andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
the weekend in the state making their closing arguments in a state that can make or break their campaigns. fighting hate and extremism is p president biden s focus when he speaks from the same south carolina church that a wall street shot and killed nine parishioners. and the secretary of defense is still in the hospital as washington demands answers. why did he and his staff wait days to tell the white house that a criminal member of the chain of command was in the icu. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics . first, breaking news, donald trump is asking a judge to throw out the election subversion case against him in georgia. the former president s legal team just filed a motion claiming presidential immunity, just like they have in other cases. paula reed has been going through the court filings. what s his reasoning, paula, for wanting immunity in this particular case? reporter: dana, this is all familiar. the president s lawyers argue a ing
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
yes. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour in 1952, in the middle of the korean war, the united steel workers of america threatened to strike. but before they, could president truman shocked the nation with a televised address announcing he was seizing control of the steel plants so as not to interrupt the war effort. within half an hour of that address, lawyers for the steal companies had driven to a district court judges home in washington, d.c., and gotten the judge to set a hearing for the next morning. a hearing as to whether or not a could actually do that. now, the merits of that case a really interesting, but the reason the steele seizure case matters today is the speed at which was heard by the supreme court. the issue was so urgent for the steel workers, the unions, the steel companies, the u.s. military, it was so pressing that the case skipped the appeals process and the supreme court heard oral arguments just a little over a
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