212 is our call for a speaker who will secure liberty, justice and opportunity for everyone. Well, the unanimous call of 212 House Democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker The Gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries. [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected, disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide, and it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. Hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against health care for children for veterans and even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me. It was raised on the other side of the aisle just this week as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in t
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In a few hours President Biden will address the nation in only his secondever Oval Office Address. The goal, convince the American People that it will be important to spend 100 billion of their tax dollars, majority of which would help israel and ukraine. Bottom line, sources tell cnn, that President Biden will not only try to make an argument about the immorality what Russias Vladimir Putin and the Terrorist Group Hamas have done but that the costs of u. S. Inaction of not supporting israel and ukraine would be harmful to u. S. National security. President biden arrived back in the u. S. Early this morning after roughly seven hours on the ground in tel aviv. President biden says he pressed israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there on israels plans for the next phase of the war and worked to secure propositions from the israelis for humanitarian aid for the innocents in gaza. President biden will also speak about trying to bolster the Ukraine
Thats what u. S. Bank is for. Huge relief. Yeah. Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friend and colleague ana cabrera for a second hour of Special Coverage. Were following two major stories this morning. And right now the fate of the House Of Representatives is up for grabs with another vote to decide the next speaker of the house. Beginning any moment now, we have live pictures of the house floor we want to show you, where jim jordan is trying to convince a group of holdouts to cast their vote for him after his attempts to secure the speakership yesterday ended in failure. 20 republicans voted for someone else. This is all happening as President Biden is wrapping up his visit to israel to show the United States support among israels war with hamas. Were also keeping an eye on beirut, lebanon, where a scene of protests and some violence is playing out as propalestinian protesters gather outside the u. S. Embassy in the lebanese capital
While testifying on president bidens 2025 budget request fbi director Christopher Wray warned of several elevated threats to Us National Security including foreign terrorism, drug cartels and ran somewhere attacks. He also advocated congress to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which monitors foreign nationals overseas and is set to expire on april 19th. The House Appropriations Committee Hearing is just under 2 hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will be in order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to the first fiscal year 2025 hearing, or the subcommittee on commerce, justice, science, and related agencies. Before i start, i want to thank chairwoman granger for her years of dedication to this committee, and formerly, chairman call becoming the new chairman of the committee. We look forward to continuing to work with both of them. I will begi
blindly accept their accusation against a member of another branch of government. expulsion vote for a backbench congressman as the front runners fraud trial continues. i did everything, right and they indicted me. tonight, two tiered ethics in the republican party. then, what happened when the adult son of the disgraced president of the witness stand. plus, what on earth is happening in the republican primary? what they re trying to say with this is, that in your boots, you have heels. no. that s what they re trying to say. they re just standard off the rack. i ll tell you? as a bombardment continues and evacuations of foreign nationals begins, what we know about the untold devastation in gaza, when all in starts, right now. good evening from from new york. i m chris hayes. a vote to expel freshman congressman george santos just failed in the house of representatives. it did not come close to meeting the constitutionally required two thirds threshold to exp