austin covering a lot of ground in his first press conference since his secret hospital admission, addressing the elephant in the room saying he did not handle his diagnosis and hospitalization correctly, and reiterated the u.s. plans to respond to a deadly attack on u.s. service members in jordan. i m john roberts in new york city, and look who is here today. just like magic. gillian: we managed to shake free of it. great to be with you, john. i m in for sandra smith, she s out on assignment. america reports . general austin s briefing comes as u.s. officials confirm iran manufactured the drone used to kill the three american service members and injure dozens more during sunday s strike. calling the attack on sleeping soldiers egregious and looking for a multi-tiered strike in retaliation. john: tensions ratcheting up near the red sea, united states taking out an anti-aircraft missile in yemen, raising concerns the group could be expanding its target zone. gillian:
welcome to the republican rorschach primary. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. people are reading into the results so far whatever they re wishing for. first there are the never tr trumpers. they say he is essentially running as an incumbent, and still 49% of the voters in iowa, they didn t want him. speaking of iowa, the turnout was abysmal. a little over 110,000 participated, accounting for just under 15% of the state s 752,000 registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? iowa, iowa is lily white. it is unrepresentative of the country at large. we are a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. besides, the iowa field, it was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. worse for trump, the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers, showing that tru
registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? and iowa, iowa is lily white. it s unrepresentative of the country at large. we re a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. and besides, the iowa field was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire, she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. and worse for trump the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers showing that trump could never win a general election, so why should haley drop out? candidates only drop out when they run out of money and nikki has the money. she s raised 2.6 million since the new hampshire primary, and the super pac backing haley raised 50.1 million in the last signature months, that s about 5 million more than the pac backing trump. and don t forget. he s four times indicted, anything can happen. after all, just yesterday a
greg: that is true! happy thursday, everybody. thank you. so disney has announced that the next star wars movie will be directed by a woman. you heard that right. disney admits they can define a woman. but the new director s not just any woman, no, she s a pakistani canadian feminist activist. exactly the kind of person the star wars franchise needs. the kind who s idea of fun is lecturing you about oppression while combing dandruff out of her armpits. not her, somebody like that. see i saved that one. it s no secret that the star wars audience is mostly male. and by mostly, i mean virgin. so here s charmeen in 2015 talking to jon stewart about how she interacts with that horrible gender with the y chromosome. i like to make men uncomfortable. i enjoy making men uncomfortable greg: see that explains why jon stewart looked so comfortable. well, no doubt she s made plenty of men uncomfortable especially the ones that own disney stock. because this movie promises to be a
the very latest from capitol hill all things hitchhikers guide to washington, d.c., in the swamp chad what s going on we expect this to past only? we think they re gonna start this vote in the next two have been 3 minutes they started this debate at 717 eastern time. we think the actual roll call vote is income any minute so it s pending. we do expect a bipartisan coalition of democrats and g.o.p. members to vote yes. house speaker kevin mccarthy made the closing argument he said don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ominous say i m at about no because they re summing out in the bill. if i took that philosophy i would never vote yes. i simply read the bills and funny and decide if this is good for the country. i would see that answer is easily yes they ll save an additional two-point join and for the first time in more than a decade congress will spend less next year than this year. once the bill clears the house tonight it had to cross the rotunda to the se