In the faulkner focus. House republicans need 218 votes to proceed with an Impeachment Inquiry. There are 222 republicans in the house chamber. We know of at least five of them holding out. Here is what has happened with the biden family to get us to this point. Three separate gopled committees are investigating allegations that hunter biden leveraged his fathers government positions to secure big money foreign Business Deals. The key question, did president benefit . If so, by how much . Here is former arkansas governor mike huckabee. They need to continue the methodical and Ongoing Investigation of these phony companies that the biden family created. The foreign money they got. But the inquiry is one thing. They should definitely conduct it. What they need to be careful about is going ahead with a full blown Impeachment Vote because once they do that, it goes to the senate and it dies in less than five minutes. Now you have empowered biden. Harris top Oversight Democrat jamie raskin
shannon: she was a pioneer in so many ways. you reference her time out west and where she was from and it was such an interesting back drop to see her become the first female appointed to the supreme court. she often told the story about graduating from stanford and not being able to get a job. no law firm would hire her as a woman in the 50s and 60s. she struggled to make it in the legal profession. to think she came out of school, she found a roadblock to any kind of legal career and she decided to plow forward and ends up on the supreme court. it is a really fascinating, truly american story. she went out and campaigned to become a judge because she saw this is my avenue. she didn t win the first election. she did ultimately end up becoming a judge but another part of her interesting background is she was a lawmaker in arizona in the state senate. so she had a real appreciation for all of the different branches, for fighting her way into the legal profession. she had a h
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