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
they decided they would take the year off because they had a long night. carley: happy to fill in for them. todd, carly and yours truly here they decided to prank call me. like the little brother that i gave him a you guys, let s just call them at 1145. prank call, can we yeah, wish them a happy new year. we have lawrence jones. you guys are so mean. he gets up at 3:00 o clock in the morning. not just on the phone, it s face time. what are you doing. todd: not too happy with me right now. somebody decided to call out tomorrow from doing their shell. it s going to be an early night. tell us what your new year s solution is. besides getting a girlfriend, possibly a wife. [laughter] rachel was first of all, you guys can t do this he has to wake up and also you are going to have a girlfriend in 2023. wife. you where the star the show but your dog also a star. she is right here. lawrence: she is here onset. this is a sad day because, i broker out of training for th
fox news at night. breaking tonight, the impeachment inquiry for president biden is a go in the house, and it was unanimous among republicans. now the question is, does it make joe biden unelectable? meantime hunter biden defies a subpoena and refuses to sit for a house position. and instead chooses to make a public statement that may come back to haunt him. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the legal fallout good evening. reporter: epaing trace, after weeks of back and forth and a threat to hold him in con at the present time of congress hunter biden briefly today appeared in the capitol complex making a public statement outside of the building instead of showing up for his scheduled deposition following a subpoena from house republicans who, as you know, are looking into whether the younger biden and his father, the now president, collaborated in any financial dealings, particularly those involving foreign interests. in the depths of my ad
baier. breaking tonight we are following two major stories the president s son defy as congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition about his business dealings. and leading off, the house has voted to formally initiate an impeachment investigation into president biden. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill with what exactly this means. good evening, chad. chad: mike, good evening. first the house wanting information from the son. then the house turning to an investigation of dad. the house just voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry for president biden. the vote 221-212. the house could have been on firmer legal ground enforcing its subpoena for hunter biden to appear for a deposition today had the impeachment inquiry already been in place. instead, hunter biden skipped out. all we re trying to do is get the needed people who have been blocked or refused to cooperate to come in and testify under oath before congress. chad:
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