Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Shooting of chechen immigrant we first brought you last night. We will add advance the story tonight. Take you to the epicenter of the border crisis where some migrants wait hours before ever encountering Border Patrol agents. And additional women accuse Sean Diddy Combs of sexual violence. Bret but, first, the push for third party voters is on. Libertarians are getting a real taste of the 2024 president ial campaign this weekend. Presumptive republican nominee former President Donald Trump addresses the National Connection in d. C. Tomorrow. Today independent candidate robert f. Kennedy jr. Tried to convince the audience that he is a viable contender if he got the libertarian nod. R. F. K. Jr. Could quickly qualify for all ballots. Senior National Correspondent rich edson starts us off tonight. Good evening, rich. Rich hi, good evening, bret. Well, those two president ial candidates are addressing the Libertarian National convention this weekend to tr
Bidens aid request for israel and ukraine. We will preview tonights state dinner honoring australian Prime Minister anthony albanese. Washington journal starts now. Host it is the washington journal for october 25. House republicans gather at noon today. Representative mike johnson gained the votes needed to secure the position. Watch that on cspan. He has been over 20 days since the house has had a speaker. To start today, we ask you if you have seen over the past three weeks and if it has affected how you View Congress and how it operates. Tell us on our phone line. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002 is how you do that. If you want to text us and tell us your view of congress has been affected by the lack of a speaker and the election process, 202 7488003 is how you do that. You can post on facebook and on x and follow the show on instagram. A recent poll by the economist is highlighted in a recent story, looking at the view of congress in
Response ability is the safety that has killed how many people because of these assault weapons . Host lets stick to the topic of the speaker election. Caller this criminal donald trump what they do not want to denounce him. They refused january 6 subpoenas. A lot of them were in on it with that cri washington journal continues. Host joining us now, stef kight of axios to talk about the House Speaker race, what to expect today. What are rep. Johnson representative johnson chances . Guest at this point, it does seem that he has some important momentum right now after he was voted the nominee last night. We did not see as many republicans come out saying they were going to vote against him as we have seen with some other candidates. So it looks like things are going well at this point. It is early in the day. We expect a vote in the early afternoon. Johnson is wellliked in the caucus and seems to be someone who threads the needle where he is someone who is supported by the far conservati
Bret 100 percent not. Thanks. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the key prosecution witness in the criminal trial. Concluded his testimony and the prosecution rested its case today. But, before that former trump attorney and selfdescribed fixer admitted to stealing 10s of thousands of dollars from his boss company. When the defense took over, cohen was followed on the stand by one of his former legal advisers. Now, there has been a request by the defense for the judge to dismiss the case from the bench. Correspondent nate foy is outside the New York State Supreme Court again tonight, good evening, nate good evening, bret. Todd blanche requested that the judge dismiss this case on the grounds that prosecutors did not prove that trump falsified Business Records or did anything illegal to influence the 2016 president ial election. The judge reserved his decision and trump spoke about that while leaving court tonight. Hopefully the motion to dismiss this
I will do it. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, two big stories. First, challenge accepted. Former President Donald Trump says he will meet President Biden june 27th and september 10th, to debate. The insurgent president Taunting Predecessor and opponent on a video released this morning telling him to make my day, pal. The former president responding on truth social ending with lets get ready to rumble both accurate quotes by the way. President biden has agreed to two debates. President trump would like more. He has accepted three formal invitations and both men will debate on tv networks outside the nonpartisan president ial Debate Commission that had a long tradition of running three president ial debates and one Vice President ial debate every cycle. Also, we here at fox are releasing right now new fox polling indicating the race is tightening slightly among registered voters nationally while the president s support among core constituencies seems