tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
President biden Opening Statements being read in the trial of our former president. Liberal District Attorney alvin] brought this case against donald trump on those charges. Trump faces 34 counts related to payments made to sex film worker Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 president ial election. All of it has people asking why now . District attorney alvin bragg, why now . Today a hearing on trumps 175 million new york civil fraud bond, remember the money he had to come up with in order to go forward with an appeal in that case. No victims in the case. You know how it goes. Tomorrow a hearing on trumps new york gag order is set. Thursday u. S. Supreme Court Arguments on Whether Trump can claim immunity on the case in georgia. Critics are claiming all these antitrump efforts are politics. We are dealing with a case that is really a House Of Cards built on quicksand. This is a case that should have never been brought and would never have been brought if it wasnt that the defendant was do
[national anthem] [national anthem] will we begin with a fox news alert. The house voting the pass the 95 billion. Foreign aid package yesterday. House Speaker Mike Johnson dodging his ouster vote for now despite the bill already receiving backlash from both sides of the aisle. Pete Madeleine Rivera is live in washington with the details. Reporter House Speaker johnson is calling the world a tinder box that needs american leadership. The 95 billion aid package if includes money for israel, ukraine and the indopacific. It passed with rare bipartisan support. But funding for ukraine, about 60 billion, was the most contentious in the bill. A red line for hardline conservatives and the reason for a monthslong stalemate. The vote on ukraine was 311112 with all a democrats in support and more than half of ore palin opposed. Republicans opposed. House democrats began waving the ukrainian flag on the floor causing the chair to call for decorum. Kentucky senator rand paul slammed the move calli
news alert. far left democrat squad lost a member. scandal-plagued congressman jamaal bowman has cost the new york democratic primary a seat. the left s divide over the israel/hamas war played big at the ballot box in what some call a litmus test for the party. a more moderate democrat then stepped in and took bowman s place. they will retain potentially that seat in the primary at least that s what will happen. we don t know what s happening as we move forward. we ll cover it all. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. jamaal bowman lost to george latimer. we already knew going into the day that it was a wide margin. look how it ended up. the pro-israel advocacy group aipac put in some big money. they wanted bowman out and bowman gave them plenty of help. in september he pulled a house building fire alarm and pleaded guilty, was scensure for it and paid a fine. against a house resolution condemning hamas terrorists and they were voting. he called reports of
former president trump howley holding the rally last night as pulling show him leading in some key swing states. hovering down at camp david as the two men take different approaches to preparing for this week s cnn presidential debate. welcome to fox news live. i am mikey manuel. mentioning his no taxes on tips policy. you spoke with the former president yesterday. how does he seem five days out from that debate. he seems pretty confident. ready to get up on the debate stage. i asked what is strategy is because it is much different than what president biden is doing as he hunkered down at camp david. the best strategy is being out on the campaign trail. watch. president biden is out at camp david. you are on the campaign trail. what is your strategy? this is the best strategy. we have all of these people screaming questions. do you think he will be good on the stage? he will be fine and then he will forget it about an hour after preparing. we will see what happens.