hill now. fox news among the journalists spotting the interim republican speaker of the house moments ago patrick mchenry. he sent the entire house home late yesterday following that historic vote to strip kevin mccarthy from the speakership. so what is mchenry doing there today? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. eight republicans pulled off an epic power move in washington, d.c. it was led by long-time mccarthy critic florida representative matt gaetz. 208 democrats voted against mccarthy as well. all together with those eight booting congressman kevin mccarthy from the speaker seat. and right now it leaves a void that won t be filled likely until next week at the very earliest when lawmakers are set to return. and with this recent media sighting of the interim speaker mchenry, could there be changes coming? well, whenever the timing is, until they choose a new speaker, the business is at a full stop in the house. today s new york post cover with thi
and more in some cases. but whatever i can do to help with regard to speaker. i m also leading biden by a lot. if i wasn t i wouldn t have trials like this. thank you very much. how is melania, mr. president? you are going through a lot. bill: there you go, last question about the former first lady, right? martha: we were talking as he came out. i hope someone asks him about the speaker question because his name gets getting floated for that. i would say based on the comments he made they should take him off that list. he is focused on running for president. 40 to 50 points ahead. i don t know why anybody wants to run into the buzz saw of speaker of the house. not a productive place to be at the moment. he kind of brushed that idea off. bill: martha maccallum, bill hemmer. andy mccarthy joins us now. former u.s. district attorney. you wrote this week with trump already found guilty his new york fraud trial begins. you say the boll show vick block of the democratic p
free text l0 to three-to-one, three-to-one today, i hanako montgomery in tokyo and this jensen: it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over dad. durham: here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! ha-ha! turner: we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it.
prosecutors, including that secret recording made of trump just before the 2016 election. as anybody would say, that s the strongest possible evidence. there certainly was evidence of knowledge by the president of a payoff to the playboy playmate. we begin this morning with the president threatening to strip the security clearance of half a dozen former officials. never mind some of them don t even have clearance anymore. that is not stopping the white house from stthe policy of paybk to vocal critics. i want to get to how it breaks down. the president is said to still be considering this move. while none of his people he s targeting are still in the government, current officials are certainly taking notice. right now, these are the men and women on the list. former cia director john brennan. former director of national intelligence james clapper. former cia director michael hayden.
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we re not doing enough. look at these five people. here s the thing, john. there is a whole cottage industry of distraction folks. this is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. i m not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. the robert mueller, paul manafort, special counsel, jeff sessions fire series is one of them. there is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. i had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. one consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, leadership starts at the top. i asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration? nobody, we don t know who the point person is, we don t know what their strategy is. this is somebody who is at a high level over there. this seemed to be a way of t