work, host of kennedy on fox business. and katie save the world podcast. kennedy, he s whiter than the powder in greg s green room. fox news contributor tom shalu on weekends he goes out clubbing, feels that is awful. no, no, we ll try it again.agai. that s a gun in her pocket and she s glad to see you. host of luxury hunting lodges of america on fox nation.. katie, pavle. e us her arms can be usedor as chopsticks. on tnews contributor to now that i have no friends left on this panel. we get yo okay, before we get tou so some stories, it s friday, so it s time for this gregs leftovers from and that s not the first time i ve taken greg s food out of the fridge.g s foodis . yeah, it s leftovers whereread e i read the jokes we didn t use this week. now here the rules just likehese greg does it. this will be my first timehere reading these. here we go on tuesday. president biden traveled to the us islands to enjoy some holiday downtime which caused millions of americans to ask d
he was he was something, jamie raskin: he was, he was something, my son. my son. did you think about taking some time off? you know, tommy left us a note. and the note said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other, the animals, and the global poor, for me. all my love, tommy. so, he didn t have anything in there about taking some time off. and [noise] why is america such an extraordinary country? we are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity, or one ideology, or one religion. we are unified by one constitution, and one rule of law, and the values under our constitution. it is an aspiration. it s a challenge to us. the constitution shouldn t be some kind of fetish documentary. this should be the living commitment that we all have, to make democracy work in service of the common good. that is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. that is the constitution that we ve been fighting for since then. and
we should be prepared to be back here doing this same thing when that happens. because especially considering some of the things that mccarthy clearly gave away. i mean in the past they ve been able to do it with democratic help, and mccarthy in theory could do that. but it seems like they ve tried to hold his feet to fire here and say, no, what kevin mccarthy can decide to do is not put it on the floor. without getting into the specifics of all the ugly fights that are going to come, i think the point that you just made and others have made is that this is at large a vision of what we re going to see, possibly, going forward for the next two years in a very chaotic congress. and it has huge consequences. huge consequences for nation, but as we just settle on this moment, we are watching the history being made, because i believe on this 15th ballot kevin mccarthy will finally secure enough votes, whether it s through people voting present or switching votes to him to ac
and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don t know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they were pretty close to calling the vote in adjourning. they have the singular verse of people there right now. here is what will happen later tonight if they impacted elect kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house, there will be a wall and they will bring an escort committee and they will escort him into the chamber will be very ceremonial, much like bringing in the president of th united states into t
elect a speaker since the 1850s continues to play out. he has not yet reached a deal with the senate, mccarthy remains optimistic. lawmaker reportedly even making more concessions to hard line conservatives, some say they still will not support him. sandra: we will likely know a whole lot more as the minutes go on here. we are watching it with you. some mccarthy allies are acknowledge never enough compromise for some hold-outs. warren davidson is backing mccarthy s bid but more than four never kevin lawmakers who will never vote for him. we will have more with the congressman-elect, davidson. he is in front of the camera right now, we ll get to him in just a moment. john: fox news live team coverage, martha will join us with more perspective on the speakership fight, and chad pergram kicking things off this afternoon, live from capitol hill and here we go for a 12th time. here we go again but also some changes. we indicated earlier this morning kevin mccarthy was going