West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. Llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitianamericans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. And republican governor rick scott also reacted to trumps
for so long. Do you get the sense that hes sort of distracting from his own Policy Agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets he put
goes up from what we had before or any other candidate, anybody else besides kevin mccarthy, that is going to be significant. what we know already even though they re only about 2/3s of the way through the vote, they re going to have to go to a third ball lot. here s what will happen probably in the next 30 minutes. we expect a stasis on the house floor. what will happen is they will go through with the teller clerks, they will count the ballots and make sure everybody agrees on what the breakdown is. by rule, the house is supposed to vote yet again. what we have not seen yet in this process is a potential vote or call for a recess. we ve had that happen before. you have to go way back to 1923, with 1840s where we had multiple vehicles for a speaker. after a while, they said we need to talk this out, nominate somebody else. is there a consensus candidate out there. we have not seen that. what we could see again are renominations of what we saw
0 john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. i m martha maccallum live in our nation s capitol covering this drama that we did expect and now unfolding in a fascinating way on the house floor. the new republican majority there is in a historic battle as a handful try to block kevin mccarthy from the speaker s gavel which he has wanted a long time and worked very hard to get in the mid-terms. bret baier is standing by on set with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot fo
the reins in kansas. the question remains for how long. could he be gone in february, june, later than that? who knows. a spokeswoman tells fox news, the renominations could be considered in a timely fashion and they will not require another hearing, but they will need another committee vote before once again heading to the full senate. in topeka kansas, alicia acunas, fox news. gillian: much more ahead in the next hour. president trump says democrats are to blame forestalled immigration reform. why, he says, bipartisan meetings are not working. and from the front lines to the top brass, we ll give you a sneak preview of a brand new series that looks at how the military makes the most important decisions of the day. stick with us.
done as retaliation against the mayor for his failure to endorse christie. so maybe the target was someone else. maybe it was something else special about ft. lee. time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. why then? why then? rachel then recounted a long and nasty standoff between senate democrats in new jersey and the governor over what used to be routine renominations to the state supreme court. notably that in 2010, new jersey supreme court justice johnny wallace jr. became the first justice to seek reappointment and be refused by a new jersey governor since the current state constitution was adopted 63 years before. wallace was the court s only african-american justice. so democrats responded by rejecting two consecutive christie nominees. when associate justice, helen hoens, republican, one of christie s own, was approaching her own reappointment, senate democrats made clear they would