Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
The subcommittee on oversight will come to order. Without objection the meeting record will remain open. Members may submit any materials they wish to be included. Thank you Ranking Member torres and members of the subcommittee for joining us in todays oversight hearing. Today we are focused on identifying the newer security years that continue to persist following debris in the United States capital on january 6, 2021. There are still many Unanswered Questions for former Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats spent millions of dollars on the select committee to investigate january 6 but the committee failed to investigate the Real Security failures. Today we are joined by chief son who was chief of the United States Capitol Police on that day. The Democrats Select Committee never invited him to testify during one of their prime time hearing despite him being the chief of police on january 6. Perhaps that is because the his test may not have fit their narrative. For months House Democrats
The subcommittee on oversight will come to order. Without objection the meeting record will remain open. Members may submit any materials they wish to be included. Thank you Ranking Member torres and members of the subcommittee for joining us in todays oversight hearing. Today we are focused on identifying the newer security years that continue to persist following debris in the United States capital on january 6, 2021. There are still many Unanswered Questions for former Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats spent millions of dollars on the select committee to investigate january 6 but the committee failed to investigate the Real Security failures. Today we are joined by chief son who was chief of the United States Capitol Police on that day. The Democrats Select Committee never invited him to testify during one of their prime time hearing despite him being the chief of police on january 6. Perhaps that is because the his test may not have fit their narrative. For months House Democrats
Democrats, everybody. Americans. Everything will be okay. President trump when one part of america hurts we all hurt. Arm in arm we will strive. We will endure, and we will emerge stronger than ever before. Clayton lets get to the fox news alert now President Trump and first lady set to board marine one at any moment ahead of their second visit to texas well bring you that live whenen that happens. Abby this as he puts pressure on congress for nearly 8 billion as a down payment for relief in texas. Corporate pete peter doocy will be live later today. Good morning. T reporter that almost 8 billion the white house is asking for is considered emergency funding theyre calling it a down payment that would be used for continued life saving missions, help for housing for people without blood insurance and the loans to Small Businesses whose bottom lines are facted by the high water. These details were sent out late last night by the white house budget director to the speaker of the house paul
Andrew, i start with you. This is a bit interesting. This is a play out of reagans handbook. Importantly as you heard mark cuban say, he is keeping the deal going here. He is keeping it alive and he is working, believe it or not with the democrats. What do you say about that . I think it was a smart thing for him to do. First of all the republicans in congress have not really worked with him as they should. They really have failed to produce. So i think he wants to get things done. He needs to take care of people in texas. He needs to take care of people in florida. I think he struck a deal with chuck and pelosi. I think it was the right thing for him to do. Trish who thought it could be done, right, ford . I know. Everybody is like, what . Trish by the way, there is a lot of people that arent too happy about it. I would like for you to weigh, ford. Representative marcia blackburn, we spoke to her yesterday. She was pretty annoyed. She felt the harvey stuff should be kept totally separ