details from our west coast newsroom tonight. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. speaker pelosi s office just released that statement confirming what they called the successful surgery on 82-year-old paul pelosi and saying his doctors at san francisco general hospital expect a full recovery following the violent attack. it was 2:27 this morning when police were alerted to an incident at the pelosi home in san francisco officers apparently arriving so quickly that the assault on mr. pelosi was happening as they got if there. our officers observed ms. pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from ms. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disharmd him. took him into custody. it s not clear from the police chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer. whether the suspect brought it into the house or whether mr. pelosi had, perhaps, grabbed it for self-defense. polic
at his disposal to defend the now annexed territories. president biden responding with a stern warning of his own. mr. putin, don t misunderstand what i m saying. ukraine s president zelenskyy is now pushing for accelerated admission into nato in the wake of putin s move today. rhetorical back and forth has ratcheted the threat of expansion of the war in ukraine to a new level. retired general jack keane with analysis of the situation. jacqui heinrich with the biden administration s response but we begin tonight with correspondent trey yingst from kyiv with vladimir putin s threats and allegations. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. the war entered a new dangerous chapter today as russian president putin annexed occupied ukrainian territory. under the guise of legitimacy and the kind of pageantry needed to convince people he is winning the war. vladimir putin signs decrees making four ukrainian regions part of russia. putin was joined by the four appointed leader
series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries today. we ll come back tonight and i believe at that time we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. i think getting together and just finding the ability to how are we all going to work together? it s new for us. one, being in the majority but being in a tight majority. i think at the end of the day we re going to be more effective. more efficient. and definitely the government is going to be more accountable. the dam finally broke after mccarthy made concessions to. they will score k
looked ahead to the reign of king charles iii, we saw canons being blasted 96 times to mark the 96 years of queen elizabeth s life. we heard bells being rung and basically in cathedrals and small chapels. we saw the house of commons usually the scene of really rocks political activity. that was still in memorializing and thinking of the queen and buckingham palace we saw something else, bret. we saw a sign of things to come. we saw king charles, king charles iii approaching the royal residence for the very first time as king awrong with queen consort camilla. shark hans in the crowd much like his mother did. much like the reason why she was beloved. he also spoke to the nation for the first time on tv. and i believe we have some quotes from him right now. take a listen to that. perhaps we don t. one more time, charles continues his journey tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. the excess council will officially proclaim him king and remembrances of the queen continue as well i believe we ha
performance on wall street today. a positive jobs report was not enough to overcome worries over rapidly rising crude price prices oil prices. the dow cratered 630. down 700 at one point. the s&p 501 o5. for the week the dow gained 2 percentage points. the s&p 500 was up 1.5. the nasdaq gained three quarters of a point. let s find out what today was all about with the markets. fox business correspondent kelly o grady is in los angeles tonight with the latest. good evening, kelly. good evening to you, bret. after a strong couple of days to start off the fourth quarter earlier this week, stocks are now plummeting and driving that sell off is today s jobs report. at first glance the report is strong 263,000 jobs were added beating an expectation of 250,000. the unemployment rate also came in slightly lower than expected at 3.5%. president biden today touting the economy s performance. just look at today s jobs report. our economy created 263,000 jobs last month. that s 10