york city getting ready for the ball to drop at midnight tomorrow night. they have got the ball all ready the new crystals are all installed. and we are ready to kick off friday on the couch for fox & friends. good morning. nice he so you guys. griff: i think kesha has a great year. she had a new song this year. joe: i ll take your word for it. griff: we don t know if she is performing in times square i follow it a little bit but not closely. joey: that song is a little bit of a control for me. ahtfter right around when i lost my legs and learning how to walk. first year i would be walking just fine. and then timber! timber? so that song has some sent mental and a little bit of post-traumatic relevance in my life. katie: you might be over i it by now. griff: the producers might know. they know everything on this show. they are pretty darn good. indicate k5eu9 they claim they didn t know. allegedly they didn t know. griff: there was some news. katie: there is
risk. good evening from studio b in new orleans. site of tonight s national day of racial healing town hall, which i will be hosting tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern along with chris hayes and trymaine lee. i ll tell you much more about that a little later. we begin tonight with the real life confluence of a toxic stew of election denial, extremism, and political violence. the type of nightmare scenario that is all too real in america. police in new mexico arrested failed republican legislative candidate solomon pena, who they say orchestrated a string of shootings targeting democratic officials in the state. last november, pena lost to his democratic opponent in a landslide, by nearly 50 points. but claimed he really lost because of so-called fraud. apparently he s both an election denier and a sore loser. after the election, a very stable pena wrote on twitter, i dissent. i am the maga king. he later posted a photo of himself in maga gear, noting much like donald trump, he n
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i m paula newton ahead right here on cnn newsroom. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. 15 ballot votes later, and kevin mccarthy is finally the new speaker of the house. when you look at all the drama and of course the historical background of this long battle. and new details on the group of murder investigation in idaho. look at the painstaking hunt that finally led the suspects to capture. plus, cnn s andy scholes joins us here live on the set to discuss damar hamlin s remarkable recovery and what he said to his buffalo bills team. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it took 15 ballots and an evening of high drama, but kevin mccarthy finally secured enough votes to become speaker of the house. never in modern times has
will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the january 6th, 2024 that s a pretty i don t know if i would bet for him to last a year? i take that that in the opposite. i think i probably would, yes. given the fact that, in an hour, we are going to have the 14th vote, i mean i m not a betting lady but have a good weekend, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are now just one hour away from the house of representatives coming back to the session at 10 pm eastern, this evening, to potentially end this now historically an embarrassing of the house. after four days, and 13 failed rounds of voting, republican leader kevin mccarthy has finally managed to move the needle, bringing all but six of his detractors to his side. mccarthy needs just two more opponents if that happens, he could win this thing he s already made some very good progress. we will come back tonight. i believe to finish this once and for all. but if he can t no
bitterness and fury. the extreme maga republicans in congress have chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division. it s a bill that will cut your cost of living and reduce inflation. take time to get inflation back to normal levels. i will accomplish what i said i would do, a more humane policy based on family yoonfication. don t come don t leave your town or city or community. rich: border encounters up 33% from a year ago. inflation up more than 7%, stock market down nearly $7 trillion. julie: that s as americans are reeling and the president is taking a break vacationing in the caribbean. the white house isn t completely vacant. we have peter doocy there. 2/3 majority of americans in a recent fox news poll say 2022 was a bad year. and that just does not compute with the folks at the white house. we have this photo that the white house posted that shows a huge stack of bills president biden signed to close out the year. the text accompanying those