this is cnn breaking news. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we are starting with this breaking news. the secrets around austin lloyd s secret hospitalization are growing. antony blinken and even his own deputy secretary of defense kathleen hicks did not know that he was incapacitated last week. he was admitted to walter reed last week after complications from an elective surgery. natasha bertrand and arlette saenz are gathering more details. and how were so many top officials kept in the dark about what was happening? well, that is really the big question that we have right now, fredricka, is whose information is this to keep it from the public and also from the white house for roughly three days after secretary austin was first transferred into austin reed hospital to receive treatment for a complication from an e elective surgery that he had, but what we know is that the secretary of defense was learning that she was to take o
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
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 month after truman s announcement. they decided the case less than a month afte
tonight at eight. on cnn. biden s ready. the president s reelection announcement could be just days away. what s his pitch to retake the white house and man versus mouse? they may have run florida for 50 years before i got on the scene, but they don t run florida anymore. desantis is upping the stakes in his battle against disney. but is it a war he can actually win? plus mccarthy s mountain. house speaker must get his debt ceiling plan through the house caucus. give him the votes he needs. right now. i m leaning now supporting this package support the framework, but i haven t looked at. i got to go look at the text. the devil s in the details. hello and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. and so the countdown begins in just a matter of days. president biden is expected to take the plunge and formally announced his bid to retake the white house. it is a move that the president has held off making for months now. but it is also a move that however he that he s
former president s legal team, slows down the investigation into the thousands of pages from mar-a-lago on august 8th, hundreds marked classified. after a nearly two-hour court session and a long weekend to think about it, she made her decision writing a special master shall be appointed to review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendtations and evaluate claims for the return of property. she continues the government is en joined from further review and use of the materials seized from plaintiff s residence, pending review. the government may continue to review the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessment. to determine the classification levels of the documents will not stop, it will continue. doj can continue its classification assessment. actual investigation slows down. no comment from the department of justice at this hour but it is certainly possible for the doj to appeal the ruling to