year of campaigning. now it is time to vote. one week from tonight, we could know who won iowa. donald trump is about to raise from the courtroom to the campaign trail and pack again as his rivals are hoping to pull off an upset. also tonight, the missing piece of that alaskan airlines plane that blew off at 16,000 feet in the air has now been found. more planes are being grounded for inspections as one major airline says they found something. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. it has been one week now since defense secretary lloyd austin was admitted to the icu. tonight, not only do we still not know what exactly sent him there, we don t know why his staff didn t tell the white house for days that he was even in the hospital. nonetheless, in intensive care. the lack of transparency from a top u.s. military official, especially while the u.s. is dealing with multiple crises around the world, has resulted in some calls for austin s resignation. the top republic
in puerto rico, although linked in communications wise. i think importantly, his chief of staff was ill and out of the office. so i spent 13 years in the pentagon, a lot of time there. sometimes what appeared to be simple bureaucratic processes don t work like they should. i think, you know, secretary austin is known for someone who really treasures his privacy. he was always that way, was that way on active duty. he s somewhat of an introvert, avoids the limelight, avoids publicity wherever he can. and it s not as though he was spirited away to some undisclosed location. he was at walter reed. you know, the premier military medical facility. the commander at walter reed certainly knew he was there. his protective detail, secretary austin s protective detail, certainly knew where he was. so i think there s clearly a
weather but realize that this virus is very good at finding people who are susceptible. which is to say unvaccinated people. so virtually all of the hospitalizations and deaths are in people who are unvaccinated. so it is still important to be vaccinated but i do think we re getting there. that is encouraging. a new study from the united king found that 66% of the infections were reinfections. people getting covid twice now. what does that tell you? it is what you would expect. if your infected with this kind of virus, the muk ossal virus, you can get reib fected which is to say you could have mild symptoms but immunization or against severe disease that causes to you go to the doctor s office or the hospital or the icu, this is what you would expect. i think the biggest mistake we make communications wise was months ago when we labelled those kind of infections as
democrats. 24 hours ago the president was crowing about the fact that he defeated isis. we re not talking about that anymore. by thursday we ll be talking about the preimpeachment vote. politically and communications wise, nancy pelosi, for once, is running circles around him. if the president can t figure out a way to change this narrative, not only will he obviously lose the impeachment vote in the house, but will lose support in the senate. the real question will not be whether or not he gets removed. i don t think that happens. from a messaging standpoint you could see five, six, seven, eight senators, republican senators make symbolic votes for impeachment because the president can t explain himself and they re tired of taking arrows for him. i don t know if you re right or not. but i do know that the reporting does suggest that what you re saying is quite plausible. because republican senators aren t just saying now, let s sit through a few bad weeks and move on. right. the
patriot is who wrote this anti-trump hit piece in the new york times, i would argue dangerously published, is nothing more than a swarm sewer creature who can t stand that there is a new you sheriu creature who can t stand that there is a new you sheriew sher a coward hiding, hasn t got the guts to come out in public. frankly, he should resign. and it isn t working. donald trump s approval rating is still an average of 40. yeah, three straight national polls, he is under 40%, he is back to where he was kind of post charlottesville when he was siding with nazis. so there is a serious problem. the white house is completely freaked out by anonymous. they seem way more concerned than the woodward book, which is weird because they both tell the same tale. but communications-wise, they don t have a single surrogate who isn t seen as a laughingstock outside of that 32% base. i mean bill shine basically runs