Mitchell reports, more drama on the house floor this hour. Louisiana republican mike johnson, an Lection Denier who helped craft the objections on january 6, he is next in line, chosen last night by the republicans in a private meeting when a more experienced lawmaker, tom emmer, failed just because of Donald Trumps opposition. In the israel hamas war, back channel negotiations continue for the terror group to free more of the 200 hostages still being held. International pressure is growing on israel for humanitarian ceasefire to stop air strikes. Jordans Foreign Minister from a speech at the u. N. Will join me as well as israels government advisor. President biden hosting a state visitor. The Prime Minister of australia, a major u. S. Military and intelligence ally, with a red carpet welcome on the south lawn and a News Conference this afternoon. We are starting with israel against hamas terrorism. We are standing with ukraine against putins tyranny. Democracy can deliver. Good day, e
From virginia laid out. And achieved them in divided government which calls for some degree of give and take. So im very proud of this speaker. Very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning, win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with and extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for. The Speaker Of The House, Kevin Mccarthy. With that, i reserve the balance of my time. Gentleman from florida. Mr. Speaker, my friend from oklahoma says my colleagues and i who dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that the white house, House Democrats, and many of us on the conservative side of the Republican Caucus would argue the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to one of us at one point or another that he didnt mean and didnt intend to live up to. I dont Think Voting Against Mccarthy is chaos. I think 33 trillion i
Right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve the objects my friend from virginia laid out and achieved them in divided government. So im very proud of this speaker. Im very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning whether i win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with and im be extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for, the Speaker Of The House, Kevin Mccarthy. With that i reserve the balance of my time. [applause] the gentleman from oklahomas time is reserved. The gentleman from florida. My friend from oklahoma says my colleagues and i dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country in to chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody that we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that the white house, House Democrats and many of us reason the conservative side of the Republican Caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to all of us at one po
The transcript had been out for two months. Maybe the ambassador thought there is nothing new here. But, shazam, last week you come forward with supposed this new information and nothing different in there than what we had on the transcript. Maybe thats the reason their star witness, first witness didnt bring it up. Youre their closing witness because you overheard the president overtalking to Ambassador Sondland. I see four seconds left on the clock. You may take as long as you need. Thank you, sir. I believe that Ambassador Taylor already knew when i briefed him when i returned from vacation on the 6th. It was not news for him that the president was pressing for a Biden Investigation. I asked why he didnt share with us. Please do not interrupt the witness any further. You may answer the question. Its exactly my point. I briefed the call and when we
come back and i referred to the call and everyone is nodding. Of course, thats whats going on. Of course the president is pressing for a
that would accompany essentially what would have amounted to a mini trial where witnesses are called, where testimony is heard, where evidence is heard. that is no longer playing out in public. this is essentially moving to a closed door process, which means that none of the parties involved really have to worry about any rampant speculation, any media coverage, all of that now behind closed doors, and maybe the most essential thing, this also means witnesses who may have been scheduled to testify will no longer have to do that or be cross examined, protecting sanctity for surviving roommates we expected to be called to the stand, and this process may be further elongated. kohberger facing an arraignment hearing on monday where he s expected to enter a plea. those five charges remain and the next we ll hear is the monday court date. steve patterson, thank you for that. in florida, a lawsuit was