House democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected. Disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide. And it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. And hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he
Thats what u. S. Bank is for. Huge relief. Yeah. Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friend and colleague ana cabrera for a second hour of Special Coverage. Were following two major stories this morning. And right now the fate of the House Of Representatives is up for grabs with another vote to decide the next speaker of the house. Beginning any moment now, we have live pictures of the house floor we want to show you, where jim jordan is trying to convince a group of holdouts to cast their vote for him after his attempts to secure the speakership yesterday ended in failure. 20 republicans voted for someone else. This is all happening as President Biden is wrapping up his visit to israel to show the United States support among israels war with hamas. Were also keeping an eye on beirut, lebanon, where a scene of protests and some violence is playing out as propalestinian protesters gather outside the u. S. Embassy in the lebanese capital
Dominican republi turks caicos. Weather meteorologist Charlie Meese with us what is the latest. Category 3 with 115 mileanhour wind. It is possible it will strengthen a little bit as it moves northwest at 1 to miles an hour. The problem will not be the 155 mileanhour winds when it hit puerto rico but across hispaniola and Dominican Republic. You will have tremendous flooding. They are mountainous islands. They enhance rainfall with or graphic lift. When you have 10, 20, 25 inches of rain. Catastrophic flooding going on in puerto rico, likely to extend north as the storm movers north. Hispaniola, Dominican Republic will have to deal with the same thing. Wind will be Hurricane Force there but it will be the flooding that will be a big issue as it moves farther north and west. Through the turks caicos, nine to 12foot storm surge in the lower islands, that will be a big issue right along the coast. The good news, at this point, looks like a trough off the east coast in part due to jose, ar
Cable satellite corp. 2017] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org weekly briefing, paul ryan talked about a Health Care Amendment amente at lowering remiums. The speaker good morning, everybody. Everybody is just getting off the bus right now. [laughter] the speaker this has been a very productive week in the house as we continue our efforts to repeal and replace obamacare thfment promise is just too important and the consequences of inaction are too dire for american families. That is why over the last couple of weeks, we have encouraged members from across the conference and you see them represented here today, we encouraged members to find consensus. Want to thank kevin brady and representative walden. While we have work to do to get there, we have made Real Progress. Thats why we are here today. We have come together on a new amendment that we believe will lower premiums and add protec
We continue our efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. This promise is just too important and the consequences of inaction are too dire for american families. We cannot just give up. That is why over the last couple of weeks, we have encouraged members from across the conference and you see many of them represented here today, we encouraged members to find consensus. In particular, i want to thank kevin brady and greg walden. While we have work to do to get there, we have made Real Progress this week. Thats why we are here today. We have come together on a new amendment that we believe will lower premiums and provide added protections for those getting access to care. This brings us closer to the final agreement we want to achieve. This idea was offered by gary palmer and Dave Schweikert and has been embraced by a broad swath of our conference. I would let the authors speak about it, but let me say briefly, this amendment would create a federal risk sharing program. It will lower cos