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
mccarthy talking to his agenda moving forward, listing some of the things he would like to do. he talked about addressing the border crisis first. he also has talked about investing in the origins of covid. investigating hunter biden and whether his business dealings involved his father and what exactly were the business dealings with china? those kinds of things. so charlie, are those things the american public voted on? that s what they want from these lawmakers and do they really care about what happened over the last week? is that important to see or is the big picture jennifer them? guy: i was like most about not paying attention to this nearly as closely as those of us in this business do. but the big picture i think, it was going to be tougher kevin mccarthy whether he got this done on monday or got it done on friday. it may be the one thing i might agree with nancy pelosi on his you definitely need a psychiatrist if you are going to be the republican leader with a
pooh were at home, they were going to work every day and putting themselves at risk in some instances in doing that. these people are committed. they ve been providing for the american people. 300 million plus people every day. we couldn t be prouder of what they ve done. they re committed to continuing to do that. we need government as a partner to succeed. i have to tell you, jeff, i agree with you 100%. we ll talk to you again. thanks for your expertise. let s go to the white house. the briefing is underway. thanks, jen. good to be with you today. i just at the top wanted to make a couple of points about of context on our current economic situation. i m happy to take questions that you have. so four quick points. first is the context on our
won t have the same amount of deaths, given delta was circulating, we ll have more hospitalizations in the day ahead. charles: thanks, doctor. a new report of immigrants in the united states and failing to report to ice. so where are they now? chad wolf is coming up. first, bill melugin is at the border with more. bill? charles, four sex offenders arrested in just a span of 48 hours here in the rgv and human smuggling bust you ll have to see to believe. those stories and more after the break. ur type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help. oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! oh, oh, oh ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.
now officials appear to have trouble tracking them. fox news correspondent bill melugin is in la jolla, texas with the very latest. bill? charles, good afternoon. the numbers are stunning and likely to crank up the criticism of the biden administration and their catch and release policies. so as we can pull up video that we shot here of migrants arriving and smiling and waving to cameras. in march when the border crisis first exploded, the biden administration started to release migrants with an ntr, a notice to report. that means to turn yourself in within 60 days. we have new dhs data that shows how few of the migrants did that. pull this graphic up. brand new from dhs. what the numbers show is between march and august, dhs released 104,000 illegals in the country with ntrs but about 50,000 of