and the united states. the attack happened sunday, it is now thursday. last hour defense secretary lloyd austin warned of retaliatory strike. this is a dangerous moment in the middle east, we will work to avoid wider conflict, but we will take all necessariac actions to defend the united states, our military and our people and we will decide where we choose and how we choose. kayleigh: tough words. or were they? hello, this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany here with co-host emily compagno. also joining us, tammy bruce, former n.f.l. sideline reporter michele tafoya and chief breaking news correspondent from the west coast, trace gallagher. this morning secretary austin apologized over lack of transparency for his medical emergency for a month. i want to be clear, we did not handle this right, i did not handle this right. i should have told the president about my cancer diagnosis and my team and the american public. i take full responsibility. i apologize to my tea
harris: happy new year, this is harris faulkner. this is outnumbered. dagen mcdowell is here and kennedy is here and fox news contributor tammy bruce and former pennsylvania congressman and 32nd undersecretary of the army patrick murphy gets a punch in the arm. thank you for your service. the president s rough start to 2022. 2024, where am i going? both really. harris: the president is set to return to the white house in 2024 after a week-long vacation in st. croix. it may be a new year, seems like joe biden is suffering from the same problem at the polls. poll showing president biden trailing former president trump 39-37 in hypothetical general election match up. perhaps more concerning issue for our commander-in-chief is what is happening in another pol. it appears he is losing support from key demographic groups. biden now trails trump by five points. he slid all the way down and the opposition has more. trump also has a four-point lead over biden with younger vote
blazer who smashed through the glass ceiling. what she said was her true legacy. the suspect in the murders of four idaho college students has now waived extradition, new details on his studies of criminology. he asked former prisoners how they chose their victims fellow students tell us how he behaved the weeks prior to the murders, and our correspondent one on one with the police chief and the suspect s lawyer. did he kill these four students and before you pop that bottle of champagne, watch our report in this blind tasting, do people prefer a $200 bottle, or one for just $18 you both prefer the cheaper one. [ laughter ] announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening i m kristen welker in for jose on this christmas eve. on this new year s eve we re remembering two giants who left their mark on history. pope emeritu benedict xvi, and broadcasting legend barbara walters and the world is marking new beginnings, celebrations, biggest we v
there tonight. the idaho college murder suspect in court. why it could now take months for him to enter a plea. our nbc exclusive on the possible cause of a nationwide air travel meltdown. we ask secretary pete buttigieg how it could have happened in our one-on-one interview. what he told us. lisa marie presley, the daughter of elvis presley, rushed to the hospital. what we re l learning. and the big move in the burger wars. the beloved chain from out west finally heading back east. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening from washington, where in response to what he calls the extraordinary circumstances, attorney general merrick garland today named a special counsel to look into secret documents found in president biden s delaware home in addition to a washington office he used. extraordinary circumstances may be an understatement with one current and one former president entangled in questions over the alleged mishandling of sensitiv
join us he really, really just let it go on clarence thomas in the judiciary committee yesterday. we re going to show the video and get more from congressman jeffries about that. and at the end of the hour, there is another, there s someone else who let it go. and that is patty lupone, tony winner, patty lupone. tony nominee. who in a discussion with a audience at her broadway show the other day. had to enforce the mask policy. in her theater. in the video s gone viral, a lot of people have seen already. but it deserves, it absolutely deserves the national tv attention that we re going to give it at the end of the hour. and patty love that. i was on the subway they, thinking i could use patty lupone. no one s wearing mask any more. but i m looking forward to that. i m looking forward to it. once again, donald trump and trump republicans have brought us to a place tonight where we have never been before. in the trump era of our politics, which is still ongoing, when i