forces in yemen. search and rescue efforts are underway for two navy seals lost at sea during that mission. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. last dance here in des moines, right? we re the last show out of here. i m bill hemmer. navy commanders boarding a smuggling ship in the sea finding cruise missiles. the same type used by the houthis to launch a series of attacks on ships in the red sea that disresults global trade. wall street journal reports shell is now the latest company to say we aren t going to go that way. we ll stop shipments through the red sea fearing a further escalation of attacks by the houthi rebels. dana: complex raid seizing the weapons took place last thursday while austin was still in the hospital and now released and working from home for a while. griff jenkins is live at the pentagon with an update on all this for us. good morning, griff. good morning, dana. the secretary will have a very busy
next. iowans sent their message loud and clear last night choosing former president donald trump by a record breaking margin and republicans are dropping out. ramaswamy last night and then just ten minutes ago former arkansas governor asa hutchinson has suspended his campaign. last night the associated press called the iowa caucuses winner in fewer than 60 minutes after people had begun voting. governor ron desantis in second. a distant second. and just a few points ahead of nikki haley. ramaswamy who i mentioned was only single digit support. each candidate with a message to voters after those results. one of them shaking up the race. as of this moment, we are going to suspend this presidential campaign. we deserve a new direction under new conservative leadership. we deserve a president who will focus on the needs of our people, not on themselves. because of your support, in spite of all of that that they threw at us, everyone against us, we ve got our ticket punched
in wilmington, delaware. despite the white house saying the search was complete last thursday. rapid developments here is what we are looking at so far. november 2nd, just days before the midterm election, six days, the president s aides find classified documents and a closet at the penn-biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c. but that discovery was not made public. on november 14th, attorney general merrick garland appoints a u.s. attorney to go over the case. fast-forward to december 20th, the president s attorneys find another batch of documents. these pages that were stored in his garage at his home coming in oh, next to the corvette like he told us. the story finally broke wide open on january 9th. an additional document was then found three days later. that same day the attorney general appointed a special counsel. two days after that more documents surfaced in wilmington. some democrats are staying silent on all of this while others are publicly speaking out inc
elected. we ll see what happens today. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. the house will resume its session two hours from now. last night 20 republicans voted against kevin mccarthy in the third round of voting. dana: without a speaker is house is unable to swear in members or vote on any legislation. congressman elect mike lawlor slammed those opposing mccarthy last hour. it s shameful and embarrassing and proofing themselves incapable of governing. jim jordan s committee on judiciary to do investigations can t do it. securing the border, guess what, can t do it. these 19 individuals have tried to hold the rest of us hostage and they have no plan no plan and no person to be the speaker. bill: now to the way forward, whatever that is. james freeman wall street journal has analysis and chad pergram has the reporting live from the hill. that s where we begin. good morning. this is the world s biggest game of chicken. the thing to watch is whether support for mc
Harris the Breaking News continues. Keep keep close on capitol hill, House Of Representatives expected to vote on speaker of the house any moment now. Congressman jim jordan hopes he has enough support. He has gained major momentum, but can only lose four votes. Well follow the action. He had enough votes to get to the nomination. Well bring updates as they happen. In the middle east, President Biden will travel to the middle east later today. The high stakes trip as israeli faces Rocket Attacks from hezbollah on northern border with lebanon. We learned they have 100,000 rockets should they want to engage, another front of war with hezbollah to the north and hamas together to the south against israel, bringing concern the conflict could escalate in the region. 2000 american men and women marines mostly, have been placed on ready to deploy to the middle east within 24 hours notice to aid israel in advisory and medical support roles, but everybody is armed. Im harris faulkner. Here with