sandra smith. some are forced to drive to their destination instead. with 43 million americans expected to travel throughout the week, are the roads ready. bryan: jeff flock is heading down the pennsylvania turnpike as we speak. jeff, what are you seeing out there? you know, i don t think i ve ever seen a holiday travel day that s been any calmer and better than this. take a look at the pennsylvania turnpike. we are just approaching valley forge, which is appropriate, general washington spent some time there in 1777, but it s clear out here now, despite the fact that we are facing, we think, according to the aaa, at least, record travel both by car and by air. take a look at the numbers. 50 million people, they say, aaa. bigger than at any time pre-pandemic. 43 million of those as you point out by car. and you know, the numbers really seem to bear that out. if you look at the tsa checkpoint numbers, they came out this morning from the department of transportation. they sa
quickly heating up this week as republican candidates begin firing shots at one another over who is the right person to lead the party against president biden in the 2024 election. but is the gop primary already shaping up to be a two-person race before former president trump and florida governor ron desantis? or is there a dark horse candidate voters should pay closer attention to? we re going to discuss that coming up. speaker mccarthy and i have had several productive conversations. our staffs continue to meet, and they re making progress. it s crunch time. it s not easy. we re going to make sure we re not just trying to get an agreement. we re trying to get something that s worthy of the american people. i thought we made progress yesterday. i thought we d make progress again today. i want to be able to solve this problem. we begin with the debt ceiling negotiators trying to finalize a deal with six days to go before the u.s. government faces a potential default.
Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you
he is running for re-election at 80 years old and reigniting criticism with his age. a string of missteps is raising concerns. bill: at the white house it celebrated bring your child to workday. the president talked to a group of kids when one of them asked him what seemed to be a pretty simple question and the president then drew a blank. what was the last country you traveled to? president biden: the last country i traveled. what was the last one i was in? i ve been to 89 met with 89 heads of state so far. so i m trying to think where was the last place i was? it s hard to keep track. i was you are right, ireland. that s where it was. how did you know that? shannon: if they make the argument that he is ready to roll after the president was caught relying on cheat sheets during his first news conference in more than the month. the white house said it is entirely normal. bill: republicans beg to differ. democrats dismissing the criticism saying the president s r
could the trial expose, a former d.e.a. agent will join us to discuss the current fight against those cartels coming up. we found a handful of documents failed in the wrong place, i think you are going to find there s nothing there, i have no regrets. is the president confident there are no additional documents with classified markings that remain in any other additional locations? look, i can just refer you to what his team said, the search is complete. we can assume it s been completed. you should assume it s completed. the search is complete. john: well, not so much. karine jean-pierre expected to face another round of tough questioning at the white house briefing in the next hour after claiming the search for more classified documents was complete more than a week ago. but we now know that was not the case and the justice department reportedly considering searching other properties linked to the president. i m john roberts in washington. good monday to you,