elect a speaker since the 1850s continues to play out. he has not yet reached a deal with the senate, mccarthy remains optimistic. lawmaker reportedly even making more concessions to hard line conservatives, some say they still will not support him. sandra: we will likely know a whole lot more as the minutes go on here. we are watching it with you. some mccarthy allies are acknowledge never enough compromise for some hold-outs. warren davidson is backing mccarthy s bid but more than four never kevin lawmakers who will never vote for him. we will have more with the congressman-elect, davidson. he is in front of the camera right now, we ll get to him in just a moment. john: fox news live team coverage, martha will join us with more perspective on the speakership fight, and chad pergram kicking things off this afternoon, live from capitol hill and here we go for a 12th time. here we go again but also some changes. we indicated earlier this morning kevin mccarthy was going
the wuhan lab in china for gain of function research. but yet dr. fauci hasn t come before congress in the house of representatives. the american people deserve answers on covid-19 and speaker kevin mccarthy has given the republican majority the tools necessary to make that possible. [applause] the democrats have spent the past six years investigating a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia. now let me say this loud and clear. the republicans will also investigate a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia as well as china. the american people have a lot of questions for dr. fauci. christopher ray, merrick garland, secretary mayorkas. we cannot ask those questions until we elect our speaker. under speaker pelosi was a full-time committee to harass the previous president, to advocate for wage, social issues which the oversight committee had absolutely no jurisdiction and committee totally uninterested in the american taxpayer. in a republican
standing by. we are live from puerto rico where search and rescue operations for survivors is getting higher, basically the entire island has now power after the hurricane fiona swept over it. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in ryan riley and form charles coleman. and what do we know about the special master for the mealings and we re hours from getting it started. it will be very busy, with the brooklyn start tomorrow and the ongoing appeal whether or not the classified documents will be part of it. this is really urgent. the documents with the classified markings at the top of them, those are not donald trump s personal property, they do not belong to him, so we shouldn t need a special master and they should be going forward with the investigation. and that s what they brought to the 11th circuit. so i think we should hear relatively quickly from the appeals court about where that is going to go because they really are making sure that that is a m
the house this morning. lawmakers set to vote again in two hours. but gop leader kevin mccarthy has put up a new offer he hopes will win over a faction of his party. that has been fighting against his candidate us is. what he s giving up now and why it might hurt him with moderates. also what is president trump trump s roul roel? he s made call to holdouts asking them to vote for mccarthy. what they told him to do instead and why he s now predicting a big win today. plus the man accused of stabbing four university of idaho students is back in idaho. what new body camera footage released by police shows. and the latest on buffalo bills safety damar hamlin three days after he suffered cardiac arrest in the game against the bengals. what the bills are saying about the change in his condition. next hour, president biden will address the southern border ahead of his first trip since taking office. what his administration is doing while the supreme court wait s to reconsider
i m jose diaz-balart we begin this busy hour with breaking news. the brand new jobs report shows the u.s. economy added 261,000 jobs in october. which is higher than expected, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% from last month s 3.5%. this as the hispanic unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. the black unemployment rate remains mostly unchanged and there you see the numbers at 5.9%. it s the last jobs report before election day on tuesday with the economy and the cost of living ranking as the top issue on voters minds headed to the polls. joining us with more is business and data reporter brian chung. whatever your takeaways. i want to rehighlight again the numbers we got about an hour and a half ago. in september we had 315,000 jobs added. the new jobs for october showing 261,000 jobs added in the month. but something that caught a lot of attention was the 3.7% unemployment rate that we clocked in as of october. that was a little bit higher than the 3.5% that we g