hello i am alicia acuna you with guy benson, lisa boothe and doctor marc siegel. welcome to the big weekend show , the big story tonight, the mystery over defense secretary lloyd austin hospitalization, no one knew about his medical situation including his number two and she was not the only one of the dark for days, so was president biden fox news correspondent lucas tomlinson is live in wilmington tele where. there is now a bipartisan effort in congress to get some answers. that is right and we still don t know why austin has been in hospital for nearly a week including in a step in the intensive care unit biden did not know for three days and many republicans are outraged and the defense secretary was missing in action. apparently the national security council did not know it, the white house did not know it, congress did not know what, a lot of turmoil international was secretary of defense. more than just a matter of was not there actually sent over false informat
uh. here i ll take that. -everyone: woo hoo! ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein, one gram of sugar. enter the nourishing moments giveaway for a chance to win $10,000. just one hour from now, speaker mccarthy faces his first major test on the hill. will hard-line republicans tank this debt deal? is mccarthy s speakership potentially at risk? we re on top of it. plus the united states assessing what happened after drone attacks reach moscow. the kremlin is accusing ukraine of terrorism. we re going to take you live to kyiv with the ukrainian response and the explosions that shook the capital city. new developments in the james brown death mystery. bags of evidence that a woman handed over to the fulton county district attorney s office has disappeared. we re following these major stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. one hour from now, the hard-fought debt deal forged by president biden and speaker mccarthy will face its first
officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
john: two leading presidential candidates on the road this hour, former president trump in iowa and governor ron desantis hitting the trail in new hampshire. anita: and both taking hits at each other. both events this hour watching for more fireworks. john: likely presidential candidate reacting to the controversial decision by a top baseball team to honor a group that mocks nuns by dressing in drag. former vice president mike pence tweeting having been raised in a catholic family, the dodgers decision to invite the sisters of perpetual indulgence is deeply offense. with that, welcome back to america reports as we roll into a second hour. john roberts in washington, along with anita. anita: hey, john. i m in for sandra smith, talk to the head of a catholic outreach group who says the dodgers is giving them the cold shoulder and responding with a boycott. fox news alert. john: house speaker kevin mccarthy can breathe a sigh of relief of a the debt ceiling bill clea
welcome to our viewers this thursday morning. i m christine romans. donald trump giving us a review of what his 2024 campaign will look like and sound like. the 45th president and republican frontrunner for the white house taking questions last night from gop primary voters at a town hall. trump wasted little time in airing his same old grieveness as. he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united