harris is next. harris: the breaking news continues. right now the u.s. house of representatives has the votes to expect george santos of new york. an investigation into a scathing ethics report which includes campaign finance abuse, allegations that santos lied to get into office. the case has not been adjudicated yet. lawmakers want him to quit but he is defiant. and they have already voted twice on the same issue as they do today. do they kick out george santos? in votes in hand right now they do have the votes. let s watch the house speaker, johnson. notify the governor of the state of the new york of the action of the house. under clause 5d of rule 20 the chair announces that in light of the expulsion of the gentleman from new york, mr. santos, the whole number of the house is 434. harris: all right. making it official there from the house speaker, the expulsion of george santos, senior correspondent chad pergram watching it all on the hill. i ve been watching you
israel defense force says two additional hostages are no longer in the hands of hamas terrorists. 21-year-old mia and 40-year-old amit were released an hour ago. we re told to expect hamas to continue to free additional hostages later today. in a last-minute deal in the war, israel and the terrorists agreed to extend their cease-fire for a seventh day. we re told eight additional people are set to go free today. a number now that we know after more than 50 days in hamas control. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. this happened overnight. at least three people were killed and 11 injured after two palestinian terrorists opened fire at a bus stop inside jerusalem. police are saying two off duty soldiers and an armed civilian in the area returned fire and killed the gunmen. both are members of hamas terrorists and have past arrests for terror activity. so far nearly 100 hostages have been released and that is a blessing. more, more, more they must let them a
harris: fox news alert. only one american has been released by hamas terrorists. the white house hopes americans will be included on what we re told to expect today, a new list of people to be freed by hamas terrorists. we are in the final hours of that extended six-day cease-fire in the israeli/hamas war. i m harris falkier and you are in the faulkner focus. israel says it has the list of the hostages set to be released today and notified their families. and they will try to extend the cease-fire as long as the terrorists keep releasing at least ten hostages per day. we know that the hostage taking serial killers, hamas, have released 12 hostages, ten israelis and two foreign nationals just yesterday. so today would make the sixth time that they would move to release people. to date, 85 of the 240 hamas initially kidnapped have gone free. israeli american 4-year-old abigail edan who i mentioned moments ago, has been released from the hospital now two days after she was r
martha: excited to see the tree show up. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now on the story, this quote from the white house just moments ago, it s not the age, it s the experience. responding just a couple minutes ago to some reports of panic behind the scenes on the president s 81st birthday. a lot of people concerned and getting louder about it as it gathers momentum saying he needs to step aside, that he s too old to be president for another term. so meanwhile, there s numbers to back this up. he s just hit an all-time low in his job approval, this is an nbc poll that just came out. 57% disapproval number for president biden. for the first time in these numbers, he loses to former president trump in a hypothetical matchup. his support slipping while trump s numbers have stayed roughly the same. what is increasing are the number of people that say that they are not sure who they want to vote for. also, since october 7th, a new road block has emerged for this
the story with martha maccallum starts right now. martha: i m martha maccallum. think about this. a 3-year-old american toddler whose parents were killed in this attack has been confirmed to be among the nine americans being held by hamas terrorists. this child s parents were killed in the attack. jake sullivan said he will be speaking to the families of the americans. people are asking, why aren t we hearing more about the americans being held? we have talked to one of the families. it s a strange dynamic of all of this that they re not front and center all the time in these pictures with americans thinking about them and focused on them all the time. there s a lot going on. part of that are the protests that keep stealing the headline as the country s hot spots boil over against the white house pro israel policy. watch this. you have a whole generation of voters coming up that will be able to vote in this next election. if you don t stop this genocide now, you won t g