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medical issue. reporter: tonight we re learning more about who knew what and when, raising even more questions after the pentagon announced the 70-year-old austin was hospitalized the evening of january 1st for complications following a recent elective medical procedure. in a statement the pentagon said austin transferred responsibilities to deputy defense secretary kathleen hixon january 2nd. notably, a senior defense official tells nbc news that hicks was not notified until thursday, the 4th. a full three days after austin was admitted. according to a u.s. official, that s the same day the pentagon also informed white house national security adviser jake sullivan who then told president biden. the defense department then waited one more day, until friday, january 5th, to inform the american people and lawmakers on capitol hill, some of whom are calling for austin to face consequences. still unclear tonight, six days after he entered the hospital,
and also ahead, republican presidential candidate nikki haley is addressing the backlash over her comments about the iowa caucuses. we ll show you what she said and which gop rival called her a phony. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 5th. it is a friday. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with news here that as israel s defense minister is outlining his vision for the next phase of the war against hamas. under the plan the idf would shift to what appears to be a scaled down new combat approach, focusing on the, quote, erosion of terror hot spots in gaza. in the north troops will conduct raids and special operations while in the south the main
we ll talk about that. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 5th. along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. we re absolutely thrilled to have pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson, back with us. gene, we read the beautiful piece about your wife, avis. we re so glad you re back, and at the same time, i know it s really hard. well, it is, mika, as you know, but i am happy to be back. you know, feeling better, a little better every day. i had a great conversation with joe yesterday, as a matter of fact. we discussed a certain little college football game that was played the other day. oh, good. between a certain two schools, in which a certain school, the right school, university of michigan, won. oh. gene is really back. he s really back.
i get it from everybody. i love these people. you see, willie? what do i always say? when he s talking, there s laugh tracks going in the audience, but you can believe him, right? you can always believe donald trump when he makes a claim like that. yeah. that was almost a decade ago too, and there s some new information we re getting this morning. we re going to get more specifics about just how much he enjoys those relationships that he was just bragging about. yeah. there s a new report that finds those payments continued during his years in the white house. so we ll talk about that. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 5th. along with me, we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire, and we re absolutely thrilled to have pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson back with us. we read the beautiful piece about your wife. we re so glad you re back and at