Jesse now you are thinking. Bret all right, thanks. Greg see you. Bret good evening from washington. Im bret baier. Another potential firestorm over Republican Leadership in the house. A second g. O. P. Lawmaker says he would cosponsor a motion to vacate the chair. In other words, get rid of Speaker Mike Johnson. This comes as the speaker tries to push an International Aid package through the chamber. Congressional correspondent Aishah Hasnie starts us off with the breaking news tonight. Good evening, aishah. Good evening to you, bret. We still dont have tests for that International Aid package. In fact, a source is telling me just now that they are still having meetings about that text. That is a very, very bad sign if the house really does intend to take votes by the end of the week. We dont know what the holdup is but Speaker Johnson today was vowing that he is not going to let any threat to oust him try to deter this. I am not resigning. House Speaker Mike Johnson defiant amid a ne
thank you so much for joining me. i m for greca whitfield we begin with this breaking news, the national hurricane center alerting moments ago that tropical storm beryl is forecast to become a dangerous major hurricane and barrel would be the first hurricane of the 2020 four season. let s get right to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. so you ve been watching this storm. what s it going to do? right? i mean, i think the key thing here is how early in the season we re seeing this storm develop in the location two, so here s a look at where barrel is located right now, that central tropical atlantic just east of the windward islands sustained winds are 65 miles per hour gusting up to 75 for those that don t may not remember 75 miles per hours, that threshold in which it becomes a hurricane. so we re only about ten miles per hour off of that forward movement to the west at 23 miles per hour. but what makes this storm interesting? we talked about how early in the season normal
do it again. we are all going to work together on this. there is one person in this country who has defeated donald trump. his name is joe biden. on friday the new york times editorial board urging president biden to drop his t reelection bid. the paper also calling donald trump a significant jeopardy to democracy. all of this as the country looks ahead to monday and the supreme court will issue the ruling on immunity. that is the same day former trump white house strategist steve bannon heads to prison after the supreme court rejected the request to delay his sentence. he will serve a four month a sentence on contempt of congress charges as his appeal proceeds. on friday the court ruled for a january 6 writer challenging an obstruction charge. that focuses on a charge that a former president trump also faces in his election interference. will this affect trump? a former investigator says likely no. we will hear why when we speak with him later this hour. we have severa
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