senator chris murphy is coming up with a view from congress, and vice president s top economic adviser is stand by as well. plus, all of the technical glitches during his ill-fated announcement, we heard something awfully concerning regarding the kind of conservative ron desantis is. also today, eye-popping reporting on the destruction of the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and later, ukraine is on the brink of launching its counteroffensive against russia. i ll ask the ambassador what success looks like and how they hope to achieve it. so late last night a deal to raise the debt ceiling was struck between the white house and speaker kevin mccarthy. while the president was able to protect most of his priorities including medicaid, student debt relief, around funding to fight the climate crisis, he did make clear in his stand he doesn t love everything in it, and a number of democrats aren t going to like what they see either, work programs that help poor people, peo
their own extremists into saying they wouldn t do that. now, this is a big story tonight with a real twist. the president is drawing an treatment on that very important from an unlikely source. donald trump himself who is, of course, running against biden right now, running to be president again. but trump is, as politico reports, tying the entire gop in knots by pushing back on something pretty straightforward, the obviously unpopular plan to cut medicare and social security that some conservatives want. now, that s the view from a candidate, while new reporting shows that veterans in the trump administration are part of the possible push to get medicaid or health care funding slashed. now, in the house republicans have some leverage. they narrowly took the majority there. but democrats see this debate going their way. they re relying on a new magic budget word, that word is woke. call everything woke, and then try to cut its funding seems to be the strategy. housing, wo
vow to fight on. we won t give up bakhmut. we will hold on until the very last. glory to ukraine, death to the enemies. and the wagner boss in an audio message, acknowledges the ukrainians aren t budging. translator: the ukrainian army is throwing extra reserves into bakhmut and trying to hold the town with all their strengths. tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers are repelling the attacks. bloodshed increases every day. reporter: wagner mercenaries are the spearhead of the invasion force. he claims they re making progress but often lack the ammunition to advance. translator: i will say a system needs to be worked out. i hoch that this system will start functioning soon, and we will be getting ammunition regularly. reporter: the u.s. and ukraine say the attrition rate among wagner s assault groups, often made up of prisoners recruited from russian jails, is as high as 80%. but the media channel is trying to convey how wagner is helping the convicts. in this film,
to sensor his political opponents. it s now time for adam schiff to be held accountable in a court of law. we have a full detailed report. devon nunez will join us. and the plan to form a happy coalition government on capitol hill. the aoc can keep dreaming. plus a close look for the person the democrats would pefr to be the speaker of the house. hakim jefferies. later, one of you will grade yours truly live in our last call segment. you get to have the last word on the show. we begin with more drama from washington and the swamp today after two days, six ballots. kevin mccarthy has not gotten to the magic number of 218 to be speaker of the house. 20 republicans continue to oppose mccarthy. including a congress woman that will join us. today she and others voted for donalds. a rising star in the gop, strong conservative track record. cory bush, she referred to him as a prop and accused byron donalds of up holding and perpetuating white supremacy. he said his name being in the
we will hear from you live at the end of each show starting tonight. also tonight the hannity it hot seat is back. stay tuned i will go one-on-one with one lucky liberal. and stephen a. smith is going to join us with more on the injury to jamar hamilton. he and his family in our nation s prayers tonight. we begin this fox new year with a fox news alert. it s day one of the congress, how republicans are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if not careful. despite the cheering of the democrats and the media, it s not a dyer situation yet. here where we are. at this hour a contentious battle for speaker is under way. after falling short of the 2718 votes needed kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career way small group of law makers standing in the way. many are pushing for jim jordan to be the speaker of the house. jim jordan is already supporting mckargt.y. from what purpose does the gentleman from ohio ask for recognition. i rise to show support for the dif