hello. i m judge jeanine pirro, along with jessica tarlov, jesse watters, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. the secondary president biden refusing to talk about the scandal that could have put american lives in danger. the defense secretary face and calls to resign, after keeping both biden and senior officials in the dark on his recent hospitalization. for three whole days, america s defense secretary went awol with two wars raging in ukraine and israel. that s because he was secretly in the icu after a couple occasions following elective surgery. the second in command was put in charge while she was on vacation in puerto rico, but even she didn t know her boss was in the hospital. according to politico, one official was told that the secretary was working from home for the week. the pentagon now claims it did not give an update about boston them, because his chief of staff had the flu. and, austin is no longer
neil: are you ready for this? one week till iowa and the heat is on. ron desantis and nikki haley duking it out in the hawkeye state. donald trump continueses to hold a commanding lead there. team trump is ramping up its attacks on haley. that has some folks wondering what has him nervous. desantis supporters chip roy here to say don t count out my candidate, ron desantis. get ready. your world starts right now. i m neil cavuto. and let s get to it. we ve got aishah hasnie in des moines, iowa where things are heating up despite an arctic blast. at least it s not just constant blizzard conditions like it was for you earlier. how are things there now? i like that music. we re going need that to get us through the next couple days. it s going to drop to one degree by the time we hit caucus night. that will be a problem possibly the weather to make sure some of these folks get out there and caucus for ordinary candidates. today the weather was a problem. a lot of folks had