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are gone. if on 26a, part of the seat, the back of the seat is gone. it was a very day9 yachtic scene, very chaotic. mike: the chair of the national transportation safety board describing the scene friday night where tragedy was averted after a panel blew out during an alaska airlines flight resulting in rapid decompression in the cabin. this led to the federal aviation administration now grounding dozens of boeing 737 max-9 planes. the ntsb is still searching for what caused the incident. welcome to "fox news live," i'm mike he man well, the grounded planes will have to undergo additional safety inspections before being allowed to fly as officials are still searching for the panel that blew off the plane. christina coleman is live with the latest. hello, christina. >> reporter: hi, mike. yes, today is the first full day for nt is sb to be on the ground in oregon investigating what caused a section of this plane

to blow out in the sky leaving passengers fearing for their lives. this plane just went into service on november 1 19th. the ntsb says it's going to look into the aircraft's maintenance records, pressurization system and in components regarding the deactivated emergency cabin door that blew out on the plane. the ntsb is urging portland area residents to contact law enforcement if they find the door or any part that came off the plane. >> now we need the public's help. with we know from looking at radar -- well, at least we believe from looking at radar data that the door is around barnes road near i-217 and the crow daughter hills -- cedar hills neighborhood. >> reporter: or now, passengers took video of the gaping hole left by that

blown-out door on the alaska airlines flight. the plane departed from portland international airport at 5:07 on friday and made an emergency landing moments later. it was babb -- back on the ground within 20 minute ifs ifs. no one was seriously injured, and to no one had been seated right next to the door. the incident happened after this plane was around 16,000 feet. now, the ntsb says this situation could have been much worse. >> fortunately, they were not at cruise altitude of 30,000 or 35,000 fleet -- feet. think about what happens when you're in cruise. everybody's up and walking, folks don't have seat belts on, they're going to restrooms. the flight attendants are providing services to passengers. we could have ended up with something so much more if tragic. >> reporter: and in an effort to prevent something so much

more tragic, the faa ordered the temporary grounding of certain max if 9 aircrafts so that they can be inspected for any issues. the directive will affect if approximately 171 airplanes world wild resulting in flight cancellations -- worldwide -- that have already affected tens of thousands the of passengers. mike in. mike: christina coleman reporting live, thanks very much. joining me now for more on this is commercial pilot and publisher of jet wine.com, robert mark. robert, welcome. >> thank you. >> reporter: so the ntsb chair is trying the assure the american people that we have the safest flight system in the world. let's play it. >> we are the global gold standard for safety around the world. but we have to maintain that standard. we are very, very fortunate here that this didn't end up in something more tragic. mike: to you agree with her

assessment? >> i absolutely do. mine, the max, 737 max serieses has had a pretty storied history in its short life, and i think the most important part is that this door plug that flew out, it was supposed to have been dealt with at the factory. it's supposed to be permanently sealed so that the it doesn't come out. and, again, this looks like one more of those, you know, boeing letting something slip kind of situation. mike: the ntsb chair says they're still looking for that door. how critical is that to the overall investigation? >> oh, i think the door panel will certainly be critical because there are only -- they're only going to be able to tell if there was a fail offof the actual component, the door, when they find it. right now they have absolutely no idea why that panel blew out of the airplane.

was it the area around the door or was it the door itself. mike: no one was sitting in the seats closest to the door. the plane was flying at 16,000 feet just 10 minutes from the airport. how fortunate were all those factors? >> el -- well, as the chairman said is, it's extremely fortunate if because the pressure differential at, say, 35,000 feet is extremely -- it's much increased. and if that door panel had gone out, everything that wasn't tied down would have probably gone with it out that door. people, books, laptops, coat e, you name it, it would have gotten suckedded right out of that door. mike: now investigators need to figure out whether it's a problem with the part made by spirit aerosystems or whether it's a boeing problem. how difficult is it to get to the bottom of that? >> well, it shouldn't be --

overall, it's always a boeing problem. i mean, they're the manufacturer. but again, when they talk about the subcontractor, they should be able to figure that out pretty quickly. i'm not sure exactly which portions of the fuselage spirit puts together. i believe it's pretty much all of it. but, again, they're going to be able to see if this was a random vent event where someone forgot something. who knows what. but it should be fairly easy to figure that out. mike: we're nearly out of time, but this was a brand new aircraft, so you know it wasn't age, right, being a factor. >> no, it should absolutely not be age. and, again, that's -- you know, it was coming town the line, and somebody -- down the line, and somebody missed something somewhere. but again, this is not the first time that we've seen quality issues with boeing aircraft in the last three or four years.

mike: robert mark, aviation with expert, thank you so much for your time and analysis today. >> you're most welcome. ♪ mike: republican candidates are campaigning in the hawkeye state this weekend as the iowa a caucuses are just over a week away. bill me lieu gin is live from des moines,, iowa, with the latest updates. hello, bill. >> reporter: hey, mike p good afternoon to to you. former president trump remains the man to beat. he's gone an enormouslead in all of the polls, but his opponents say he just is not the right person to be the republican nominee this year. they feel it's going to be a referendum on past grievances, the 2020 election, january 6th, and they feel that is going to may into democrats' hands. here's ron desantis here in iowa. >> look, this is another, i think, caution with respect to donald trump. he doesn't have any plan to deal with this. i think the worse thing for us is to just repeat the 2020

election and have kind of the same thing happen again. >> reporter: and this is the video of former president trump speaking in clinton, iowa. he says, look, time is running out for voters out there if they want to reverse the damage that the he says the biden administration is causing to the country. despite his huge lead in the polling, he is still urging his supporters, don't get complacent, get out there and caucus for me. take a listenful. >> -- listen. >> but right now we're a laughing stock all over the world. [applause] so this election is our last chance to save america. the battle begins in iowa. it begins right here. [cheers and applause] first in the nation. it begins right here in iowa on january 15th. >> reporter: and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley also been on a full-on blitz of the state of iowa. her poll numbers have been moving up in recent months. she's been enjoying some positive momentum. however, in the last ten days or

so she has had a serious of gaffes. she's tried to move past that telling voters here in iowa if you elect her, you are going to get a happy warrior. take a listen. >> you will get a happy warrior that's going to really focus on your freedoms and your rights and your ability to make your own decisions and never have government tell you what to do, how to say it or where to go. >> reporter: and florida governor ron desantis has an event kicking off here in iowa a little over an hour from now. as for nikki haley, she doesn't have any events today, however, we are told on background she will have events starting tomorrow, and she's planning to have more events but less speeches moving forward. we'll send it back to you. mike: bill melugin live in des moines, many thanks. maria: on the latest in 2024 politic, joining me today is bill mcginley and capital council llc partner jonathan

kott. gentlemen, welcome. eight days to iowa. monday night iowans go to caucus. do you think iowans are still making their decision? >> yes, i do. i think this is the election-sensitive time period where caucus us-goers make their final decisions. i do think president trump is going to win the iowa caucuses. the real ballot's going to be for second place between ambassador haley and governor desantis, and i think the more they get out to talk to iowans, the better chance they have to succeed. so that's where i really think the contest is going to be because that's, ultimately, the launching pad into new hampshire which is coming just a little bit later. mike: so the key is meeting expectations or beating them, right, jon? >> you have to beat expectations since right now they're expected to lose by 30 or 40 points. i guess losing by 20 points will be a positive sign and, hopefully, one of them will be able to spin that into some momentum going into new hampshire. but, again, if you're down 30 or 40 points, i don't know what

expectation-beating means. mike: okay. on the other side, you have president biden doing a speech saying that former president trump is a threat to democracy. here's former speaker nancy pelosi. >> trump was a president, people believe a president when he speaks. that's why i was so glad that joe biden yesterday at valley forge, a bulwark of our strength and here our president was at that location telling the truth about what happened on january 6th. mike: bill, what about this line of attack from the president and hissal -- can his allies? >> i think what they're trying to do is deflect and distract from the southern border which is a complete disaster and controlled by the cartels, rising crime, inflation, small businesses, lack of credit because of rising interest rates. and i i think that that's all this is designed to do, is to say don't look at the kitchen table issues that are really impacting america's family, but instead, what happened three years ago. i also think that the democratic

party really needs to do its own soul searching here, because if you hook at the tactics that the biden administration has deployed against their presidential primary if rivals, no debates, trying to keep people off the ballot, manipulating the primary schedule to favor the president as opposed to allowing an open and free contest to see who could actually win the democratic nomination, i think this the real threat is some of those tactics including others they're deploying against former president trump. mike: former vice president mike pence said this election will not be decided by three yearing aing. >> i understand why president biden wants to focus on three years ago. the record of this administration has a weak withenned america at home and abroad, and, you know, i actually don't think the election's boeing to be decided on a tragic day three years ago. i think it's going to be decides orphan the failed policies of the -- decided on the failed policies of the biden administration. mike: what about that point, jon? >> i think it'll be about both.

i think biden will often on his record -- run on his record, but donald trump is the reason that one of the most heinous acts in our country's history occurred on january 6th. his lies, his preeted lies made -- repeated lies made people come to the capitol, storm it and try to overthrow the government. that has almost amounted to domestic terrorism, what he did, and it is -- the president needs to call it out every day, but he also needs to call out his record. he's had huge accomplishments, and he needs to do both, and i think the biden campaign can do. the fact that he's calling it out is partially because there are the republicans today, we saw elise stefanik earlier on the sunday show try to act like it was just something that happened a couple years ago, maybe the fbi was involved, these people are still being held hostage. you have a third of people who still believe the big lie that donald trump told them that forced people to come to the capitol to riot. i was there that day locked in my office til 9:00.

i couldn't leave because we didn't know where these people were going to go, so it is very important the american people are reminded of this. mike make bill, is a bit of a trap to get stuck talking about the past and if not the future? >> i think it's a big trap, and the nominee is going to have to address the issues that are facing american families and small businesses that have traditionally men the engine of -- been the engine of job growth in america. we have a failed foreign policy right now that has resulted in a land war in europe, a land, israel versus hamas that could be a wider crisis, and we see this time and again where america's perceived as weak abroad, and authoritarian regimes step in to fill the void. that has implications both in terms of the war fighters we have stationed abroad under daily attack but also the economic issues we're facing at home. mike: john -- jon, you're a longtime manchin aide, but you're about to go on a listening tour with the senator. what do you anticipate? >> are he's headed to new hampshire on pretty to listen to voters and see if there's, you

know, a voice out there that the moderate majority needs. and if he, you know, wants to give them the voice that they haven't had in washington. he thinks that, you know, the country -- our political parties are ruled by the extremes, and he's hoping too see if there's a place in the middle for somebody like him to give them somewhere to go and voice their frustration. so headed to new hampshire on friday with my old boss. mike mike gentlemen, thanks very much. for more on the case over former president trump's 2024 colorado ballot eligibility that's set to be heard by the supreme court next month, i'm joined by attorney lexie rigden. lexie, good afternoon. >> good to see you. mike: so, as expected, the supreme court's going to hear debates about the colorado ballot issue involving the former president. set the stage. what do you anticipate? >> well, this is for all the marbles, mike. this is going to be really important because if the supreme court who has to decide whether the colorado supreme court red in its decision that trump can be off the ballot, if they agree

with that decision, then trump is off the ballot in colorado, and if that's going to set the stage for other blue states to be able to do the same thing. basically, copying the exact legal framework. but if trump wins, which is expected that the supreme court is not going to simply uphold everything the colorado supreme court did, then that's going to be a massive blow to other states that want to keep him off the ballot, and it may actually be outcome determinative in whether they can or not. mike: to your point, it isn't just about colorado. we've got a map basically showing all the places where there are potential challenges going on. so we are getting into caucus and primary season starting a week from tomorrow. do you expect the high court will act swiftly. >> i do expect the high court to act swiftly. as we know, it's usually in june when the big decisions come out, but they tonight have the luxury of waiting here -- don't have the luxury of waiting here. i can't imagine the holidays that were ruined with partners and associates and law clerk,s

having to do all this research, but it's really important that this comes out now because right now we have this, like, piecemeal thing going on in the country where some states want him on the ballot and some states don't, and then we have the issue in maine where an unelected official has kicked him off the ballot. and in colorado the court actually determined he shouldn't be on the ballot. even though elections are usually the providence of the state, this cannot stand where we have different states making different decisions. and what's kind of scary about this even for democrats is that there are people in less states that are saying -- in red states that are saying, all right, kick joe biden off for insurrection because of the abysmal conditions at the border. we think that's an insurrection. so for the sake of our democracy, the supreme court needs to rule on this. and they don't need to decide whether trump committed insurrection. in fact, i don't think they want any part of that. i think they can decide this narrow arely. for example, if they say section

three of the 14th amendment does not apply to the office of the presidency, then it's over. then trump's on the ballot. mike: we know it's a conservative majority on the court including three jus it isings -- justices picked by the former president. how awkward does that make the whole process here? >> i think it's just rife with whatever decision is made, they're going to say it's partisan. so if they support president trump and they overturn what went on in the colorado supreme court, they're going to say it's partisan. if they don't, they're also going to say it's partisan. so i think that the supreme court is going to want to stay very far away from the question of whether there was an insurrection. and so even if they determine if they rule this way that section three of the 14th amendment does apply to the office of the presidency, there's still the question as to whether kicking somebody off the ballot is self-executing. so they could even go there and say even if it does apply, we till need some type of act of congress to decide somebody can't be on the ballot.

it just can't be random elected people in states determining what happens in certain states and then there are other states that have different decisions being made. so i don't think they act on the insurrection, and i think they want to stay far away from that. mike fascinating analysis. lexie rigden, happy new year to you and your family. new details on when white house administration officials found out about defense secretary lloyd austin's intensive care stay. we will have the latest after the break. ♪ everyday, more dog people are deciding it's time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmer's dog. made by vets and delivered right to your door precisely portioned for your dog's needs. it's an idea whose time has come. ♪

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mike: defense secretary lloyd austin out of the hospital and recovering as many know why the president and public were not aware of his time in intensive care as tensions build in the middle east. lucas tomlinson is live with more from wilmington, the delaware, where he is following the president. hello, lucas. >> reporter: mike, defense secretary lloyd austin spent the bulk of this week in the hospital under very mysterious circumstances, at one point he was transfer thed to the icu. many republicans are angry that the defense chief went mitch a. without informing his chain of command. >> it's worse than just he didn't notify the white house. they actually notified the white house and everyone else that he was working there if oklahoma

during that time period when he was actually hospitalized, and his number two was on vacation and not available as well. even, apparently, the national security council didn't know it, white house didn't know it, congress didn't know it. >> reporter: now here's the timeline, mike. late friday the pentagon released a vision statement saying austin was admitted to walter reed on monday for complications following recent elective surgery. the nature of that surgery remains unknown. at one point austin became so ill, he was rushed to the icu. his authorities were delegated to his deputy who was on vacation in pert eerie coe. officials say even she didn't know austin was in the hospital. u.s. forces have been active in the middle east in their boss' absence, of course, carrying out a drone strike in iraq on thursday while austin remained in the hospital. warships continue shooting down drones in the red sea. create ecs wonder with everything going on in the world right now, mike, why would the defense chief choose to have this elective surgery right now. officials say the white house

was not informed of austin's absence for over three days. in a statement last night, austin took full responsibility saying, quote: i could have done a better job insuring the public was appropriately end informed. i commit to doing better. but this is important to say, this was my medical procedure, and i trach full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure. so while republicans have pounced, many democrats have stood up for austin. >> -- does have a duty to keep the public informed, and i don't know whether it was him or somebody inside of the military establishment that decided to do it this way, but i'm sure he will do a little better going forward as he said he would. >> reporter: we're told president biden spoke to his defense secretary last might on the phone to wish him a speedy recovery, mike. mike: lucas, what does this say about the relationship between the commander and chief and his secretary of defense?

>> reporter: the fact, mike, that the president didn't know his defense secretary was in the hospital for over three days makes you wonder how often they communicate. you figure the president speaks to his secretary of state on a daily basis, certainly the national security adviser, jake suggest sullivan, but if the president didn't know his defense secretary was in the hospital, just makes you wonder how close they are and if austin is out to have loop, mike. mike: lucas tomlinson live up the road in wilmington, delaware, thanks very much. impeachment proceedings for homeland security success -- secretary alejandro mayorkas set to bin this week as migrants have streamed across the border in record number. we'll go live to eagle pass, texas, after the break. ♪ ar bolder. ♪ ♪boost♪ nutrition for now.

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security committee launches its formal impeachment proceedings against mayorkas. senior correspondent casey stegall is live with more from eagle pass, texas. hello, casey. >> reporter: lei, mike, good to be with you -- hey, mike. eagle pass, by the way, is part of the del rio border patrol sector, and the chief giving updated numbers for the final week of december leading up to the new year where close to 13,000 migrant encounters were made, and that includes neary 2,000 gotaways -- nearly 2,000 not gotaways. four cls were captured as were 31 large groups, 100 or more at one time, and 13 smuggling cases disrupted. and, again, we're only talking about a 7-day period of time. secretary mayorkas has made several trips to eagle pass since this crisis began. tomorrow will make at least his fourth visit to meet with leaders on the ground and tour a few different locations. last week while on "special report," he still would not use

the word crisis to describe this issue despite more and more of his democratic leaders conceding that that's exactly what this has become. >> this is a crisis. it is a crisis. and i think we need to look at the american public straight in the eye, say it's a crisis and that we're going to get together, work and both democrats and republicans, the white house, we have to get outside of our comfort zones and come up with a compromise. >> reporter: now, $5.5 million worth of cocaine was blocked from coming into the u.s. this past week. almost 173 pounds of it discovered by agents at the that sin that port of industry, part of the el paso sector. the drugs were hidden inside giant rolls of black plastic that were loaded onto a box truck that was trying to enter the country, or but it was seized by agents. mike?

mike: casey stegall live in eagle pass. casey, thanks very much. the migrant crisis continues to inundate cities like new york, denver and chicago. some mayors recently tried to set rule on when and where buses could drop off migrants, a problem that suburbs are now facing. chicago alderman raymond lopez joins me now to talk more about the crew sis this his -- crisis in his city. welcome. >> thank you, mike. mike: how are president biden and chicago's mayor, brandon johnson, doing in handling this migrant crisis, in your view? >> i think the open border democrats like my mayor and like our president are completely failing in this moment. regardless of what secretary mayorkas wants to say, we are seeing a border crisis that is now extending to the backyards of the city of chicago and our neighboring suburb you shoulds, and we are -- sub you ares, and we are inundated with 29,000 individuals who up until recently were shipped by bus and

now private plane and other sub you ares, and we're importing them into our city. and it's simply not acceptable that my fellow democrats refuse to call out the president for not securing the border and putting an end to this charade all in the president name of increasing immigration in our country. it's incorrigible that we've forgotten about the daca kids who we promised to give a path to while opening the back door for all of these not only south south american asylum seekers, but from all across the world who know that the border is open and using it to their fullest. mike: texas governor greg abbott made an interesting point on the migrant crisis today. let's play it. >> we need to stop the magnet that is enticing people to cross our border illegally coming from more than 150 countries across the entire globe. and the way that you do that is to deny asylum to anybody crossing between a port of entry. mike: you may not agree with governor abbott on a number of

issues, but does he have a point on this one? >> i think he's absolutely correct in that you have to stop the magnet, and that was something that was even introduced during president bill clinton's immigration reform in the '90s. you have to stop and interrupt what is bringing everyone here. and i think that not only stopping the initial point of entry if you're going from one country to another which is a trump era policy that they want to bring back, but i think also the fact that you have to stop rewarding this behavior with the media with pardoning and temporary asylum status for individuals who come here and then giving them a court case ten years town the road with full federal benefits in the meantime -- down the road. they are using those benefits to help fuel that cycle by sending the money back home so that the next individual can make the next journey to our borders. you have to interrupt that cycle if you want to break this flow that seems to be unceasing. mike: the denver mayor today suggested it was a processing issue. let's play that. >> we have 30 or 40,000 people

arriving without work authorization, without federal support. it is going to be a huge strain on cities, but that doesn't mean we can't solve it. we could solve it if we actually had work authorization, if we had resources at the border so that you could adjudicate these asylum claims faster. mike motorcycle is it just about processing the migrants, or should we be focused on enforcing the law? >> well, i think the denver mayor's partially correct. this is about adjudicating these claims and determining whether or not the merits of the asylum cases is positive or negative. unfortunately for 90% of the individuals coming here wanting work is not grounds for asylum which means that they should be immediately denied and sent home. but a's not what a these individuals like the mayor of the city of chicago, brandon johnson, are asking for. they are asking for work permits so that these individuals can stay so that they continue to apply for jobs in the very cities that heir in and so that those cities themselves can ask for billions of dollars from the

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border officer during an israeli raid of the west bank city of janine. now, during this raid that did take place overnight, israel conducted an airstrike against a group of men they say were hurling explosive devices. a roadside bomb was used to kill kill kill the israeli officer. moving now to southern israel where today marks three months since the october 7th massacre, cover night israel announced it had completedded dismantling hamas' command structure in the northern part of gaza. it also comes as israeli forces continue their air and ground campaign against hamas in the central and southern parts of the strip. amid fierce fighting against different militant cells, israel is facing new questions about an airstrike near the city of khan yunis that killed two journalists this morning. their car was targeted. fox news has reached out to the israeli military for comment about that strike. shifting now to israel's northern front, yesterday hezbollah are fired more than 40

rocket into northern israel in what they called an initial response to last week's killing of the deputy chairman in beirut. israel immediately responded with airstrikes against lebanon. the real focus for israel the possibility of a broader regional conflict, part of the reason antony blinken is in the region. right now he's in doha, he'll travel to israel next week to determine, a, what's next for gaza after the war and, b with, how the region can avoid that larger conflict. mike? mike mike trey yingst live in tel aviv. trey, many thanks. for more on this, joining me live in the studio is senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracy's anthony reguro, welcome. it's been three months since the hamas attacks. what is your assessment of how the military operation by the israelis is going? >> well, you know, they're trying to push back on hamas, and as trey noted, they've a also getting -- they're also getting attacked from the north

from hezbollah. secretary blinken is in the region trying to deescalate and, you know, suggest that the israelis should deescalate. it's really about iran. that's e the missing piece here. iran is moving all these pieces on the board. yemen, we didn't mention that. yemen is attacking ships in the red sea, and they're also, iran is expanding its nuclear program as well. it's less about deescalation for israel and more about biden should be in the region talking about how they're going to roll back iran as the patron and the proxy of all these groups. mike: israel's president spoke about the situation today. let's play it. >> when you have an empire of evil emanating from tehran with arms in syria with, in lebanon, in iraq and in yemen which increases the costs of living of every american because of hijack ising in the high seas, it means it's a regional battle with

impacts on the entire global situation. mike: how is the biden administration's response to iran at this point? >> well, it's mostly appease if. and that's unfortunate. -- appeasement. the biden administration wants a nuclear deal with iran. that deal is really off the table even if the administration doesn't want to admit that at this point. the administration, the things they should be doing, increasing sanctions back to where it was in the trump administration and hitting back at iran directly and its proxies. not hitting things where the administration knows we'll have minimal impact. they can have an impact on strikes in yemen, in iraq and syria and elsewhere, and they can telegraph to the iranians that if it doesn't stop, there might have to be strikes inside iran as well. mike: so what more could the president and the pentagon do to show the regime in tehran that we're not messing around? if. >> well, i mean, this is where secretary austin and that whole controversy that's developing

here is so troublesome, that, you know, we have to know more about what was going on there and is the administration if including the civilian leaders at the pentagon in some of these conversations if they didn't know that the secretary wasn't even, you know, on duty. the strikes that they could do against the houthis, they can do much more rather than just monitoring the area in the red sea and elsewhere. you know, you see -- everyone's seen the maps where the shipping routes are going all the way around africa and avoiding that entire renal. that's a failure of this administration to keep that waterway open. and then the real conversation they need to be having internally with senior civilian leaders at the pentagon is should there be strikes inside of iran. no one wants to go that route, but it might take that to restore deterrence with iran because right now iran is pressing and pressing and pressing. they have been since october 7th, and the administration's response has been wolfely in--

woefully inadequate. mike: to that point, we've had attacks on troops stationed in iraq and syria, now we've got attacks from the houthis on shipping, so it makes you wonder what would it take for the administration to do more. >> well, that's right. it sounds like in this scenario the only people with a plan is iran. and they have been moving up their escalation ladder and and thinking at some point the u.s. would respond, you know? if attacking u.s. troops, attacking shipping in that area. but at every turn we have not or we've responded with really minimal responses, the bare if minimum. and right now the administration wants to avoid what they're saying is a larger, wider war. we're already in it. and so for them, it's about are restore thing deterrence tenderness. it may take significant strikes to get us back to that point, but the administration has themselves to blame for not doing anything significant since october 7th. mike: so ec tech secretary of

defense if austin is out of intense intensive care but still in the hospital. your thoughts on that and the lack of communication to other senior officials including the president until days later. >> yeah. i mean, i worked at the national security council in the trump administration. this is shocking. you know, of course, you know, wish the secretary a speedy recovery -- mike: sure. >> but, to me, it's clear that he cannot come back in that position. he made a colossal mistake here. more and more that comes out, i think he either has to resign or the president has to really ask for his less ig e nation and then move -- resignation and then move forward. i'm also concerned that the white house didn't know or didn't ask where senior leadership in the pentagon was for an entire week. that has implications for civilian leadership of the military, and i hope those questions will be asked by congress in the coming days on both sides, republicans and democrats, because that's a significant question. mike: the secretary of defense

was in the hospital. his deputy was on vacation, and nobody here at the white house seemed to know about it. >> right. didn't ask questions. there weren't any, you know, why is, why is the secretary not joining this meeting or things of that sort. that suggests perhaps that there, you know, there's a problem with, you know, the white house not reaching out to the civilian leadership there. mike: anthony, thank you very much for your time and analysis today. in the ukraine, the white house now confirming russia fired me-supplied short-range missiles into ukraine in an apparent escalation of north korea's support of moscow in the ongoing conflict. the russian strikes were part of the the biggest missile and drone attack since the start of the full scale war almost two years ago. national security council spokesman john kirby expects russia will continue to use north korea-supplied weapons in its war against ukraine. a powerful winter storm sweeping across the northeast this weekend with. the latest on the storm's impact

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mike: a tornado was spotted in fort lauderdale, florida, last night. the panel cloud touched down and generated sparks on the ground before it moved out over the ocean. officials said there were no injury ises reported and damage appeared to be minor. travel delays and cancellations today as nor east or impacts part of the eastern seaboard and brings a myriad of snow, wind and freezing rain amid the renal's first major winter storm of the year. c.b. cotton is at new york's laguardia airport with more. hello, c.b. >> reporter: hi, mike. people are going to be shoveling or hunkered down today because this nor'easter brought significant snow florida a&m to

upstate new york -- snowfall to upstate new york. some of these places got half a foot of snow if not more. now this snow pile-up causing flight cancellations and delays to do the same. early sunday afternoon about 20% of boston the's flights are canceled and about 20% are delayed. over in connecticut, similar totals. this blast of winter brought significant snow accumulation to the higher elevations of new york, new jersey and connecticut, but the nor'easter did not give new york city the dramatic finale it was hoping for. most the -- most of the snowfall turned to rain once it got to the city, and now the big apple has not had an inch of snow accumulation in nearly 700 days. still, emergency officials are closely monitoring the major transportation arteries that connect new york and new jersey especially for the start of the workweek. >> we make sure that our bridges and tunnels are flowing appropriately, keep the traffic

moving, keep them moving safely and then providing the communities the information that they want and need to be sure that they have a good commute. >> reporter: now, meteorologists are warning that as temperatures drop in parts of new england and the northeast, slick, wet roadways can make travel especially dangerous. mike: c.b. cotton, thanks so much. that's all for this hour of "fox newse, w live." we saw prevagen. i did read the clinical study and went ahead and gave it a try. i feel that prevagen is helping me with overall clarity and as a pharmacist, i've recommended it to, not only just customers, but also to friends and family as a product to try. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. israel is under attack. the war against israel began with the murder of hundreds of precious children. in this orphanage bomb shelter, we're praying for god's help,

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