scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is a special edition of your world. the first of 2023. more on the tax hikes in just a moment. first to chad pergram where the leadership drama is unfolding. chad? edward, it s been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but there s five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. kevin doesn t have the votes. there s more than five people. you ll see that as we go into the election on january 3. there was 36 people that voted against kevin mccarthy on the conference vote. mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. they demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speaker s election in the middle of the congress. he agreed. some members still have reservations. rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. you think the package has moved any votes t
days from today. we re seeing key developments here in the final stretch shaking up the battleground states with power in the senate hanging in the balance. we ll watch day-by-day as we get closer. new hour starts right now. dana is off today. back tomorrow. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. sandra: cruised through the first hour. i m sandra smith. election day is now just five weeks away. democrats are losing ground in one key state, pennsylvania, where the senate race is getting tighter there. democrat john fetterman watching his lead slip away as dr. oz gains momentum and closing the gap. it dropped from 11 points in mid-summer to 4.3 in the latest real clear politics average. as that race gets tighter, both sides arguing who is tougher on crime. i m sick of oz talking about john fetterman and crime. the truth. john gave a second chance to those who deserved it. john fetterman has the courage to do what s right. dr. oz doesn t know a thing about crime. they endo
but most staff think it is. so who s right? we ll be hearing from the ceos of microsoft and linkedin. a new era for britain. that is how the new finance minister chancellor of the exchequer kwasi kwarteng is billing his plan for boosting the uk economy. mr kwarteng will be announcing the full details in the coming hours. but we already know the direction of travel. cut taxes, rip up regulations, and encourage more investment by the private sector. the government s already confirmed massive support for households and businesses to limit soaring energy bills this winter to be paid for by more borrowing. but some critics have questioned the affordability of the plan. and others argue lower taxes will do little to help the poorest in society. coletta smith reports. we will sit in here. i will brin: we will sit in here. i will bring it we will sit in here. i will bring it over we will sit in here. i will bring it over for - we will sit in here. i will bring it over for yo
do you think that the government i m not suggesting federal, state or city, just overall, are you not being well served for the protection of children and your child in particular? i can say this, 57,000 people died in 2020 from fentanyl overdoses and i don t know what 21 and 22. we re just eight months in. so no, i don t think the government at any level has done enough. i think that the current administration has got to stand up and take notice. i think the state of iowa has got to take notice. how many more people have to die before somebody takes it serious? this is worse than the 1970s heroin epidemic. i m calling everyone to action, everybody in the community stand up. the fentanyl pills are ridiculous. 40% of those pills kill people. they re lethal. so i think everybody, the community, the government, the state, the governor, we all need to stand up in solidarity and handle this. dana: i hear you. we grieve with you and pray for your strength. hold onto each othe
because beijing itself believes that there needs to be reunification between taiwan and china, and that taiwan is a part of course of the chinese nation. so it is a meeting, which is high in symbolism, but it also has had, as a result, some more significant moments. we have seen military manoeuvres, both by the chinese and american vessels being sent into the region as well. low level, in terms of that military operation, and it is not engagement, it is just operations in and around the seeds of around taiwan. but nonetheless, it has ratcheted up nonetheless, it has ratcheted up further the very difficult relations that currently exist between beijing and washington. it has been an awkward scenario for the white house because they do not have control over nancy pelosi, there were some effort to persuade her not to make this journey, effort to persuade her not to make thisjourney, but effort to persuade her not to make this journey, but it has been made and they will stand sup