his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
Happy holidays. We begin the Special Edition of the readout with a look back at what has been a monumental year for the democrats historic performance in the midterm elections, to the january six hearings, to the Supreme Court overturning roe v. Wade. The fbi rating the home of a former president , and everything in between. 2022 has been incredibly consequential for and politics. I hear thats left us rights as human beings, and whether you have more of those rights if, say, youre a former president. Or if you are if you have a uterus and live in a red state. Well, 2023 maybe the air we finally got some answers. To start, well learn who exactly will be running for president in 2024, and, who if any in the Republican Party, will stand up to donald trump. Though, maybe dont hold your breath on that one. Speaking of which, we could find out if the twice impeached disgraced former president will actually be held accountable and any of the laundry list of investigations that he is under. Th
thought was guarding the property at the time they arrived. brooke singman has the latest. todd, ashley we are learning that they were dead by the time the import authorities arrived. the two other victims, eric james williams survived the horrifying and back in the united states, travelers from north carolina went so that they tell me took procedure and the mother giving this update, she is doing okay, she is crying, watched two of them die. they died in front of her. this photo shows nikki in the back of an ambulance after rescued from the mexican authorities, they cross the border and brought to a hospital in texas shortly after they were saved. the victims were held in this small shack located in rule part of eastern new mexico where they got lost and mistaken by members of the drug cartel for drug mules. mexican police arrested a 24-year-old mexican national with the violent kidnapping and the suspect identified as jose guadalupe and accused of guarding the shack where
the pain it will cause us. he is blocking way to make our own as much as he can. 1984 was the last time we were tapping oil like we were tapping beer in america. today s sale marks the end of the 180 million drawdown biden announced in the spring. the white house is warning there could be more of this sort of move on the horizon. so i mentioned that we re really getting low. what s that going to look like? but they said this a few weeks ago. so we re not considering new releases from the strategic petroleum reserve beyond the 180 million which is what you are speaking about, about the 1 million that the president announced months ago. we don t have anything more to share and we won t be considering new releases. harris: her pants are literally on fire because that was not true. the president trying to contain rising gas prices but fears now growing that it will do exactly the opposite. today s national average $3.85. 50 cents more than a year ago. temperatures are droppin
the greatest political jiu-jitsu move, but abandoning those policies was done. laura: will be riveted. i can t wait. i m laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. seven weeks before the midterms if you can believe it. the last gasps, that s the focus of . hannity: in all seriousness folks, that s all biden speaks, the democrats have so much to be proud of before the midterms. 8.3% is the year-over-year number, coming in hotter than expected and hotter than a lot of economists and people on this panel had thought. since the middle of last year, we ve seen that inflation is going up faster than wages. if you ingest paychecks for inflation, there actually shrinking. robbery has jumped 19%. hannity: heck of a job joey. but at least the democrats always had the pandemic to help them hold onto power. or until biden messed that up on 60 minutes. of the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid, still doing a lot of work on it. but the pandemic is over