letter to gop lawmakers. congress has not delegated such authority to members of congress who are not committee chairman and the house has not done so under current rule. should the committee issue similar or other request in the 118th congress, we will review and respond to them in good faith. republican poised to take two chair committees next week accusing white house of obstructing their investigations and playing political gain. what we requested in 200 requests, 100% to taxpayer dollars, money being spent with covid and in afghanistan with weapons being left behind. joe biden blocked us at every turn and everyone has seen the democrats haven t provided any oversight or requested any information pertaining to misfit taxpayer dollars, we re trying to do our job and biden administration sent a signal loud and clear, we will do everything to block your oversight. carley: bit of a back and forth to end 2022, republicans take control of the house on tuesday, so biden admi
and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don t know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they were pretty close to calling the vote in adjourning. they have the singular verse of people there right now. here is what will happen later tonight if they impacted elect kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house, there will be a wall and they will bring an escort committee and they will escort him into the chamber will be very ceremonial, much like bringing in the president of th united states into t
here. now, the hard work begins. i may not know all of you, some of you are new, but i hope one thing is clear after this week: i never give up. pete: that s the truth. it happened just after midnight last night after 15 rounds of voting, the house elects california republican kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house. emily: mccarthy taking the gavel in a late night session as the gop looks to get to work. will: alexandria hoff is live in washington with more. good morning, alexandria. reporter: good morning. it took 14 failed votes flipping more than a dozen holdouts and a final tally taking place just after midnight but speaker mccarthy has the gavel and we have the 118th congress sworn in early this morning. that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter so help you god. i do. congratulations, you are now mcellroy members members of the 118th congress. reporter: it is conclusion of drama-filled four days of vo
house next week, they will hold the administration accountable on this issue. he is here in moments as is jonathan turley with his analysis. first to aishah hasnie who is live for us in washington. aishah, good afternoon. good afternoon to you, trace. as the white house continues to blame republicans in congress for not passing immigration reform, democrat congressman henry cuellar of texas tells mes that an unfair assessment since the administration has the power to change policy today if it wanted to. without due respect to the administration, i agree, we need to do immigration reform. but they can change the policy by having order at the border where they can say they did it for the venezuelans. honestly, i think the homeland security department is struggling with some of the more progressive white house staffers. i hope homeland wins this particular fight. cuellar is responding to republican criticism that there was lack of border funding in that 1.7 trillion omnibu
what parents need to know just ahead. richard: breaking tonight, the supreme court has we have fm coverage of this breaking news tonight. matt finn is on the ground in eagle pass, texas, one of the flash points from the border crisis. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy live from the north lawn with reaction to the supreme court ruling. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, rich. this means nothing has to change until february. that is when the states suing to keep title 42 in place will have their day in court. so, for at least a few more months, cbp is going to keep this extra tool to expel migrants. but nobody on either side of this debate is really celebrating this ruling. it s a relief, you know, somewhat. if the biden administration still wants to put in place a new immigration policy, the supreme court won t stop them as chief justice roberts writes his order does not prevent the federal government from taking any action with respect to that