rights and that s what the president believes and that s what is going to continue to do to make sure we protect those rights. something happened they are, clearly. where it not quite exactly sure what happened to the white hous briefing. somebody must ve pulled the plug . there is something going on today. apparently we have it back, so let s get back to it right now, we don t have any audio now. clearly our plug has been pulle somewhere, there are a lots of patches and routings that go on in that briefing room and that white house. in fact, if you were to look under the ....
a shot of a predawn los angeles. welcome to the fourth hour of morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. out there on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. here in the east. i m jonathan lemire alongside the bbc s katty kay. we re happy to report that msnbc contributor mike barnicle is joining us for the hour. we re in for joe, mika, and willie. catty, a lot of headlines to get to in this hour. the biggest one got mike off the ice rink earlier. landed a couple triple axels and came upstairs and i m sort of disappointed he s changed out of his outfit, but there we go. and took the gold medal off. right. let s get to the headlines, mike, beyond yours. the latest from buffalo where the national guard is going door to door checking on residents who lost power during the deadly blizzard. we ll have the latest as officials face scrutiny over that. and southwest airlines cancels more flights as it struggles to recover from the winter storm. the unions are speaking out about how the dis ....
American democracy. that is something he truly believes and that we should continue to fight for. calling for egregious abuses of power in order for to suppress the constitutional rights of reporters as an insult, it s a complete insult to the rule of law and undermines fundamental values and traditions. instead, it is the responsibility, it s a responsibility of all leaders t protect first amendment rights and that s what the president believes and that s what is going to continue to do to make sure we protect those rights. something happened they are, clearly. where it not quite exactly sure what happened to the white hous briefing. somebody must ve pulled the plug . there is something going on today. apparently we have it back, so let s get back to it right now, we don t have any audio now. clearly our plug has been pulle somewhere, there are a lots of patches and routings that go on ....
From, southwest can offer routings where people don t even have to touch some of these big central cities that you have to make connections through. it can offer some better services through some of the smaller cities across america. and that s one of the things that s made southwest airlines very successful. however, it does make it hard to recover because you may not have the capability to put airplanes and crew back into locations that don t have the bad weather or don t have the disruptions. this is a story that s certainly not disappearing from the headlines. passengers still stranded, luggage lost. we ll be talking more about it. we appreciate it. the president of local 536, which represents southwest airlines flight attendants. lyn, thanks for being with us this morning. some of the morning s opinion pages tackle the southwest story. let s start with the washington post. its editorial board says southwest put investors ahead of its customers and employees. writing in part ....
Major issues as they sought to recover the network. the first is the fact that their planes fly very interesting routings. they don t necessarily go from hubs and back to hubbs. they zigzag across the country. and this has led to flight attendants and crewmembers being out of place. additionally, what we re seeing is that the crew scheduling system hasn t been able to keep up with the rate of cancellations that southwest has had, which has led to this utter chaos meltdown that we ve seen over the last few days. and it has to be said that this does keep happening to southwest airlines. so why haven t they made the necessary updates to their outdated techsystems and also done a better job with staffing and connecting those staff with flights? i mean, it does beg the big question, doesn t it? yeah, for sure. you know, it s worth mentioning, southwest is the largest domestic carrier. they re also an ultra low-cost ....