the u.s. striking three facilities in iraq used by iranian backed militants. carley: the act of retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were hurt in an attack on a base in northern iraq. griff: right now black smoke rising over gaza. the intense fighting comes after iran s president issuing a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed in syria. david spunt is live in washington with the latest tracking all of it for us. hey, david. hey, griff, hey everyone, one of our service members was injured critically. president biden ordered the strikes after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone. according to national security sources, the iranian-backed militia hezbollah and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iranian backed militants claimed credit for this christmas day attack. the president was briefed by national security team yesterday at camp david. defense secretary lloyd austin saying in part let me be clear, the president and
intercepting multiple rockets, comes after iran s president issuing a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed in syria. trey yingst is live in tel aviv with the latest. trey. trey: good morning. overnight, according to u.s. central command, three strikes destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants. attacks in response to a drone strike against the irbil air base, three americans were injured, one critically, total number of attacks in the middle east to 103 since mid october. lloyd austin released a statement after the response saying let me be clear, the president and i will not hesitate to take action to protect the troops and we do not seek to escalate conflict, we are further prepared to take necessary measures to protect our people and facilities. after israeli forces were on high alert following an airstrike in syria that killed sayyed mousavi, the iranian president said it s an act of the zionist f
another day of travel chaos with thousands more flight delays and cancellations. southwest struggles to recover from holiday storms and system-wide operational problems. the u.s. department of transportation says it is launching an investigation. as a wash dog we ll hold them accountable and have to take a deeper look what s going on with their scheduling systems. we all understand you can t control the weather but this is clearly crossing the line from what s on uncontrollable weather situation to something that s the airline s responsibility. julie: president biden dodging the travel chaos and winter weather as he jets off to a tropical vacation. peter doocy is live at the white house. we have a heater right here. it s pretty warm. not that bad. it s not that bad. as we look at some of these images from airports, julie, people who are stranded and looking to the federal government to maybe help them out, help them get home faster are out of luck. and there is really n
presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent and pinocchio fan kaitlan collins is here. i know a thing or two about trump, we got a lot to talk about when it comes to that. not making any connections. we begin with the new cnn reporting overnight involving a newly revealed email from the national archives, email that shows just how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents in the archives did not think should be in his position at all. the email indicates records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they had to be, according to a source throughout 2021, there are about a dozen emails and calls including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, it is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the white house over the course of president trump s last year in office and have no
Good morning. Today, were having a hearing on the Biden Administrations fiscal year 2025 budget request for the department of education. And then happy to welcome secretary cardona to her subcommittee once again. Mr. Secretary, looking forward to working in a bipartisan manner again this year with senator capito to help develop h hhs villa billick and pase come pass a senate, pass the senate be signed into law by the president. We did her last year but House Republicans insistence on partisan policy writers had to coding cuts that set our children young people up for success led to repeated shutdown, showdowns and crs. That culminated in passing final appropriation bills in march that we should a past months before. That can askance does nothing to help ensure our federal resources are used most effectively to serve the people we represent. It causes federal agencies to waste time and money instead of working to ensure every dollar we appropriate served our constituents. We cannot play