Matter with their refusal to even consider a short term funding bill known as a continuing resolution. Its a measure which could realistically be brought to the floor of congress over the past few days before funding runs out next saturday at midnight. Instead, republican holdouts want to consider each appropriations bill separately which is a time consuming and extensive process that would take more than a week. Ahead of the call with republicans yesterday afternoon, speaker Kevin Mccarthy expressed a bit of hope, telling reporters he things when it gets down to crunch time the holdouts will, quote, hopefully move off. A few hours later, however, this meant, delusion a congressman garrett grace, a mccarthy ally, you will remember him, he was instrumental in the Debt Ceiling Negotiations of few months back. He had tougher words. He compared the holdouts to arsonists who burned their own houses down than want credit for putting the fire out, he added, quote, anyone who says we are going
So its official. Kevin mccarthy giving the green light. The House Speaker telling americans. The move gives republicans more power for how hunter biden leveraged his dads prant and whether or not President Biden was involved. The white house saying it is extreme politics saying there is no evidence of wrong doing by President Biden. There is no evidence of wrong doing by President Biden because President Biden didnt do anything wrong. The purpose of what theyre doing is a politically motivated far right extreme series of attacks on the president and his family that are not rooted in the truth. Democrats and the media ready to defend the president. Oh my god, really . Oh my gosh, it is devastating. Oh, dont do it. Please dont do it. There is zero evidence of any malfeasance on the part of president joe biden. There is no evidence so theyre using the word inquiry. No direct evidence. Theyre Going Forward with an Impeachment Inquiry based on lies. The craziest people on the back benchs ar
emissions, but makes no direct reference to phasing out fossil fuels, which had been in an earlier draft. the eu is threatening to walk out. a representative of small island states says it would be like signing their death certificate. our climate editor, justin rowlatt, has the latest. when the new draft was released, there was confusion. negotiators and journalists scrolled through the pages. the realisation slowly dawning that the agreement had changed. a landmark deal to get rid of the fossil fuels responsible for climate change had seemed within reach. now it appeared to be being snatched away. eamon ryan is one of the eu s lead climate negotiators. if the text doesn t change, will you walk away from the deal? this text will not be acceptable. would you walk away? if this doesn t change, it will not be accepted as a text. so what went wrong? a group of oil producing nations led by saudi arabia had openly opposed the deal. they said there wasn t enough to compensate for t
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. i m paula newton, and we have breaking coverage this hour. up first, israel s temporary truce with hamas and the expected release of hostages held in gaza, now delayed. israel says that process will not start before friday. the update came just hours before humanitarian pause in fighting and the initial release of 50 women and children hostages was expected to begin. both u.s. and israeli officials point to what they say are logistical details for the delay, well one israeli official says they haven t received the names of the first hostages to be freed. ahead of the expected truth, israeli forces continue ground and air operations wednesday, striking parts of northeastern and central gaza. palestinians say areas further south were also hit. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu expressed confidence that the deal would soon go into effect, and he made clear the war against hamas is far from over. t
developing. biden s white house calling the situation at the border a challenge at a big problem but still not calling it a crisis. this is as the administration officials blame the trump team for what is happening there. now biden s homeland security chief s warning we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border when we have in just the last 20 years. john: pretty shocking statement. were going to speak with texas senator john cornyn and arizona s attorney general who is leading efforts to sue the biden administration over its immigration policy. so-called public charge. we begin with casey stegall live at the southern border in alamo, texas. casey, what s the situation? john, sandra, good to see you. the border patrol agent chief for this very sector which is the rio grande valley of south texas, one sector alone covers and encompasses some 277 miles of the entire southern border. over the last couple days, he says his agents have arrested almost