This is 20 minutes. Heads up oh, yeah. Good morning everyone. Welcome back 2024 is already off to a very busy start. I want to begin by addressing the shocking actions and lack of transparency from the department of defense. It is absolutely unacceptable that the pentagon waited multiple days to notify the president of the United States the National Security council, and the American People that defense secretary austin was hospitalized and unable to perform his duties. I represent fort drum home of the most deployed division in the u. S. Army since 9 11 there are currently thousands of tenth Mountain Division soldiers deployed in the middle east while those brave Service Members were under attack by iranian backed terrorists, the secretary of defense was in the icu, the deputy secretary of defense was on vacation, and joe biden and the white house were completely unaware. In the chain of demanding secretary of defense serves as connection to which the president commands and controls o
we are investing in all these states, out of east, sean behind the eight ball. that s my point. no. we are not behind the eight ball. the inviting breaks into the open to losing continues. love one. tonight, how republicans are fundamentally misunderstanding this american moment and how democrats are taking advantage. first of, all i m the one that got rid of roe v. wade. then, how republicans saved george santos from expulsion from congress with unanimous vote. i have not not done my job since i got here. i can to and walk at the same time. senator sharon brown and potential democratic workaround for democratic hostage taking. leaders have all agreed we will not default. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we have new polling just out. this one shows joe biden maintaining a lead, a significant, one over his potential republican challenger for the presidency next year. registered voters give biden a six-point a
main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, but from the ten team, it s goodnight. controversy rages over rape trials withoutjuries in scotland. could a new pilot scheme improve convictions rates in rape trials, or undermine the principles ofjustice? we ll be speaking to a former snpjustice minister, who is implaccable opposed and the head of rape crisis is scotland who backs the principle. also tonight. the afghan interpreters and their families promised safety in britain, but stuck, some now for a year, in hotels in pakistan, under effective house arrest. now i m stuck here. the taliban are threatening me. i can t go to afghanistan, and i can t go to the uk. i m stuck in the middle of things. fresh momentum for donald trump as the fbi is heavily criticised for its handling of its investigation into alleged ties betw
i have not not done my job since i got here. i can to and walk at the same time. senator sharon brown and potential democratic workaround for democratic hostage taking. leaders have all agreed we will not default. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we have new polling just out. this one shows joe biden maintaining a lead, a significant, one over his potential republican challenger for the presidency next year. registered voters give biden a six-point advantage over donald trump, 44 to 38%, and the reason i m beginning tonight s show with this polling, and we re a long way from the election, is because it comes after, two weeks after chakras alton another poll that showed those numbers flipped 44% for trump, 38% for biden, and there s a lot written about those polls. now what i would like to tell you is you can watch those polls bounce up and down and worry about what they mean. the reality is the election is 18 months away. t
cassidy hutchison was aide to chief of staff mark meadows. she says she was in the room when a number of conversations happened. she spoke to a special session of the january 6th committee this afternoon was w. eye-opening testimony. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. good evening, hash shah. good evening, bret. the former president has already responded almost immediately during that hearing calling this witness bad news. but, her testimony was dramatic and may have already caused serious damage. do you swear a last-minute hearing with a surprise star witness. cassidy hutchison, special assistant to former president trump in the chief of staff s office told the house committee during the riot she first felt scared when mark meadows predicted the day could go down hill. he said something to the effect of there s a lot going on cass, but, i don t know, things might get real, read bad. when january 6th came hutchison p