iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barn storm iowa. there will be a new day in america without chaos. i m running for your issues. one point down. is this race more fluid than it seems? and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an all out focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tries to flip the script. will biden s strategy work. three years after the january 6 attack, mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then south carolina democratic congressman jim clyburn. plus health scare, defense secretary lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the public he is in the intensive care unit. how serious was it and why was it kept secret. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. eight days from the iowa caucuses, one day past the third anniversary of the january 6 attack on the capitol. and donald tru
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
getting new reaction from the biden administration on defense secretary austin s decision to hide his hospital stay. just a short time ago john kirby told a reporter no change regarding austin s position, despite growing calls for resignation. hello, this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany, here with emily compagno and harris faulkner. hudson institute senior fellow rebecca heinrichs and fox news contributor and host of guy benson show, guy benson. austin s ordeal began december 22 right-hand, when he underwent a procedure at walter reed and returned to intensive care unit last monday with severe pain. austin s next in command was given some duties next day but not told he was in the hospital. the white house had no clue that the secretary of defense was hospitalized. senior pentagon officials and congress learn the news on friday. austin s condition was closely guarded. one dod official was told the secretary was working from home. austin is recovering in the hospital
because there s much more news coming up on msnbc. this hour, if you blink, you might have missed them. in the past 24 hours, new headlines proving the 2024 campaign season is already out for a frenzy s start. plus, donald trump s big day in court tuesday. whether he can pull the same antics we saw at his new york civil trial appearances. plus, the whole in a plane that has a lot of this country talking. new information from investigators, and had. and a very good day to all of you from nbc news here in los angeles, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the countdown to the iowa caucuses, now eight days away, when temperatures in des moines are expected to be a frigid zero at degrees with a wind chill of minus 16. and new today, after trump spent time meeting voters in iowa, a stunning declaration from a republican congresswoman on certification of the 2024 election results, and a possible hint of what s to come. what about 2024? what about 2024?
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear