court in d. c., as part of the team but subpoenaed to former vice president mike pence, these hearings focused on whether pence must testify about his dealings with trump, around january the 6th, the lawyers for trump appeared to be at odds with the former vice, nbc news puts, it they argue pence can t testify, because of executive privilege. pence argues he s immune from testifying for legal protection for lawmakers, he says he is acting for president of the senate as part of the electoral vote count, as opposed to part of the executive branch. come on, guys get your excuse straight. , meanwhile in new york, no word from the grand jury in the stormy daniels hush money case. the jury is expected to meet again on monday, but we did hear from alvin bragg s office in the form of a letter to house republicans flatly requesting rejecting any requests for information with hush money case. one house democrat had this reaction for the republican demand. i was astonished actually
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through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave will: well done, that was beautiful. jp performing the national anthem as we welcome you live from the wildhorse saloon in nashville, tennessee for new year s eve. rachel: we will be here for a long time. pete: it is 6 a.m. eastern am eastern time, 5 am local. i haven t done the math yet. in 15 hours, 16 hours we will start ringing in the new year into 2,023. rachel: if i know pete, the parting will start sooner than that. pete: maybe even started yesterday. we hope you will join us tonight. we are hosting fox and friends weekend live from nashville. great job by jp burr and you were saying you walked a cool thing about nashville is going bar t
a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on that. you