Zblnchs happening now, the race is on to find a new House Speaker after republican Rebels Dethrone Kevin Mccarthy. The chamber paralyzed and in total disarray until lawmakers unite around leader. One major priority in serious jeopardy right now, desperately needed military aid for ukraine. Will the house fund the fight against putins invasion or will kyivs counteroffensive face another setback . Also, former President Trump is lashing out once again on this the third day of his civil fraud trial in new york, but the states Attorney General isnt backing down, insisting she wont be bullied and that quote, The Donald Trump show is over. Her words. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Our top story tonight, House Republicans scrambling right now to find a new speaker after the historic removal of Kevin Mccarthy. At least two serious contenders have emerged but for now, all House Business is frozen until lawmake
Johnsons here and boy, do we have some questions . The lead starts right now urgent action on the hill as Speaker Johnson finds a way to allow votes on aid to israel and taiwan and ukraine but its johnsons a forward that has his rightward flank in an uproar i dont know how much longer are members are going to tolerate the republican speaker . For that, we elected is it all just talk just johnson need democrats to be his lifeline. Ill ask the speaker himself here on the lead, plus more drama im on the senate, sayyed and Impeachment Trials underway democrats are trying to save Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but republicans, well, theyve got their own plans and a brand new filing. Justin from the new york Hush Money Case a line of questioning that the prosecution may take if donald trump makes good on his pledge and takes the stand welcome to the lead on jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead and just 15 minutes or so, im going to be join live by the Speake
in trafalgar square. i reckon this year s is better. feels a bit sort of plumper around the waist, which seems to be the more classic, conical christmas tree shape. anyway, that s about as much analysis as anyone wants on my christmas tree. the problem is, though, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, his visits are getting earlier every year. so you missed him last week. so, he s not here to hear that praise, which he ll be desperate to hear, no doubt. yeah. anyway, let s see what we ve got in store on this episode of newscast. hello, it s adam in the studio. and it s chris in the studio. and keeping us company this week are ayesha hazarika from times radio and former labour adviser. hello. hello, hello. do you have a christmas tree? i do. is it girthy? it s plump and full of girth! glad to hear. and also here is will waldon, who s former director of communications for borisjohnson. hello again. hello, everyone. hi, adam? and also when boris was mayor of london. so did you ever h
have a cease-fire that serves hamas s goals to rearm, and attack us again and perpetrate another massacre. anyone calling for a cease-fire is serving the pro-hamas position. that means that they could get away with what they did and do it again and again. there was a cease-fire on october 6th. hamas broke it on october 7th and will be a cease-fire against once hamas terrorist threat is eliminated and once we get back the hostages. dana: one of the things antony blinken was asked about. i don t know details on it. apparently in the meeting earlier blinken brought up some concerns expressed about they said extremists in the west bank attacking palestinians there. and he said that he was reassured that the israeli government is on top of that. is there any more you can say on that? i can say that we are on top of that as the secretary said. it is a marginal phenomenon. we will address it. when we do something wrong on the israeli side we conduct inquiries and address the iss
i ll see you back here tomorrow for more supreme court decisions and post debate analysis. chris jansing picks up your coverage right now from atlanta. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart, and large here at georgia tech, the site of pretty intense georgia tech matchups, but all the media assembled here waiting for matchup with pressure about as intense as anything we ve seen in a presidential debate. in just a few hours donald trump and joe biden will go head to head for the first time in four years. tonight s face-off marks a critical opportunity for both candidates to shake-up this stubbornly static race between two men in an all-out war for a second white house term. and tonight tonight they mark the most important battle. new polling from just the past 24 hours continues to show a race with no clear leader. poll after poll after poll within the margin of error, so tonight the opportunity to break out not