Well, the unanimous call of 212 House Democrats has been answered by our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries. [cheers and applause] leader jeffries has answered our call but the majoritys nominee is disconnected, disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide and it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People and he has got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle just this week as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that me
One day soon we will bring back the animal videos. I will see you up in new york tomorrow. See you done. Bret good evening i am bret baier. Coming to you life from inside the u. S. Capital just down the hall from the house chamber. The house essentially frozen and searching for a speaker. The process begins tonight and it has taken on new urgency following the weekend. Strikes against israel. We are waiting for a meeting of House Republicans scheduled to begin it right around now as to begin to vet the two major candidates for the top political post in the chamber. There could be surprises, including from the man who was just removed from the post. The pressure to settle on a speaker quickly has increased exponentially because without a Speaker Congress ability to help israel is greatly reduced. We will talk about all of that as this program proceeds. First, the latest from the middle east. The death toll is estimated at more than 1600 on both sides at this hour and that includes at le
Mesothelial not well send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt in washington. Thank you so much for joining morning us today. We begin with a developing story on capitol hill. The senate says, it will take up the 95 of foreign aid package on tuesday day. That was just passed by House Lawmakers just hours ago and a special session on this saturday package includes billions and military aid for ukraine, israel, and taiwan as well as billions for humanitarian aid. We have reporters covering reaction from washington to ukraine and jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox Live On capitol hill. So lauren, how did this get pushed through . And what does it mean for Speaker Johnsons job . Yeah. There are a lot of questions about what this means for Speaker Johnsons future after this vote today, despite the overwhelming bipartisan support for this series of sap elemental bills, what you s
republicans here s what i think that for the sake of the institution and having some semblance of order and organization yes, democrats will step up and help mike johnson and doug. how do you think this is going to land with voters? we see president trump on foreign present, trump on the campaign trail today voters in both camps feel very strongly about aid for ukraine and& for israel, foreign policy generally not a determining factor in the presidential race, but how do you think this? huge series of aid packages is going to impact presidential politics? what we ve seen is that this is not just about what s happening in the house republican conference. david cameron came to washington, boris johnson, and come to washington. both urging support for ukraine, having been to poland at the polish economic forum twice in the past two years, it s a very palpable real thing in poland? and i think that s one of the things that republicans learned. that doesn t mean that it s a voting iss
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