Treated for Prostate Cancer happening around christmas and new years time. The decision to keep the president and others in that period in the dark for days. Secretary austin spent several days in Intensive Care and transferred authority to his deputy but didnt tell her why and didnt inform the white house immediately. This is the first time he will answer lawmakers questions in public and keep an eye on that coming up right now. He has picked a beautiful spot. Disrespect to brownsville residents he has chosen to waste his trip looking at absolutely nothing. This trip is just so pointless. Bill we spoke to a bounceville resident earlier today as President Biden gets ready to leave the white house making a rare visit to the southern border. His second as president. The same day as former President Trump will be there as well. Brandnew hour begins now. Dana has the week off. She is back on monday. Im bill hemmer. Welcome to thursday. Hello, gillian. Gillian im gillian turner. Its quite a
i do want to especially thank president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote that out when he was there, and he was all in. given mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump south. it s built on the back of trump republican acolytes whose job depends on the support of trump s own base. the dynamics that were on display during the four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in six months since. chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists, and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the entire country to the brink of economic default just a few weeks ago. and encouraged by trump to stonewall efforts to reach a deal on the debt limit. but mccarthy s speakership so far will likely be remembered for republicans many efforts to avenge donald trump to take action against his critics, and to rewrite the narrative of his first presiden
command in chief receive the bodies of the three killed in jordan. i m sandra smith here in new york. john: sad moment in american history. this is america reports . deadly attack happened last saturday in jordan and the u.s. has pinned it on iranian-backed proxies but yet to take any sort of action in response and critics say the delay may be giving the militia groups time to prepare for a strike and protect. sandra: rich edson is live at the white house as we await the transfer. do we know what the response will look like? we know it s coming and will have several layers but the specifics beyond that are very unclear, that s what senior officials are saying, an umbrella group of iran-backed militias in the regions killed the three. few other details about the strike. since mid october, attacked u.s. positions more than 160 times, mostly in iraq and syria. the u.s. struck the groups several times. lloyd austin says the pentagon has planned for a more substantial respo
these bombs today exploding feet from the iranian general s tomb. the questions still tonight is who did it. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump has officially filed that appeal to overturn last month s explosive ruling from colorado s high court that declared he was ineligible to appear on the state s primary ballot, determining that he had engaged in an insurrection. the new appeal tonight is only raising new pressure on the nine justices that you see here to settle this matter once and for all or potentially risk chaos in a presidential election year. with similar battles over the ballot and trump bubbling up in other states as well, we re left with a key question tonight, can the former president be disqualified from holding public office again under the constitution s insurrectionist ban, and do states get to make that decision? trump has also appealed the decision in maine that happened to remove him from its ballot. that was to the stat
mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, republican presidential candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are preparing to take questions from iowa voters live here on cnn. we re setting the stage for our back-to-back town halls with donald trump s top gop rivals. i ll speak with chris christie this hour. also tonight, newly released documents reveal that they spent millions of various trump-owned property while he was president. we re following the money trail. isis is now claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly explosion. how this attack could impact wartime tensions in the middle east. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. behind me are live pictures in des moines as they will soon appear in back-to-tack town hall events. let s go to kristin holmes, live from sioux city in iowa. with the caucuses only is 1 days away, what are we hearing from the c