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erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, donald trump making his case in court and not ruling out violence if his case is moved ahead. the former trump white house lawyer ty cobb is out front. and federal investigators looking for four bolts crucial to securing the door plug that blew off that alaska airlines plane. but were they ever on the door in the first place? it's an incredible question. we go inside the investigation as boeing calls an all emergency staff meeting. and the pentagon filing revealing what sent defense chief lloyd austin to the hospital twice ...

Always. i want to go to david axelrod now, the former senior advisor to president obama joining me now six days before the iowa caucuses. as you hear all this what did you take away from the political per spect of the chicken and egg argument we heard from trump's attorneys in court today that a president can't be prosecuted unless a president has been impeached and we run around that circle. >> you remember the argument made when there was an impeachment is no, we can wait and let the courts handle this. this is shifting scenario here. but, look, you know, on the substance of it, it is -- it ...

Tonight, the pentagon finally announcing why defense secretary lloyd austin had two secretive stays in the hospital. revealing he was hospitalized december 22nd to preet prostite cancer. a hospitalization austin did not inform the white house or his deputy about at the time it spite being under general anise tisha. the pentagon also confirming when austin returned today the hospital in an ambulance in severe pain on january 1st he was diagnosed would a urinary tract infection. obviously, you know, he stayed in for many days. again, austin did not tell the white house about it. and the white ho...

The facts out there. out front now fred kaplan, the pulitzer prizewinning journalist and national security analyst for slate. he's covered the pentagon and secretary austin extensively. the op-ed titled why the secretary of defense's serious disappearance means we needs to go. and can read a lot of your reasonening there in that, fred. but has anything changed your mind that we -- this was of course today when you found out the white house only found out about his diagnosis of cancer today. >> i think it solidifies this view. i mean, look, we are on the edge of war in a couple of different the...

Represents the entire department. if he's not going to be there, that's fine, he has a medical whatever. there are procedures for notifying the deputy secretary of defense. the deputy was called on vacation in puerto rico to say you're going to have to assume some of his duties without being told why, without being told he was in the hospital. >> and she's on vacation. >> she's on vacation. she knew in the hospital under general anise tisha she probably would have got on a plane and come back. now we learned just today the president didn't even know why he was in the hospital. i mean, i don't ...