and countries around the world to address that. post counterisis campaign you know, the active operations when isis was defeated essentially in syria, what we ve seen is isis essentially look to we have been watching a news conference at the pentagon regarding defense secretary lloyd austin. the pentagon said moments ago the defense secretary has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that was the surgery he had in december and it was why he was back in the hospital for complications late december into the new year. they re explaining why there was a breakdown in communication. why the white house was not informed. saying repeatedly that they have to do better. joining us now from outside the white house is aaron gillcrist. in talking about breakdown and the timeline he have we can put up on the screen e timeline of when he was in the . when he started eing complication when he went back into the ital. january 4th is when they told the white house he was inhe for severe
los angeles, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. breaking tonight, governor ron desantis says forget the polls, because his ground game will translate into a big win in iowa. it s a bold statement considering former president trump is leading ila by more than 30 points. the latest power rankings have just come out, and they indicate the very real possibility of a surprise in iowa or new hampshire. aishah hasnie is live in des moines, iowa, with more on the fox news town hall as well as the shake-up in the fox news power rankings. good evening. trace, good evening to you. that s right, desantis says don t count him out just yet, despite the stagnant polling on him at there recently. he says he is promising to exceed expectations here in iowa. tonight on the big stage he boasted about his ground game at the fox town hall and his team tells me they have more than 30,000 people committed to caucus for desantis. that s a big deal. he said it s time to elect some
where he signalled that he is prepared, if necessary, to escalate military operations in lebanon, with 80,000 israeli s now displaced from their homes. to the south, the death toll in gaza, stands at 23,000, according to the hamas run health ministry. and so intense is the fighting that several aid agencies have now begun withdrawing medics from the only functioning hospital in central gaza. on his visit to qatar, secretary blinken said washington has an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading, and a warning to some members of the israeli government. palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow. they cannot, they must not, be pressed to leave gaza. we reject the statements by some israeli ministers and lawmakers calling for a resettlement of palestinians outside of gaza. amanda, the american administration very conscious of what is happening. i want to show you a video, president biden hasjust i want to show you a video, pre
why not give it a try? good to be with you. i m katy tur. president biden once again today said donald trump is a threat to democracy. calling him a, quote, loser who tried to violate the constitution to stay in power. biden speaking at mother emanuel in charleston, south carolina, said a lot of the same things liz cheney said over the weekend in new hampshire. that donald trump is a want to be authoritarian, don t take that chance. he won t leave office, cheney warned. quote, i think there s a lot of living in a fantasy world that s going on with republicans telling themselves, look, we ll vote for him. it won t be so bad. it may well be the last real vote you ll ever get to cast. it will be that bad, and cheney says, the message is urgent. iowa is just one week away. and if you don t believe the urgency, abc news citing unnamed sources is reporting jack smith has yet another trump aide saying the former president didn t want to leave office. this time, it s dan scavino, t
what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more j