bill hemmer, good morning, partner. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we made it to february. bill: we did. dana: a little long month that one of january. defense secretary lloyd austin will hold a news conference later this morning. anticipates building for his first major address since his secretive hospital stay. he is expected to face questions on many issues, not least his health. bill: payback against iran. what form does it come? questions swirling about the size and timing of the u.s. response after the deaths of three american soldiers and the wounding of dozens of others by an iranian proxy group out of iraq. all this with another group expanding their targets from the red sea to the air. dana: jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon to set it up for us this morning. you will have a front row seat this morning. we will. dana, this is the first time that the press has had an opportunity to question defense secretary lloyd austin abo
coming right up. first hunter biden finally admitting the laptop filled with his emails incriminating documents and embarrassing photos does indeed belong to him. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m dana perino. bill: how was the first hour? dana: good. bill: a plus? good morning. i m bill hemmer and good morning. after years of widespread claims dismissing the laptop as the work of hackers or russian disinformation hunter s lawyers conceding it indeed belongs to him and calling him hunter the victim. that change of tune coming as newly empowered republicans launch investigations into hunter s business dealings including his role with bhr, a chinese equity firm banked by some of china s largest state banks. he joined the board in an unpaid position in 2017. he pursued deals involving china s largest private energy firm. later that year a hunter biden associate says that joe biden was consulted on deals with china. one year after that, the department of justice laun
dana: i don t narcs brian dietz might have wanted to leave anyway. bill: next tuesday night will be interesting. state of the union. the out of control drug epidemic, what researchers believe could curb the record number of fentanyl deaths plaguing america. intriguing idea. individuals who go through detoxification and then become vaccinated as well.