in terms of what the nsc does, that needs a total overhaul.directorate that spent most of its time on hurricanes because of katrina. now that was a catastrophic failure, and needed to be gotten after, but you do not need a directorate at the nsc to do hurricanes now. we are good at it. a lot of the stuff that accrued, like barnacles during the global war on terror, that is all still there. does it need to be there? there are things the entity does not do, like energy. the decision was made to disband in 2020 the group that did energy policy for the nsc. that is deeply necessary. and also in terms of international economics, so i would say more broadly about the government, the two agencies i would most like to get after would be d.o.e. and commerce, both of whom have massive capabilities and authorities that are not currently being deployed, both of whom would be frontline agencies against china. so figuring out how we do that -- and i've had a lot of interesting discussions with senator cruz, who is now the ranking number on the commerce comm

has authority to s pen nsc they work geographically near me.cause there is definitely a ten in the first trump administration but you mention the nsc is only to build that up. many take on connecting or detaching that for schedule f controversy? >> i am his fan of the schedule f it is a reform that has been long in then making. what's interesng friends very ol democrats in the career brook bureaucracy like it they think it's a good idea. w it would give them more latitude. we had a couple folks the trump administration to the nsc who wound up becoming political appointees giving up their career status because they wanted to stayger. i think that reform is deeply necessary in terms of what the does. i think that needs a total overhaul. we still had an entire directorate that spent most of hise of katrina. now that was a catastrophic failure and needed to be cotton after but you do director at the nsc to do hurricanes. we are good at it now.. a lot of the stuff that accrues like when global war on terror is still there there's things the nsc does

chief of staff for austin was told on tuesday and he did not directly relay to the president or the nsce had the flu. so waiting to see if there is an immediate response from the white house on this. obviously there's been a lot of criticism over how this is handled, speculation of resignation. right now according to the pentagon gaggle that's not the case. happy to hear he is in good condition, still at walter reed, however, and moved out of the icu. so, getting peter doocy at the white house and what kind of response from them, this is likely going to be scrutinized quite some time. >> john: some question who authorized the strike on thursday if the secretary of defense was in the hospital. according to the pentagon folks, authorized before the hospitalization and the centcom commander knew. general, when you hear the circumstances of this, particularly, that the secretary of defense's chief of staff had the flu and that's why he didn't pick up the phone and notify either the white house chief of staff or the national security adviser, what do you make of that? >> yeah, john, look, th

secretary austin was hospitalized on thursday morning, are you saying president found out later than the nscthey informed the president thursday evening. >> kayleigh: great question, thursday evening, not friday, get your facts straight. >> emily: what i find troubling about john kirby's explanation, figure head of cabinets, there is a group, it is okay, we don't want decisions in hands of one set. the worry is not only that chain of succession was out of the country, sick, in the hospital, whatever, the president and no one else noticed. why is this such a big deal? >> white house had to come out with a statement saying they will make sure cabinet officials make sure they inform the president when they are incapacitated. wasn't that already the procedure? they don't even bother to let him know when a top cabinet official undergoes the knife for a cancer treatment, that is a serious problem, the world is on fire and troops being attacked in middle east and defense secretary thought this was appropriate time. i understand not a lot he can do, but he did not think it was good for him to step d

he and his staff should have notified the nsc and the white house.t's good to let your boss know if you're hospitalized. dod is truthfully, amara, and this is the important point, is prevented from talking about the medical issues of any of their personnel due to privacy issues and hipaa requirements that require privacy in health care disclosures. he said he'll try to do better. that's a good thing. i thought the most important part of that press release is when he said this was his medical issue and he took full responsibility for the disclosure decision. i admire him for that. >> general, zoo he was on -- the secretary was on the phone with the president on the day of the admission to the hospital on new year's day. we don't know if this was before or after this procedure and maybe you don't tell everybody on the call, hey, guys, i'm at walter reed and i'm going to go under general anesthesia. in that moment is it reasonable to expect he made a decision not to tell the president? >> i don't know, victor. >> i only ask that because you know him. he

troops in the middle east at least 160 times in nsc spokesperson says the nsc is working to the rightesponse speed when we hear you, thank you let's bring in kt mcfarland foreign policy expert from the trip administration and back to reagan if i'm not mistaken. how should we respond. i should've brought that out, how should we respond, should we attack the iranian proxies as we have been doing or now attack iran directly. >> we really have three options, do nothing which is effectively what the biden administration has done so far number two attack the proxies in yemen, and lebanon, in syria and iraq or three attack iran itself, i am all in favor of option to but with enormous augustine, so all those countries especially in yemen, don't agree 20 or 30%, limited them and take them out to grade them 90%. at the same time use economic weapons at your disposal followed by war sanctions, don't let iran's oil to the world. pump more american natural gas, drive the price of oil down, bankrupt iran and finally i would go to her allies who rely on iranian energy particularly the other energy a

i think that reform is deeply necessary in terms of what the nsc does.i think that needs a total overhaul. we still have an entire directorate that spent most of its time on hurricanes because of katrina. that was a catastrophic failure and needed to be gotten after, but you do not need aid director at this point for hurricanes. we are good at it now. so, in a lot of the stuff that kind of accrued like barnacles during the global war on terror, that's all still there. it doesn't need to be. there's things they do not do like energy. the decision was made to disband in 2020 the group that did energy policy. that is deeply necessary. now, and also in terms of international economics.na so i would say more broadly about the government the agencies i would like to most get after would be doe and commerce both of whom have massive capabilities and authorities that are not currently being deployed and would be front-line agencies against china. so, figuring out how we do that. there's been interesting discussions with senator cruz who is now the ranking member

forbids prosecuting a person who informs about bribe-takers, shmegal responded to the protocol of the nsc and assured that the prime minister did not divulge any information. in odesa , employees of the belgorod-dnistrian military unit were exposed, who helped men avoid mobilization. for $2,000, the official made documents for his clients declaring them unfit for military service service, and for $300 the men could also be removed from the military register, the state bureau of investigation said, the law enforcement officers documented the fact that the perpetrator received $7,000 from three people. searches are currently underway, and investigators are also trying to find out the suspect's accomplices and those who used his services. an employee of the district tcc and sp was notified of suspicion of abuse of influence. he faces up to 5 years in prison. currently , the issue of selecting a preventive measure for him is being resolved. white ticket for 100 dollars the law enforcement officers eliminated. a large-scale channel for the illegal transportation of men abroad - the state borde

course of the last 72 hours holding two calls with president joe biden and multiple daily calls with the nsc the chairman of the joint chiefs and the commander. thursday, he gave the order to execute the strikes and we saw those play out late in the evening. the u.s. essentially carried out the warning that we have seen them threaten repeatedly. that if the houthi attacks on international shipping continues, the u.s. and the u.k. will be forced to act. where does this go for here as the houthis promise a response. and do the iranians essentially get into this and respond in their own fashion? those are the questions. >>> mixed reactions. some democrats are criticizing note getting congressional approval. >> you should have come as the constitution requires to congress. and that was echoed in a bipartisan way. jonathan jackson, many other senators and congress people. the constitution requires that if there is not an imminent threat of self-defense, that he has to come to congress and here we know, this has been going on since december. he assembled an entire international coalition. he certa

none other than prime minister shmagan, that is, is there a conflict of interest here, let's ask the nsc, it would be very interesting to hear their answer, or this social explosion that you are talking about said, can be accompanied not only with such total indignation, perhaps with some protest actions, and also to have some kind of legal basis, when people will be able to prove that they were not informed, and well, in the end , the computer declared that this is exactly this subscriber, has some kind of database, which states that and a person has such a phone number with which, by which you can communicate with this person, for example, is something like this possible, mr. andriy, the problem is that there will not be a full-fledged trial, they are following a special procedure, a court order is issued, a person is charged money, already a person... who received such a court decision can appeal, imagine what is happening, they will now stupidly automatically, on the basis of court orders, disconnect people from electricity and demand collection of debts. you are worried that this wi

course of the past 72 hours, holding two calls with presidential, and multiple daily calls with the nsc, the chairman of the joint chiefs, and the commander of u.s. central command. earlier on -- execute those strikes, and we saw those play out late in the evening. the u.s. essentially carried out the warning we have seen them threaten repeatedly, not if they're houthi attacks on international shipping, continue the u.s. and uk will be forced to act. that is what we have seen. of course the question, where does this go from here as the houthis promised a response and the iranians essentially get into this and respond in their own fashion, those are questions the u.s. has asked, and to find out the answer, we will watch the region very closely. oren liebermann, cnn, pentagon. >> houthi militants lashing out against the u.s. and uk's -- one senior leader issuing a statement, quoting, here we will confront america, make it kneel down, and burn it's battleships and all its bases, and everyone who cooperates. the houthi leader also called on the world to prepare for america's defeat, and vow

because they know they have intelligence that iran is behind this, or so that is what the nsc has stated. everyone is counting the 160 strikes or so that have happened since october 7 when hamas invaded -- you know, conducted terrorist attacks inside of israel. what we have to remember is this has been going on for a lot longer than that. years of popular mobilization, forces, proxies of the iranian government have been conducting multiple strikes against not only the u.s., but also the iraqi government. they have been fighting hard not just against isaiais in syria, also united states and anyone else that try to tamp down isis. so this is an opportunity for iran to use their proxy forces. and by the way, let me state for the record, iran could care less about any casualties that occur with the houthis or the pmfs or hezbollah or hamas. they just know this is an opportunity to continue to conduct strikes against the west, against the united states, because they don't want the u.s. forces in any of these middle eastern countries. >> joining us now from berlin is david sanger, political na

that is something ongoing, you have seen multiple people from this administration, from the nsc, from the state department traveling to the region. secretar y blinken speaking out about this. i'm not going to get ahead of those negotiations and where it stands. what i can tell you is what the department is doing. we want to make sure that israel has what it needs to defend itself in a fight against a terrorist organization, but we want to see those hostages released, we want to see humanitarian law is upheld, and we want to make sure that our forces across the region are protected. >> hamas killed americans on october 7th and has taken american hostages. this other group, whatever it is, just killed three american soldiers and wounded dozens more, at least 30 or 40 more. does the biden administration have any concern that these terrorist groups in the middle east think that they can do whatever they want to americans and there won't be any serious repercussions? >> well, we absolutely have concerns. and we have said publicly there will be repercussions. there will be a con ability hel

support completely in the islamic world, and even in much in the world as a whole, already john kirby , nscs listen to him, “we have spoken many times with the israeli government about reducing the intensity of hostilities. we believe that the time has come for this, and we are already talking about it negotiations, we have already taken some preparatory steps to get closer to this stage, israel is already partially withdrawing its troops, they have reduced the intensity of airstrikes, and we believe, look, any military campaign takes place in several stages, given that the idf has already put pressure on the hamas leadership, the next logical stage will be to reduce the intensity of hostilities. in order to make them more targeted, we believe that it is time to make this transition, and we are already negotiating on this topic, that is, not to kill in thousands, hundreds there, well, less and shoot at fewer children , try to kill there, but it must be said that the other side, however , is very active, we are talking about hamas, which continues to resist, and of course the houthis, who co

i was a senior official at the nsc, senior director for defense. my issue is, jake, that in november 2021, a d.o.d.i.g. report came out. i reviewed. it was flawed. filled with -- >> factual inaccuracies. >> factual inaccuracies. deliberate misrepresentations. half truths. by army officials. and i was concerned. why was i concerned? because i love the united states army. i'm a soldier. at the core of the army ethos is integrity, is the army value that undergirds everything we do. and i saw army officers not telling the truth, lying about it, and nothing was done about it. >> yeah. >> and -- >> go ahead. >> and that's the thing about this complaint, is the reason we filed the whistleblower reprisal complaint is because colonel matthews has been retaliated against because he brought forward his concerns to congress. and federal law does prohibit retaliation against military officers because they make a protected disclosure, meaning a disclosure of a violation of law, rule or regulation. so right now what we're doing is trying to ensure that nell matth

if we had had to have an nsc meeting last week with hicks in puerto rico and austin in the icu, dod, which would have been the lead on whatever the crisis was, would have been represented by the acting undersecretary of policy. and that's -- you know, that's not an ideal situation. so, i think over informing, having people be prepared so that we're not flat footed in the event of a crisis is the way to go. >> and i think everyone is happy and relieved that the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, is okay and is on the right end of hospitalization as far as we know. but, again, as you underscore the outstanding questions about his hospitalization, whether the public was adequately informed as well as white house and other cabinet members. victoria coats, appreciate it. thank you so much. >> thank you, fred. >>> meantime, we're also learning new details about the alaska airlines plane involved in a midair scare over oregon, when a part of the boeing 737 max 9 jet was blown off, leaving a gaping hole right there, as you see. the national transportation safety board says the sudden depres

i would like to know your thoughts on the corporation's stock ticker nsc having the acquisition with the united steel corporation and what are your thoughts on if it's a good time to buy? >> i think they are overpaying but they are strong and they want to be in here. i don't want you buying the stock. if you're going to on a steel company, you will on the best company in the world. newport. we are in a battle under whether the fed should cut rates or cut rates really a hard. i learned that perhaps not cutting rates is the way to go. people thinking they are bound to be cut our knots. so many managers are betting that way but i have to start thinking about how wrong they may be. the come back for the supermarket and breaking down what makes -- mean so you can break some money. the trend of pcs. i will chat with a brand-new ceo. and a nap company and kaz extend just had the biggest ipo sense birkenstock. i review what its debut means for companies hoping to go public. and i will tell you something. it is downright bullish so stay with cramer . >> don't miss a second of mad money. follo

no nsc council meetings. no one is talking to anyone e else.l allow this money to get hit," one right now i understand is in critical condition. more than 50 of them have traumatic brain injury, lifelong injury. i want to say one more thing. there is a requirement that they do a review of protocols. 2024 we will review protocols. your local high school principal -- when she isn't there, the vice principal is in charge. my local d.a.'s office. when i wasn't around as a d.a., there was a delegation of authority that had to be filed with the county clerk as to who was in charge when i'm not they are. it's. finally, is anyone talking to anyone? this, as well as a turkey -- there is another country. who is he talking to about has meetings in these countries? the president isn't talking to him. he is missing in action. is not speaking the secretary of defense. who is he having these discussions with? jordan, turkey, qatar, and greece. is he calling his mother and asking how he did over there? >> dana: i think the 30 day review is preposterous. it tak

the nsc official who worked on the claims of that book was pushed out by the trump administration before going through an arms process, so john bolton revealed an enormous amount about the president, and it is important for the historical record. i do think that everybody will work for trump is going to get pressed with the same question. >> that is a fascinating part of the book where an official who was charged with reviewing the book, because he writes about how she was basically trapped in a room in the west wing with six justice department officials were pressuring her to essentially block and turning into this -- since she got hardback by the biden administration. >> correct, it was a moment. >> maggie haberman, as, always thank you for bringing your reporting to the source. right now on capitol hill, lawmakers are in what could be and on a committee session. you do not see -- but this is tonight leading up to a vote on articles of impeachment for the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. could he be the first member of eight presidents cabinet to be impeached in nearly 1

is involved in the operations and sloppy and running out of old executive office building by junior nscffers, but this has been something that the obama administration did and micromanaged the war in afghanistan from the eob and i hope it's not happening now but the target selection is what we see so far is pretty weak and again, the houthis don't seem impressed and iranians aren't oppressed by it. if we restore the turns in -- deterrence in the region, we have to do what we did to trump administration and using all the tools of national power and economic tools and sanctions tools and military tools and the iranians keep this up and there's the price to pay. whether the ha has attacks on israel or the attacks by houthis shutting down the red sea with shipping and there's no consequence whatsoever with iran and zero consequence and where wouldn't they keep doing it? it's human nature. larry: i've said many times, look, i wish again austin all the best and that's a separate matter from the organizational breakdown and communication break down and wonder whether junior staffers in the whi

the nsc's john kirby saying, quote, there are no plans for anything other than for secretary austin tostay in the job. this after secretary austin failed to disclose his hospital stay and treatment in the icu. he was admitted a week ago. he's still in the hospital, but waited three days to inform the white house. let's take a look at the time line. we have learned on new year's day, secretary austin was hospitalized in the icu after he started experiencing pain following elective surgery. january 2nd, his responsibilities were transferred to his deputy secretary kathleen hicks w was on vacation in puerto rico, but she was not told why. on january 4th, hisy secretary and the white house werehe informed, and it wasn't until friday thathe public found out about the secretary's condition. secretary austin reasing this statement over the weekend saying i am very glad to on the mend and look forward to returning to the pentagon soon. i also understand the media concerns about transparency and i recognize i could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. i commit

she also worked at the nsc and u.s. trashtry department. let's start there with this "times" investigation on what went wrong on october 7th. the questions how israel could be so unprepared for what happened. what is your response to what we've learned but also the idea israel so stubbornly says they're not going to look into what really went wrong until after the war ends, whenever that might be. >> thanks, jonathan, and happy new year to you as well. i read into that "the new york times" investigation very deeply. i also listened to an interview with the reporter who uncovered it. and the fact is while the lack of intelligence and analysis and really believing this intelligence report, there was an intelligence report in july drafted by a young female analyst in the idf who was in the south and manning the gaza region, she was the one who raised the red flag and said this is coming, this is serious. there was a whole name for the war called jericho wall, and her bosses dismissed her and just kind of pooh-poohed the whole thing and said it

let's bring in john kirby, nsc coordinator for strategic communications. you with us. i do want to ask you off the top here some news that we have been seeing coming in from reuters that the houthis claim that they have hit a u.s. military ship with ballistic missiles in the gulf of aden. can you confirm that or can you give us more details on what has happened there? >> no, martha, i can't. as of the time i walked out of my office to come be with you, i had not seen any reporting like that at all. we know they fired three missiles this morning at two commercial vessels. one of them missed by a fairly significant margin and the other two were shot out of the sky by a u.s. navy destroyer. that's a fresh report i cannot confirm unfortunately. >> martha: we'll look to get more information on that and see what happened. as you point out, a lot of these attacks have been at commercial vessels and this report is that it hit a u.s. military ship. we'll see what we can learn on that. back to this issue of immigration and national security here at home. the voters

we talked about this on the show yesterday with the nsc coordinator, john kirby, who we very much appreciate. he comes on the show often. we're glad he does. but we asked him some pointed questions yesterday. watch this. >> john, do we have a southern border? >> do we have a what? >> do we have a southern border? >> yes, ma'am. of course we do. >> how come people can flow across it every day? hundreds and thousands -- 300,000 people in december. >> we're working very hard to try to fix that, martha. that's why we need congressional action. >> martha: okay. so as this border standoff ramps up, now you have this growing list of republican governors across the country that are supporting standing by the texan governor abbott who has put razor wire on his border to preserve and protect his own state. kristi noem of south dakota is among them. governor noen, thanks very much. good to have you here today. >> thanks for inviting me to talk about this. this is incredibly important. governor abbott has done the exact right thing. i'll drive him more razor wire from south dakota if i have to for him t

keep us apprised of what happens with the state department and the nsc as you try to get some help for your husband. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. thanks for coming. >> thank you. >>> and the suffering people in uvalde, the parents who have seen this report now and are trying to absorb it are speaking. let's go back. >> and local officials do what wasn't done that day, do right by the victims and survivors of robb elementary. terminations, criminal prosecutions and our state and federal government enact sensible gun laws because robb elementary began the day an 18-year-old was allowed to purchase an ar-15. >> most importantly from what we've seen with this report and, you know, i commend the doj on doing this, is that although there isn't every name of the officers that were there so that we can hold them accountable, because we have to do our own digging most of the time, there are names that are named. and it is time because our community is so divided because of this, because they don't want to believe that the people that they grew up with failed our

she's a great lady, nsc director, just saying the number doesn't make any sense and we have looked atn't understand the green new deal, and i don't understand global warming. i myself am just freezing on this set. >> sandra: larry, great to have you. i don't keep it so cold here, do i? oh, gosh. >> larry: it's so cold, this country is cold. >> sandra: larry, see you at 4:00 on fbn. >> john: if he's cold in the studio, tell him not to go to iowa. the pentagon is doing an off camera but on the record briefing about the houthis. u.s. thinks they will attempt a retaliation. they did fire anti-ship missiles on friday but didn't hit anything. they say the u.s. and britain struck just under 30 different locations in yemen in total. so, more on this in the hours ahead as we get more details about the strikes that happened yesterday and whether any more are in the offing. we'll be right back. so... i know you and george were struggling with the possibility of having to move. how's that going? we found a way to make bathing safer with a kohler walk-in bath. a kohler walk-in bath provides a secu

reporter: preventable he says, if the biden administration had been stronger on iran since day one but the nscpokesman pushing back on that today, listen. >> this idea somehow we whistled past the graveyard here and walked away from the challenge that iran poses just isn't borne out by the facts. iran, these proxy groups have been attacking our troops and facilities in iraq and syria well before this administration as well. >> reporter: now the president says he has the authority under article ii of constitution to respond to these attacks because of self-defense on our troops. back to you, larry. larry: thank you very much, edward lawrence, whistling past the graveyard, yeah, sure. folks before we get back to general keane, i want to celebrate april 1th, 1988. all right? april 18th, 1988. why? because on that day at the direction of president ronald reagan, u.s. warships and aircraft sank six iranian navy ships and also took out two iranian oil platforms that were also used as command-and-control radar sites. i'm relying here from a good news report published by "the los angeles times." mr. r

now you've got john kirby, nsc spokesifman, he's denying that biden is withholding executive action on the border until he gets the money for ukraine. the president claimed for three years the border's secure. now he claims he's done all he can on the border. but he's the one blocking the house pass and -- house-passed secure the border act. he's the one not undoing the executive actions he did the first 100 days to weaken the border. your final word. >> and they lack the political will to do the right thing. they just don't care about what's happening to our nation's borders, they don't care what's happening with the country, and you're seeing the numbers and, obviously, you see what's happening in texas. and for all the problems in texas, i'm going to tell you that right now, it's that much worse in arizona, but a lot of the focus hasn't been there because we also have politicians that aren't bringing up the subject and showing you the truth. that's what it comes down to. they don't want the american public to know the truth. elizabeth: as you know, we've already been reporting on wh

and poindexter shredded documents at the nsc this is sort of famously part of this scandal, destroyingential finding that authorized the inian arms sale. so it does not exist in the special prosecutor. obviously c't find it, but have evidee that it happened. the administration did not allow for the declassification of material needed to prosecute oliver north. so in some cases they cooperate. in some cases they stonewall. here is. reagan talking aboutpart lot abe national council in recent months. and i can tell you theydedicates who put in long hours for the nation's. they are eager and anxious to serve their country. one thing ill setting me is that no one kept proper records of meetings or decisions which led my failureo whether. i approved an arms shipment before or after the fact. i did approve it. i just can't say specifically en, but rest assured. there's plenty of record keeping now going on at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, so now do you all believe him? did you get the sense that i mean, this is the great communicator right we talked about reagan is one of the better at communicat

. >> the president has called these unjust and despicable the nsc spokesperson is saying the administration is going to the appropriate way to respond. the government is doing this while defense secretary lloyd austin is back at work in the office for the first time since complications and prostate cancer in december. here he is meeting the nato secretary-general. listen to this. >> let me start with my outrage and sorrow for the death of three brave u.s. troops in jordan in for the other troops who were wounded. president and i will not tolerate attack on u.s. forces and we will take all necessary actions to defend the u.s. and her troops. >> iranian proxy groups have attacked in the middle east 160 times. the attack over the weekend they killed three military members and injured dozens of others came from another proxy. listen to the president his message from earlier this month. >> say it again. [inaudible] >> iran does not want to war with us. >> authority delivered the message to iran. they know not to do anything. >> iran keeps packages processes that keep attacking ships in the red s

at a white house briefing in the last hour, the nsc spokesman, john kirby, confirmed the attacks but yemen's houthis. as the situation in the middle east escalates, big oil producer royal dutch shell has suspended all red sea shipments overliesing of more houthi attacks -- overliesings of -- over risks of more houthi attacks. edward lawrence at the white house with more on what appears to still be a very is serious hot zone. >> reporter: it is. and chevron is saying they will continue to go through the red sea, so we'll have to see when that shifts there. this latest flurry of attacks and responses by the u.s. comes after an anti-cruise, anti-ship cruise missile hit a u.s. owned and operated ship in the red sea. now, that started a faster response, a more intense response by the u.s. first. two navy if seal groups seized an iranian ship with advanced weapons bound for the houthis going after the supply chains here. the two seals though are missing in the ocean, that search is ongoing. we now learned that the the u.s. made its first preemptive strike the destroying four anti-ship ball

when robert o'brien came in, there was very much a feeling of entity between the president and the nsc so that relationship never quite worked. what i would advocate for, for whoever it becomes, if we do have a republican become president next november that the full role of the n president's mechanism to implement his or her will on this gigantic bureaucracy, as you said6yns!+ m>ss, zbldthis never happened. there was no case made. with the president still looking for additional money for ukraine, the amount that is for military assistance is not persuasive to me. you add onto that $9 billion in humanitarian assistance, which is additional in that supplemental, what is that? why are we doing that? i do not know voting democrat will get you where you want to go on this particular issue, because i do not think this administration has any intention of winning this war. brandan: i am not willing to die former model that. i risk my life once for a mission that was ill-defined and poorly executed, and i am not willing to do it again, nor am i willing to risk the lives of american soldiers to

but nsc spokesman john kirby says if israel was behind the attack, they have a right and responsibilitygo after hamas leadership. they've said that they're going to do that. now. blinken plans to meet with allies and partners across the region, hoping to prevent another middle east war that draws in the u.s.. the secretary believes it is the responsibility of the united states of america to lead diplomatic efforts to tackle those challenges. and it's expected secretary blinken will also push to get more humanitarian aid into gaza. >> reporting in washington, i'm trevor shirley. >> the u.s. mint has started selling coins commemorating american abolitionist. harriet tubman, there is a $5 gold coin in a one dollar and half dollar silver coin available for purchase. all 3 are also available in a costing $836. each coin carries a small surc arge that will be donated to the national underground railroad freedom center and the perry home and home incorporated after escaping slavery in the 18 40's, harriet tubman fought to free dozens of slaves to escape routes that became known as the undergro

nsc spokesperson john kirby said the u.s.t looking for a war. we're not looking to expand this. the houthis have a choice to make, and that is to stop these reckless attacks. >> reporter: the fact is mr. biden has been messaging don't for a while and taking a defensive posture waiting for a missile to launch first and shoot it down. military experts say the administration handled this backwards. >> really to have the kind of effect we want to have we have to got to strict iran, we have to strike really the heart of this thing and you know, really that's not an es escalatory str. there are targets that we can hit in iran that would send really the kind of message we need to send. >> reporter: the houthis and iran not backing down. larry. larry: edward lawrence, thank you ever so much. for much more on this let's bring in general keith kellogg, former national security advisor in the trump administration and afpi center for american security co-chair. keith, thank you very much. it seems like, i know we're striking back, we, th

sitting op launch pads, then they, of course, will strike and destroy what they say is in self-defefnlts nsco say yesterday. >> the houthis need to stop these attacks. they can make that choice. clearly, they're made -- they've made opposite choices. so we have choices the make too, and we have options available to us as well. we'll continue to explore those options. clearly, one of the options that we are and will continue to take are in the military realm, if needed. >> reporter: and, neil, you're so right, the houthis are not backing down, continuing to fire these iranian-provided missiles into the red sea and gulf of today ash a -- aden. they struck three separate u.s.-owned commercial vessels in just this past week, since monday. fortunately, those ship captains reported no injuries and only minor if damage to the ships. president biden even acknowledging as much. listen here. >> reporter: are the airstrikes in yemen working? >> well, when you say working, are they stopping the houthis? no. are they going to continue? yes. >> reporter: finally, neil, we have no update on those two missi

you know, john kirby knows this, the admiral, the nsc spokesman, he knows better.ent knows better. the more than people know better. just tell us what's happening. and i know lloyd austin, i like lloyd austin, lloyd has worked for me on two different occasions. come on, guys, you guys know better. griff: the pentagon spokesperson, pat ryder, saying, oh, listen, i know this was an oversight but, you know, the deputy secretary of defense had it all, no worries, it wouldn't have made a difference at all. but, again, god forbid something should escalate like iran, if tehran strikes tel aviv and with we don't even know right now what austin's condition is, i don't believe. i don't. it's not public that i see. does that matter? >> yeah, it does. two words, trust, confidence. the american people have to have trust and confidence in their defense department and their military forces. and the commanders on the ground know better. they know what's happening. you go out and ask a senior commander, come on, guys, we can do better than that. what they're really doing is just ta

take a listen to this columbia law professor who is a former nsc state and dod official. >> this is dangerouseral reasons. the president may need advice, military or defense policy advice on short notice. we have military forces engaged in active operations under threat. in some cases under attack. and you never know whether there might be some urgent and unexpected crisis for which a secretary or acting secretary is needed immediately. there absolutely has to be a review. this is a terrible and scary break down at the top of the pentagon. nick: the pentagon promises to do that review and insists there was no break of continuity of military operations. and despite the political criticism the pentagon says austin has no plans to resign and the white house has no plans to ask for it. amna: great reporting as always. nick: thank you so much. ♪ geoff: investigators say a key piece of the plane that blew off an alaska airlines flight has been recovered. a teacher near portland, oregon found the so-called door plug in his backyard and authorities hope it will help them figure out what went wrong. t

official confirms to nbc, the pentagon did not overrule the president or senior officials at the nscur days. austin pledged to, quote, do better in the future. the pentagon has often resumed his duties for the evening. he remained hospitalized so they. and a strong winter storm burlington on the northeast. new england and mid-atlanta expect around a foot of snow. other parts could see high winds and freezing rain. officials warned residents to stay upright and prepare for possible power outages. more american voices right after this break. and find your voice. you know? we really need to work on your people skills. i could've waited to tell my doctor my heart was racing just making spaghetti... but i didn't wait. i could've delayed telling my doctor i was short of breath just reading a book... but i didn't wait. they told their doctors. and found out they had... atrial fibrillation. a condition which makes it about five times more likely to have a stroke. if you have one or more of these symptoms irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue or lighthead

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here's the nsc's john kirby a little earlier. >> we're going to sit tight here on any additional funding for unrra until they work their way through this, and then we'll make the appropriate decisions on not only the investigation results but also what they do about those results. >> let's bring in nbc's raf sanchez in tel aviv. raf, i understand you have now been able to read through these allegations. what can you tell us. >> reporter: chris, earlier today we obtained this israeli security dossier laying out the allegations against these 12 members of staff at unrra, and we should be really clear, the dossier contains the allegations. it does not contain the evidence that supports them. we felt it was important to report this out. the u.s. and other countries are taking the allegations so seriously, they have paused funding to unrra in the middle of the crisis in gaza. a couple of examples of what's in the dossier, it alleges there was a school counselor as one of the many unrra schools who crossed into israel and along with his son kidnapped a female hostage. there's an allegation tha

this is lieutenant mark nsc knee and he is going to be the interim chief. you started with the department 2000 was sergeant by 2015 to 10 2019 currently overseeing the patrol division. canine animal control. and he was named the shows officer of the year twice in 2006 2014 police chief recruitment town hall is going to be held february 13th together feedback on hiring a new permanent chief. >> 6.39 is the time in the bay area's first women's soccer team kicks off its inaugural season in march. bay fc showed off its first jersey yesterday. there you see it. nike designed it. they're going to be available for fans to buy in february for women, including soccer legend brandi chastain started the team and chastain won. as you may remember, the world cup with team usa back in 1999. to come today and to have. >> 26 or so players like erm in the building. if somebody feels very it's a really cool because you realize that all the work and everything you've done up to now, when you see the play is coming together and you see them starr into jail on bond have a toget

official confirms to nbc, the pentagon did not overrule the president or senior officials at the nscfor four days. austin pledged to, quote, do better in the future. the pentagon has often resumed his duties for the evening. he remained hospitalized saturday. and a strong winter storm burlington on the northeast. new england and mid-atlanta expect around a foot of snow. other parts could see high winds and freezing rain. officials warned residents to stay upright and prepare for possible power outages. more american voices right after this break. as the world keeps moving, help prevent covid-19 from breaking your momentum. you may have already been vaccinated against the flu, but don't forget this season's updated covid-19 shot too. ♪♪ here's to... one year bolder. ♪♪ ♪boost♪ nutrition for now. choose advil liqui-gels for faster, stronger and longer-lasting relief than tylenol rapid release gels because advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. so for faster pain relief, advil the pain away. as the world keeps moving, help prevent covid-19 from breaking your momentum. you may

president biden directed the nsc, the department of defense and the state department to accelerate workh partners on the houthi attacks in the red sea, which was to be issued no heater that wednesday. we did that. i came to the podium. heard that out. from man, january 1 through wednesday the 3rd, the national security adviser, brett mcguirk speak with their counter parts for that statement. senior pentagon officialings were securing support from partners. the president's final approval in that statement happened shortly thereafter as you know issued on january 3. also on january 3, a principal's meeting on haiti. neither secretary austin or general brown attended. they were represented by deputies. that's not uncommon that a principal may not be able to attend. >> thank you for the detail on that. more broadly, why should we believe anything that this administration tells us about anything ever again? >> i think we all recognize and i think the pentagon has been very, very honest with themselves about the challenge to credibility by what has transpired here and by what -- how hard it w

this is nsc coordinator for strategic communications, also known as spokesman john kirby following theiers in the middle east. let's listen. >> we also wish a complete recovery for all those wounded in this attack. they are receiving and will continue to receive the very best medical care that the military can provide. second, these troops were conducting a vital mission in the region aimed at helping us work with partners to counter isis. even as the defense department gathers more information about the attack, that mission must and will continue. third, the counterisis mission is separate and distinct, indeed it's been longstanding and unrelated to our efforts to support israel and prevent a wider conflict in the region. we do not seek another war. we do not seek to escalate, but we will absolutely do what is required to protect ourselves, to continue that mission and to respond appropriately to these attacks. i know the first set of questions i'm going to get, well, what does that look like? what's appropriate? and what response options is the president considering? i hope you can u

just now moments away from the white house press briefing with press secretary karine jean-pierre, and nsc spokesman john kirby. you heard kayleigh saying the first questions ought to be about that show, that stunt with hunter biden and republicans needed to step up. 9:00 p.m. eastern along with donald trump, that's what's at 9:00 p.m. eastern, the town hall. now "america reports". >> who bribed hunter biden to be here today. that's my first question. i think that hunter biden should be arrested right here, right now and go straight to jail. >> the witness being afraid to come in front of the committee, it's interesting. he's here. doesn't seem to be too afraid. >> the rule is -- >> those are your words. >> he was issued two lawful subpoenas, the chair recognize miss green from georgia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. excuse me, hunter, apparently you are afraid of my words. >> sandra: whoa is right. fireworks on capitol hill after the president's son crashed that house oversight contempt hearing just a short time ago, taking a seat before leaving just minutes later. house republicans ripping

given his work on the nsc. at the end of the obama administration he went into private practice and in private practice he willingly agreed to do work for chinese communist controlled entities, like hauwei. his nomination hearing for his current role as general counsel of the d&i i asked him about that representation and whether he could have turned it down within his firm. he said he didn't know. i suppose he never sought to find out. i guess he wasn't interested in knowing whether it was suitable at fancy law firms do to decline work for chinese communist controlled entities. i suspect very much that it was just fine to turn down work for big tobacco companies, oil companies or other companies that are disfavored by the democratic party. but radio silence for chinese communists controlled or affiliated companies. despite his work for hauwei he has been in a very sensitive role at the office of the director of national intelligence. president biden wants to put him in charge of legal ruling and that could affe