of the state of california has received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheering] [applause] alright here s how the vote finally broke down. mccarthy with 216, hakeem jeffries got 212. and six voted present which help mccarthy clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed for the majority. usa too. in the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. hooks ultimately the past several days were about negotiations. mccarthy agreed to a range of things. from only one lawmaker needed to propose a new speaker be put in place, to voting on term limits. in a speech on the house floor he shared his vision for uniting the legislative body. my father always told me, it s not how you start, it is how you finish. the hard work begins for it may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. no he doesn t ever giv
it s 1:00 out in pacific time. [laughter] i m eric shawn, fox news live. arthel: hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. the numbers are stunning. this week alone deputies rescued nearly 80 migrants from a tractor tractor-trailer in texas. the texas department of public safety says it seized more than 300 million lethal doses of fentanyl. texas governor greg abbott says his operation lone star has caught more than 300,000 illegal immigrants, and those are just snapshots of a much bigger picture. griff jenkins is life at the border live at the border in eagle pass with the latest on this. griff? reporter: hey, arthel,ed good afternoon. and you put it correctly, it is stunning numbers just a week boo this first fig call year of 202. there s no signs of it slowing down, and make no mistake, this is a humanitarian crisis. take a look at the video we re going to show you now. just a couple of hours ago when i was talking with you and eric, it is three migrants from nicaragua cr
went to d.c. to get some answers, and what happened when i spoke to dems on the hill may surprise you. and jackie. the artist formerly known as kanye west has everyone talking about his interview with tucker. he s not holding back on his faith and the bullying happening in hollywood right now to silence him and conservatives. but first, backlash building tonight over president biden s end of the word world rhetoric about putin using nuclear weapons after he ran from reporters who asked about it. he made these comments off camera earlier this week. quote: think about it, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. he went on to say he is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical and nuclear weapons. then yesterday he went after putin again, this time over high gas prices in an a awkward speech about the economy. let me start off with two words, made in america. [cheers and applause] made in america. that s n
president told us of the classified documents and his corvette, man. all locked safely in a garage. special counsel to the president finding additional docs thursday night he went to biden s wilmington home. with the corvette. and said quote because i have security clearance i went to wilmington thursday evening providing the documents the president s personal counsel on wednesday to the justice department while i was transferring it to the d.o.j., officials who accompanied me five additional pages, markings were discovered among the material with it for a total of six pages. don t worry, the president is so very serious about classified documents, the white house making sure that you know that. the press secretary saying at least 28 times between wednesday and friday. watch. he said he takes classified documents and information seriously. he takes classified documents very seriously. he takes materials seriously. he takes classified documents and information very seriously
arthel neville but the president is spending the weekend at his delaware home. but it won t be easy to get away from the firestorm of criticism in the nation s capitol. the announcement comes just days after turning general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of those files. meantime house republicans say they will launch their own search for answers. there is a reason we have skiffs secure compartmentalized information facility. there is a reason for it in those documents are supposed to be in a skiff. they are never supposed to leave secure custody. your garage shall commence under lock and key as the president indicated you are never supposed to have classified information like that. eric: how about this situation? lucas thomason live at the white house with the very latest and they are. hey eric, let s go back to what president biden told our own peter doocy on thursday. he said some classified material had been discovered in that g