wow. what a how are you? great to see you all. what a great crowd. welcome to the special edition of hannity work. wow. usa, usa! i can t stop that. welcome back, all of you at home. of yowelcome back. our studio audience. we have a lot of a lot of ground to cover tonight. a lot of breaking news stories from the biden impeachment inquiry, what i call the joe biden bribery and mone impeachy laundering scl allegations. the house oversight committee,ea they just subpoenaed hunter biden, james biden and hunte rhr biden s business partner, rob walker. and they will now be compelle to testify before congress. and thisfo has been a long time coming. the chairman of the house oversight committee, hav james colmer, will join us. we have all those details coming up straight ahead. ng first, we have more troubling news from the middle east tonight. s fra $30 million u.s. reaper de inteshot out over the sky over international airspace by backed, you know, the houthi rebels and te
kids back into the classroom. the cdc is advising 3 feet of distancing instead of 6 feet for most students as long as masks and other measures are in place and depending on the community rates. joining me, andy slavitt who heads the covid response team. many states regardless are relaxing restrictions as cnn s alex alexandra field reports. k to 12 schools that operate safety can open. reporter: if even is masked, just 3 feet of students down from 6. the bottom line is there never was very good evidence for doing it alt 6 feet, not if kids are masked up. reporter: it s not clear how soon schools will implement changes as one said they ll, quote, reserve judgment. the push across the country accelerating as the new covid-19 cases hold steady. fewer than 55,000 new cases daily. still, alabama is one of the latest states moving ahead with plans to eliminate a mask mandate. the actual legal krgs of making it a mandate or not, you know, is not up to me, but we, you know,
and this is state of the union . it s been a rough couple of weeks for ron paul. his top tier seating hs brought new scrutiny to some of his old writings. now big enough threat to draw unanimous dismissals from opponents. unelectable. you need to think long and hard about in casting your vote for congressman paul. one of the people run for president thinks it s okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon. i don t. ron paul is not getting the nominati nomination. someone that is so out of sync with the american people that they don t need to be the president of the united states. could you vote for him? no. reporter: through it all paul s proven support in iowa has not waivered. he is marching on dropping major cash for ads in new hampshire and south carolina and he s confident enough about iowa to spend this weekend at home in texas. i spoke to the congressman earlier this morning. congressman paul, thank you so much for joining us this morning. new des moines reg
war on religion. you re in the situation room. but first, this just coming in right now at this moment, our brand new poll shows newt gingrich leading the pack in three of the first four states to hold republican presidential contests. with less than a month to go before republicans start voting, newt gingrich has double digit leads in iowa, south carolina, and florida. he trails mitt romney in new hampshire but they still have some competition. ron paul essentially tied with romney in iowa and double digit support in new hampshire. let s discuss these numbers. they spell it exactly the same but they pronounce their names differently. he pronounces it incorrectly. we won t discuss the history right now. iowa is coming up january 3. here is what we have in our cnn time magazine poll numbers. gingrich, 33%. romney 20, ron paul 17, perry 9, bachmann 7, santorum 5 and huntsman 1. it s a rather dramatic lead in iowa for newt gingrich. and a rather difficult state to ap