scott brown comes to washington. backroom deals and lack of transparency and lack of not solving problems is getting old. bret: the healthcare proposal appear to be dead. i don t see the votes for it at this time. bret: in the wake they re scrambling to salvage something. that there has to be basic things we can agree on. bret: brown s election massachusetts completely changes the political landscape in washington. we have fox team coverage with jim angle, carl cameron, james rosen and molly line. plus, shannon bream with another major game changer for the 2010 mid-term election elections issued today by the u.s. supreme court. special report starts right now. bret: the speaker of the house today officially threw dirt on the healthcare plan that was unofficially killed in tuesday s election of massachusetts republican scott brown to the senate. chief washington correspondent jim angle starts off tonight s broadcast with an obituary. reporter: this was on
can pick on and they think wall street banks ar good targets. that doesn t mean it s a bad idea. the president thinks he s targeting undue risks and the ways financial institutions got is in trouble in the first place. has he a good wing man, paul volcker, this is a responsible step. it s not mindless populism. they interpret massachusetts as people being upset about larger forces, whether government or corporations and wall street. they are looking for that fight and they are going to get it. democrats have real concerns this fall, 19 democrats in the senate alone will face re-election. barbara boxer in california, one of them facing what might be her professional public service career we should say. the president told wall street on the topic you were speaking about if they want to fight he s ready. on taxes banks, he told them we want our money back. strong rhetoric but at some point isn t it action americans are waiting for. yes. action will come as a result of fina
bret: welcome to washington, i m bret baier. this is special report. scott brown comes to washington. backroom deals and lack of transparency and lack of not solving problems is getting old. bret: the healthcare proposal appear to be dead. i don t see the votes for it at this time. bret: in the wake they re scrambling to salvage something. that there has to be basic things we can agree on. bret: brown s election massachusetts completely changes the political landscape in washington. we have fox team coverage with jim angle, carl cameron, james rosen and molly line. plus, shannon bream with another major game changer for the 2010 mid-term election elections issued today by the u.s. supreme court. special report starts right now. bret: the speaker of the house today officially threw dirt on the healthcare plan that was unofficially killed in tuesday s election of massachusetts republican scott brown to the senate. chief washington correspondent jim angle s
this, despite billions of spending, weeks of reports of economic recovery, still the number of unemployment claims, rising last week. labor department saying thursday, that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose about 36,000. that s a seasonally adjusted 482,000. still below half a million, but still, that s a pretty good chunk, wall street economists did not expect that. more on that number in a matter of minutes here. another fox news alert now, awaiting the arrival of massachusetts new senator-elect scott brown, it is a significant day today on capitol hill. man, the spider webs in that story are going everywhere. martha: indeed they are. bill: good morning, i m bill hemmer. martha: i m martha maccallum, mr. brown is headed to capitol hill where he s expected to meet with top republicans and democrats today. bill: brown on tuesday becoming the first republican to win a senate seat in massachusetts in 40 years. david drucker, staff writing on the hill now, david,