Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their vote or wishing to vote . If not, the yeas are 57, the nays are 37. The nomination is agreed to. Is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider can considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt i ask unanimous consent that the remaining votes in this series i ask unanimous consent that the remaining votes in this series be ten minutes in length. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blunt madam president. The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt i have two requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions
congresswoman cheney is the last of the so-called impeachment ten, those are the ten house republicans who voted to impeach president trump after the insurrection. seven of them have either lost their primaries or chosen not to run for re-election. two of them won, and then there s cheney. you may remember congresswoman cheney was booted from her leadership post in the republican conference more than a year ago after trying to warn the country about the threat she believes donald trump poses to democracy. since then, she s continued to try to sound the alarm and call out her colleagues. to my republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible, there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. none if she manages to pull off a win tonight against her trump backed challenger, hater hageman, she will defy long odds. but cnn learned congresswoman cheney intends to make a speech tonight saying her battle has just begun. she started talking a
all right, this is the big news tonight. cnn projects that vocal trump critic liz cheney has lost wyoming s gop primary. we ll go straight to cnn s jeff zeleny he s, in wyoming for us. also king at the magic wall. let s go to john first. john, liz cheney losing her primary tonight. what are the numbers? showing their showing, don, look at the numbers right here, not quite 2 to 1. but harriet hageman, the trump backed challenger to liz cheney is winning, and winning convincingly. many votes ahead, about 57% of polls reporting. you see 62 to 33, or 62 to 34 if you want to round that up for liz cheney. and you can see on the map here, mostly filling in with harriet hageman s color, the salmon color, which is what we give to trump endorsed candidates. i want to make one key point, don, education is increasingly the big dividing point in american politics. and the two counties where liz cheney is leading, albany county, it is the highest percentage of college graduates in the st
laura: thanks, hannity. i ve got to go. with got some big news, apparently. i m laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. my angle in just a few moments, but we begin with a fox news alert. two big primaries tonight, wyoming, where polls have just closed and never-trumper hero liz cheney may be headed for defeat in the house g.o.p. primary grade in alaska, voters are still deciding the fate of senator lisa murkowski. fox s chief political anchor bret baier is at the big board with all the details. hey, laura, good evening. it looks like a very bad night for liz cheney in wyoming. let s start there. this house race again, primary where trump-backed candidate harriet hagemann has a big lead now, and remember, this is early vote coming in around the state. there s only 1 congressional district here. but the vote that we are seeing traditionally the trump-backed candidates have done better with the day of election day vote. she is winning with the
of elements in the aftermath of the fbi s raid on mar-a-lago as we await a hearing later this week to determine whether records related to the search, including that all-important affidavit, should could be unsealed. our legal panel is standing by life to weigh in. but we begin by focusing on our 2022 vision on alaska and wyoming. chief political anchor bret baier is back with us tonight and back at the big board with the very latest results. good evening. good evening, shannon. congresswoman liz cheney has gone down to defeat in the primary tonight. if we look at the wyoming numbers, harriet hageman, backed by president trump, former president trump, a big winner. remember, 1 congressional district in wyoming, this primary going in, hageman had 20, 30-point lead in the polls. she s going to end up tonight, by all estimates, being up about 35-40 points over the incumbent congresswoman liz cheney. it was really at the beginning of the night, the middle of the county here, ha