good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we go directly to the pentagon and the briefing on the china spy balloon. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call-in options will not be available. for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio up as quickly as possible. we will aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward, we will look at ways to improve our briefing operations and the facilitation and expect that our regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. again, we appreciate your patience and flexibility and extend our thanks to the department of the air force for allowing us to use airman s hall as our temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a very productive series of meetings in
night. the marquee race clearly is this one in pennsylvania in the keystone swing state of pennsylvania. you have dr. oz versusday mccormick versus kathy barnett. the top three on the gop side to replace senator pat toomey who is retiring. many scratched their heads over how the pennsylvania gop party oversaw this whole thing and why they would have allowed it to become a battle, a three-way battle. they each have 20% in the layest polls. now it s down to the wire on the gop side. early on, a big battle for the nod from the former president. that went to dr. oz. that was a move that some conservatives said was a mistake. tonight we ll see who is right about the dr. oz pick on the part of the former president. on the democrat side, the person that hopes to flip that senate seat from republican to democrat is john fedderman. he s in the hospital with a stroke said to be recovering. he won t be there for tonight s big celebration if that s what he has to celebrate this evening.
know, our military leaders, and rank and file people in the military, they hate this debate being hijacked by such social issues and they will always say, they ve always said, you want to debate abortion? debate abortion, that is fine. but don t bring us into that debate. we are about protecting america. they are making our troops into political pawns, that s what they are doing. the d.o.d. doesn t want any of this. our troops don t want it, they don t want to be used for politics in washington, but that is what the republicans are doing with this bill. yeah, jim? congressman, the senate was senator tuberville holding up having the senate approved military promotions and said that there is not a confirmed chairman of the joint chiefs, which is kind of mind-blowing. can you explain, based on your experience in the military, what the impact that that has? like, i come from a military family, i ve had members of my
right to bear arms. it s because their guy quote unquote donald trump was not the election wasn t stolen for him. convention this is this is an an array convention. your election convention? no, i m saying it s like it s not because of his position on guns. it s because they wanted him to steal the election for them, and so you know, it doesn t matter. it s also is like then what value is an r? a. if you aren t looking for candidates that really protect policy position, you re agreeing. um what? what do you make of it? interesting the booing sometimes doesn t mean that they re upset with you at the time. sometimes it s getting you you two know we re on you. you better do the right thing. it s a warning. sometimes some warning shot that says. we re coming after you unless you are giving us everything we need. and speaking of the nra, i mean, the candidates were were all out there talking about their position in line with the line with the nra. i know that you are a student at marjorie d
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