Breaking news from capitol hill. Any moment now House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy is expected to hold a gaggle with reporters, and we will bring that to you when it begins. This comes as two sources confirm reports the speaker will formerly endorse an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden, and as the House Returns today after a six week recess, lawmakers need to accomplish a lot before the end of the month. What more do we know about speaker mccarthys plans to endorse an Impeachment Inquiry . Well, we are standing out his Office Waiting for him to come and talk to bus this inflexion point, and the house is coming back to town with the Government Funding deadline, and the conversation of if there will be a shutdown is one i have been having with my colleagues, and this is meant to really allow mccarthy to placate some of the further right members of his conference that want to see the House Majority use their gavel to be more aggressive on the impeachment front, and impeachment doesnt pla
alarms about what his return to the white house could look like. you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. plus, abortion fwiet. the texas supreme court temporarily blocks a pregnant woman from an emergency abortion. there s no outcome here that i take home a healthy baby girl, you know. so it s hard. will the state force her to continue her pregnancy? and new charges. president biden s son hunter is indicted for the second time this year. nine new criminal counts including tax evasion and filing false returns. what would be the political impact. plus, under fire. the president s three elite universities facing backlash after their testimony at a congressional hearing on anti-semitism, and now the president of the university of pennsylvania has resigned. does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn s rules or code of conduct yes or no. if the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment, yes. conduct committing t
nobody knows what the crime is because there s no crime. nobody knows what the crime is. the d.a. didn t name the crime. they don t know what the crime is that s what the problem is it s a disgrace. this thing ought to be ended immediately. the judge ought to end it. laura: for several weeks, alvin bragg s team elicited testimony from their star witnesses, stormy daniels, michael cohen, they had virtually no relevance to proving the elements of the crime charged. given this as i said earlier, the motion for directed verdict should have been granted by any judge worth his or her salt. in other words, no reasonable jury could have found that the crime charged was committed because the evidence wasn t presented. but, that would actually require an objective jurist. but trump faced a badly conflicted one and one the left is obsessed with. with respect to judge merchan, i mean, i am like now, you know, i have like a man crush on him. he is such a great judge that it s hard t
widening war as the u.s. strikes back at iranian-linked targets after u.s. forces in the mideast come under multiple attacks. plus mr. speaker. the house finally elects a speaker. louisiana s mike johnson ending weeks of chaos. the people s house is back in business. and just hours later, the deadliest mass shooting this year where 18 were killed in lewiston, maine. the speaker s response, guns are not to blame. the problem is the human heart. it s not guns. it s not the weapon. and trail mix. president biden has a new primary challenger, minnesota congressman dean philips. i m running because america s demanding it. while former vice president mike pence drops out of the 2024 race. it s become clear to me, this is not my time. my guest this morning, florida governor and 2024 republican presidential candidate ron desantis. democratic congresswoman pramila jayapal of washington state, and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. joining me for insigh
measure. ro kiana calls it an ideological revolution on behalf of justice. which is this, is this covid relief, or some epic anti-poverty measure? when we announced the american rescue plan, we had a set of very specific goals. one to provide the resources to get shots in people s arms and support a national vaccination campaign, provide the resources to get schools open so we get parents back to work, and provide families and businesses with the relief they need to make it to the other side of this crisis. and if you look at the legislation that the president will sign tomorrow, it does all three of those thin things in a direct and aggressive way. we re going to be able to now accelerate the national vaccination campaign. we re going to be able to provide the resources finally so schools can accelerate the reopening, and we targeted the relief in this package to those who need it most. the people who need it most are people who are working families who are struggling to m