middle of his third season with the bills. he is considered one of the game s star safeties. as i told you, guys, we are praying for him. we want to bring in our friend trey clevis here, found there. i ve been waiting to talk to you all night. what is your reaction to this breaking news that is coming o out? lawrence, thanks for having me on. let me had a couple of things right off the top. the bills are one of the biggest families in the entire nfl. for people who know what it s like to live in buffalo, i know several of their players. it s an incredibly tight knit team. i thought that will cain was just saying and i was sending out this tweet. lawrence meant to me is what has were presented what s so great about sports. this damar hamlin charity has raised right now $1.2 million. the initial goal was $2500 to provide toys for children in the pittsburgh area where hamlin grew up. here s something crazy, lawrence. over 47,000 people have donated to the charity. almost all o
in a century. history going on here. welcome to another hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: missed you. happy new year. dana: i missed you. are you glad to be back? bill: with you absolutely. i m bill hemmer. happy new year at home. the house is getting ready to end the 117th congress. the senate will do the same later this morning. the new house could convene in about two hours, 12 noon with a vote for speaker expected to begin around 1:00 eastern time. dana: five republicans have said they oppose mccarthy for speaker but can only afford to lose four votes. until the house elects a speaker it s frozen unable to swear in members or vote on any legislation. as of noon, everyone becomes representative elect including scott perry of pennsylvania. one of those republicans not sold on voting for mccarthy. i start evidence the negotiation with leader mccarthy back in the summer said status quo can t continue. everyone knows washington is broken. let s tal
And more in some cases. But whatever i can do to help with regard to speaker. Im also leading biden by a lot. If i wasnt i wouldnt have trials like this. Thank you very much. How is melania, mr. President . You are going through a lot. Bill there you go, last question about the former first lady, right . Martha we were talking as he came out. I hope someone asks him about the speaker question because his name gets getting floated for that. I would say based on the comments he made they should take him off that list. He is focused on running for president. 40 to 50 points ahead. I dont know why anybody wants to run into the buzz saw of Speaker Of The House. Not a productive place to be at the moment. He kind of brushed that idea off. Bill martha maccallum, bill hemmer. Andy mccarthy joins us now. Former u. S. District attorney. You wrote this week with trump already found guilty his new york fraud trial begins. You say the Boll Show Vick Block of the Democratic Party is having its Fanta
have the emotional reunions as 24 hostages, including 13 israelis, ten thai nationals, and one filipino, have been released as part of a temporary truce between hamas and israel. and more hostages could be set free at any moment. we re going to take a closer look at who s been released, and at the 49 palestinians that were also released as part of the steel. holding out hope. i ll talk to a man waiting to find out if his cousin and his cousins wife will be among the next group of hostages released by hamas. why he wants his loved ones to know this morning. and later, no holiday for donald trump s legal woes. the doj s thanksgiving day court filing spelling out just how dangerous trump s rhetoric can be, and why it s critical a gag order remain in place for the twice impeached, quadruple indicted, wonder of ex president. all of that and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you all, i m katie phang. we begin today s coverage with the shaky and temporary truce betwe
kat. i could probably open for brian. brian: that hurts. bret: thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the house has just in the past few minutes approved a $14 billion plus stand alone israel aid package. just happening there on the floor. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is on capitol hill tonight with the very latest. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. this was the first big legislative and political task for the new house speaker mike johnson. and i will tell you that he passed this today in somewhat of a bipartisan fashion because this vote wound up being 226 to 196. they lost two republicans that we were expecting marjorie taylor greene and thomas massie. but they gained a whopping 12 democrats at the final moments of this vote. that is surprising, bret, because there was quite some serious intense whipping going on on the democratic side. not only from leadership, but also the white house. that came after the senate major