House and Senate Republicans will select their leadership for the new Congress today after a midterm drubbing.
\n\nThe United States has moved military aircraft from an airbase in the United Kingdom amid threats from Iran.
\n\nA U.S. official confirmed to NBC News that several military aircraft aircraft had left RAF Mildenhall as the security posture there had increased.
\n\nThey were operating under “enhanced force protection measures,” the official said. They would not speculate on the exact nature of the threat that appears to have led to ramped up security.
\n\nDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this morning that the effort to impeach him by an outgoing Republican congressman is nothing but a “political spectacle.”
\n\n“It’s a farce, and it’s a stunt and everybody knows it,” Hegseth said during a press conference at the Pentagon.
\n\nHegseth said the effort sends a dangerous message to U.S. enemies around the world. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., reintroduced articles of impeachment yesterday over the war with Iran and other military actions that were ordered by President Donald Trump.
\n\nHegseth likened the effort to Congress’ two failed efforts to impeach Trump during his first term — first over a phone call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, and…
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