Congress will try again today to pick a nominee for house speaker. Eight republican candidates are vying for the gavel. Can any of them make their fractured party come together. More uaw workers walk off the job in detroit a major escalation in the fight that sees no sign in ending. Newly uncovered footage of Britney Spears failed audition. And the youngest head coach in the country working alongside one of the oldest. Its tuesday, october 24 early today starts right now good morning, im phillip mena im frances rivera. We begin in the middle east. Hamas has released two more hostages from gaza two elderly israeli women are confirmed to have been handed over on the egyptian peribordert gaza still, more than 200 remain in captivity. We want to bring in Claudio Lavanga. Do we know why these two hostages were chosen to be released reporter good morning, phillip. The al qassam brigade posted a message on their telegram account saying they decided to release these two hostages for compelling
brian: looks like todd was in a rush to get out. ainsley: i m out of here. brian: okay. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. wednesday, june 26th, this is fox & friends. pro-israel democrat george latimer toppling squad member jamaal bowman in the primary. what a fractured democratic party could mean in november elections. lawrence: a blowout. the cnn presidential debate is tomorrow. we could learn who trump s vp pick is soon. we are kicking off our fox & friends exclusive series this morning, talking to the possible picks and their partners. first up, j.d. vance. what democrats do they say well, he believes this because he hates poor people. he does this because he hates black people. they can t pull that with me. i don t know anyone that s ready for that kind of scrutiny. steve: that s coming up. will cain sits down with kevin costner about his new movie and the future of america. every election somebody is going to take care of the veterans and every it s going
We will come to order. Oury, we will consider consideration of the tax cuts and jobs act. Promised, wes delivered to members a modification that we will incorporate this morning. After that, all we will walk through the modification. Members will get an opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the modification. Once that is complete, it will be open for amendment. I want to thank my fellow committee members. Include a number of their amendments in the modification in the mark. I think the market will be better for it. Process,outset of this producing this legislation has been a group effort. I want to thank all of you for your hard work. Lets talk about the modifications. These are not see changes. The core remains the same. Complaints that the walkthrough was a waste of time were misplaced. One modification of the initial mark which will benefit american is a greater expansion of the Child Tax Credit. Bring it to 2000 per child. In addition, we will lower tax rates even lower th
Carried it alive and we are pleased to be joined by former radio host and msnbc contributor Charles Sykes whose new book is called how the rights lost its mind is this a book about donald trump . Guest now, obviously he plays a major role but its really about the conservative movement, what happened to the conservative movement and how it enabled him, capitulated to him and how where did you go wrong . How do they conservative movement go from being run by William F Buckley to sean hannity . digital from Ronald Reagan to donald trump . How do we go from edmund burke to and culture . What happened to us that led up to that and this is the big question i had after the election. What just happened . What did we miss . The things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i didnt. Host was there a seminal moment . Was it years in the making . With the 2016 . Guest i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. He came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over thi
Here in miami. Thanks for having me. [inaudible conversations] please be seated. Good afternoon welcome to the 3h annual book fair. Here at the Honors College we are absolutely delighted to host for you this year. Before we get started there are organizations to think. Please give our foundations around of applause. [applause] we are so fortunate those that care about book fairs and, literacy please give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] as is customary please turn off your cell phone we will have q a at the microphone. Please be brief and concise also assigning area is to the right. Ou this is a special panel because we have one of the founders of the book fair. [applause] that is very kind of you that is very kind of you i have been doing this 31 years i have been at mcmahon for about 5000 authors and never nervous but this is the first time. [laughter] as many of you know i have not kept it a secret im involved with the film called the man who invented christmas it will be