0 >> dana: there you go. it is bill hemmer's birthday and so glad -- as ainsley would say we're so glad you were born and so glad to work with you. you have a huge group of family and friends. feeling good on your birthday? >> bill: actually, yes. >> dana: look at that smile. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: the first face-to-face meeting between an american president and china's communist leader since covid. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the president's meeting with leader xi comes as a possible invasion of taiwan is looming large. biden said on numerous occasions that the u.s. military would defend taiwan in the event of an attack by china. you know that's not our policy. who wants to tell him? maybe he will figure it out. the president in his remarks, though, still said he believes there should not be concerns about a new cold war between the u.s. and china and does not think there is any imminent attempt by china to invade taiwan. and he points to the recent elections in the united states as proof that america has a strong standing in world affairs. >> president biden: i think the united states is better prepared than any country in the world economically and politically to deal with the changing circumstances around the world. direct and straight forward and do i think he is willing to compromise on various issues? yes, i think he understands that. i think the election held in the united states still leaves a little bit uncertain. has sent a very strong message around the world that the united states is ready to play. >> harris: following the president's remarks there, former secretary of state mike pompeo told fox news it is important that the president convey a very strong message to his chinese counterpart and he is not sure that was accomplished. >> i hope he didn't leave an impression of weakness in the mind of xi very capable in that meeting. he started with the comment that we haven't changed our policy with respect to one china yet we know president biden has made statements in direct contradiction of what he just said. he said xi understands him. i couldn't tell you what our taiwan policy is today and that's incredibly important. >> harris: and former senior advisor to president trump kellyanne conway is standing by to go in "focus." we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy. peter, we are having breaking news right now with the university of virginia. i think both of our reporter and guest know about this following a campus shooting. a news conference now. >> at the scene university police encountered several victims of gunshot wounds. the shootings occurred on a bus full of students returning from a field trip. three of the victims did not survive. they were chandler, second year from virginia beach, virginia. davis, a third year student from richville, south carolina and desean perry, all three members of the football team. who other students were wounded and being treated for injuries at the uva medical center. one is in good condition, one in critical condition. in order to protect their provivacy we are not releasing their names at this moments. the families of all victims notified and the university is providing any and every available assistance. i have spoken with four of the families and i spoke directly to the student who was in good condition. law enforcement, including university police, local law enforcement agencies and virginia state police continue their search for the suspect and will not stop until he is found. they have, however, lifted the shelter in place order following an exhaustive building by building search of grounds and are confident that the suspect has left the area. classes and all extracurricular activities are canceled for today including the men's basketball game scheduled for this evening. we do not yet have a full understanding of the motive and circumstances surrounding these events, police are investigating as we speak. we will continue to keep the community notified of developments via our emergency alert system and community-wide emails. i'm grateful to law enforcement for their response and to our community for facilitating their work with what i realize has been a long shelter in place order. this is an unimaginablely sad day for our community. the entire university community is grieving this morning. my heart is broken for the victims and their families and for all those who knew and loved them and they are all in my prayers. as i've said before, when i see our students, i see my own kids. i cannot imagine anything worse for a parent than to lose a child. please know we will do everything we can to honor their lives and will come together soon as a community to mourn these losses. in the meantime, if you need help, especially our students, please don't hesitate to reach out to the resources listed in the email i sent early this morning. please reach out to each other shoulder even if virtually.and this is an extraordinarily difficult day for our community and we need to comfort and support each other and those closest to the victims of this horrendous shooting. thank you and now i would like to turn it over to the chief. >> president ryan, i thank you all for impelling in here this afternoon and giving us the opportunity to tell what happened over the last several hours and perhaps even answer some of your questions. i will say from the very beginning there will be questions that we'll have no answers to. not because i don't want to tell you, it is because we just don't know. i hope you will be patient with that and trust that when we do know, you will know. this has been an incredibly long evening and very tragic circumstances for our university community, for the city of charlottesville and the county and the commonwealth. especially tragic for the small number of families who we have had to break some really bad news to and some of you tried to reach out throughout the evening and we didn't take your calls. i apologize for that. you might have got hung up on in the midst of chaos. so i apologize for that as well. when this call came out just after 10:00 last night about 10:16 and we knew the circumstances we immediately initiated an emergency alert. everyone with uva email address and cell phone number gets that alert and that alert is sent out by our office of emergency management and updated every 15 minutes. as much information as we can provide. since 10:16 up until 30 minutes ago our students were sheltered where they were. more than 500 of them were sheltered in buildings throughout grounds studying in libraries, classrooms, and other places. they've cooperated with the directive that they received and we're very grateful for that as well. fortunately we've been able to lift that alert. as president ryan mentioned, we -- thanks to the partnership of our city of charlottesville partners, county and virginia state police, federal partners, atf and f.b.i. and u.s. marshall service and a host of officers to searched the scene and processed the scene for evidence and secure our grounds while we did the exhaustive search to the very best of our abilities. we're confident the person responsible for this tragedy is not on our grounds. make no mistake about it we'll find him. wherever he is and bring the resources of every federal law enforcement agency in the nation who has the capacity and ability to look for him beyond our boundaries. if he is in the commonwealth of virginia the people standing behind me will engage in that search as well. the bodies of devon and desean at president ryan indicated were found inside a charter bus. where it had been for the day enjoying a school activity, having a meal together, and coming back to our grounds. someone amongst them chose to do an act of violence. we found them dead inside that bus. for hours we had to process a crime scene. i don't have to tell you how difficult it is for a family to not know, to see email chatter and social media and we did our best to try to keep up with that, to let people know what we knew and what we were trying to do and hopefully now that we've caught up we can continue to share that message to the many families across this world that have young people here at our university to let them know that their young people are okay and that there will be people here for many days to take care of them. this strong law enforcement presence that you've probably seen on our grounds for the last several hours represented by the agencies behind me will stay here until we're reasonably comfortable that this person is in custody. in addition to our local state and federal partners, the talents and skills of our colleagues in the medical center who have been with us throughout this journey and will remain with us for the two students that we have there seeking treatment, we deeply appreciate their efforts as well. we've secured arrest warrants for mr. jones. charged him with three counts of second degree murder and charged him with three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony. those facts and circumstances were reviewed by a judicial officer and the charges that were proffered. there comes a point in time those charges need to be amended and certain facts and circumstances arise that will cause us to do that we'll do it. but through the advice and counsel of our commonwealth attorney to the extent federal law applies. the office of the united states states attorney for the western district. i want to give you a description of mr. jones. he is described as a black male. he was born november 19th, 1999. when he was last seen on our grounds, he was wearing a burgundy jacket, blue jeans, and red shoes. we believe he is driving a black s.u.v. bearing virginia registration t as in tango, w as in whiskey, x as in x-ray, 3580. twx3580. we implore anyone who is on our highways and buy ways who should see that vehicle bearing that tag to call 911 immediately and report his whereabouts and try to keep that vehicle in sight. we believe perhaps that mr. jones remains armed and he is to be considered dangerous and treated accordingly. i want to share some information with you because i want to be transparent with you. i want you to know what i know to the extent i can share that information this afternoon. mr. jones came to the attention of the university of virginia's threat assessment team in the fall of 2022. in fact, in september of 2022 our office of student affairs reported to the multidisciplinary threat assessment team that mr. jones they received information that mr. jones had made a comment about possessing a gun to a person that was unaffiliated with the university. a third party. that reporting person, again unaffiliated with the university, to the best of our knowledge never saw the gun. the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. the office of student affairs followed up with the reporting person and made efforts to contact mr. jones. in fact, they followed up with mr. jones' roommate, who did not report seeing the presence of a weapon. pardon me. thank you, captain. we just received information the suspect is in custody. thank god. breathe a sigh of relief. mr. jones also had come to the attention of our threat assessment team because he was involved in a hazing investigation of some sort. i don't know the facts and circumstances of that investigation. i know it was eventually closed due to witnesses that would not cooperate with the process. but through the course of the threat assessment team's investigation we learned of a prior criminal incident voflgd a concealed weapon violation in 2021. what's interesting about that case, he is required at the student to report that and he never did and so the university has taken appropriate administrative charges through the university's judiciary council and the matter is still pending adjudication. i thought it was important to let you know that he had been called to our attention and to answer any questions you might have about that. i want you to hear that from me, not hear it from someone else. so i will stop there and we'll take any questions that you might have. >> a couple questions. can you discuss what and where the field trip was going and the affiliation of people on that bus and on that field trip? and if the suspect was on that trip and was on the bus? >> thank you for the question. the information we have at this time is that the field trip was associated with a class and the individuals that have been named were part of that trip to see a play. that is to see a play associated with the class. it was a class field trip. >> was the suspect in that class? >> i do not have those details. >> do you know what class it was and what play it was? >> i do not. we're seeking all of that information as you can imagine. the students are quite traumatized by the tragic events. >> was the play in washington, d.c.? >> i don't have the location. we're finalizing that. >> were the guys football players? >> that play was in washington, d.c. >> i have not been shared that information yet and it will come a point in time when we will share that information. i'm sure now is not the most appropriate time. [inaudible question] >> we're not releasing information about the -- patients who are still in the hospital at this time. [inaudible question]. >> i can't speak for student affairs. the university police department had no contact with this. the university police department is one of many people on the multidisciplinary threat assessment team and provide some of the background with respect to individuals to come before that team. to my knowledge we did not have any contact with mr. jones with regard to that incident. my understanding ballpark about 25. [[inaudible question]. >> don't know how he got away or how it was he fled the scene. i don't have information with respect to how he was apprehended. [inaudible question]. >> we're in the process of doing that now. not at this time. [inaudible question]. >> third victim was transported to the medical center and died there. >> do you know mr. jones's status. was he still affiliated with the football team? >> he was still a student but no longer on the football team and hadn't been on the team for over a year. [inaudible question]. >> two other victims were students. [inaudible question] >> i don't know to what extent they had a relationship with him. i don't know that for sure. [inaudible question] >> you personally have been involved with so many tragedies that happened. if you could just talk if you've been able to process those feelings at all. what the community has been through for the past decade or so and how this impacts all of that. >> i don't know that i've had time to process that to the extent that you speak of. i can tell you the people standing behind me now -- it speaks for itself how we get through these things. these agencies that are represented here were on these grounds very quickly. i will try to do better next time. that's all i have for right now. >> we can't do this alone and we obviously haven't. >> found on campus or off campus. >> i can tell you to the best of my knowledge he was not found on campus. i cannot tell you where he was located or where he was taken into custody or where he is located now. >> state police take him into custody? >> we'll have more information. we'll get back to you. we'll have more information as we have it. thank you very much. >> there you have it. >> harris: as they wrap up, there was a long pause in the middle of that as one of the police chief's team came over and handed him the information that the suspect had been caught and you saw him praying there. just taking more than a moment and then he explained that he was praying. the suspect christopher jones junior, 22 years old at the university of virginia has been caught. he is in custody. we don't know all of the details of that arrest. what we did learn were just more details about the students who perished. the three football players and what we did learn was more about the scene. we learned that from the president of the university. but also the idea that their threat assessment team with some detail there had known about this suspect prior because of things that had happened since he was a freshman in 2018. and was on the football team, although i can find no records of him ever playing, actually playing a game. the suspect was on the football team as a freshman. they knew he had had issues. i have so many more questions than maybe were those reporters of the scene would have started. for instance, if your assessment team knew about this individual what were you doing to keep track of him? what was the ongoing conversation if a threat assessment team was aware of him and he was still on campus? so we'll get those answers hopefully in coming days. they will work the case. but critically important today is the manhunt is over as of less than five minutes ago and the suspect is in custody. we'll update you this hour as we get more news. we'll move on now. let's go to the white house. actually with peter doocy, who is not at the white house. he is traveling with the president in indonesia. the president today met with china's leader xi for more than three hours. so many questions about what they might have talked about. peter, i know you will get into it. my mention of the origin of covid or fentanyl pouring in from china into the united states? >> no, harris. the closest they came to talk about covid or the pandemic is mention of health security that came in the read-out and president biden did make a glancing reference to the next pandemic in prepared remarks. that was it. it was his first chance since the pandemic started to talk to xi in person about the origins of covid and as far as we know based on accounts from the chinese, from the u.s., from white house officials and the president himself, it did not happen. we do know a lot about this meeting, though, even though that didn't come up. we know that even though china has been playing by their own rules for decades, president biden is walking away from this one-on-one with xi thinking that the chinese are going to be open to compromise. >> president biden: we are going to compete vigorously. i'm looking to manage this competition responsibly and i want to make sure that every country abides by the international rules of the road. >> and cobbling together when he said on camera and what white house officials are telling us president biden raised objections to china's aggressive behavior towards taiwan. president biden has previously said the u.s. would help taiwan defend against a chinese invasion. he is walking away from this meeting tonight thinking that is a ways off. >> president biden: we were candid and clear with one another across the board. i do not think there is any imminent attempt on the part of china to invade taiwan. >> the only thing we know for sure coming out of this meeting will be a trip by secretary of state blinken to china at some point. it is unclear whether u.s. interests will be advanced by this sit-down. >> president biden: i'm not suggesting this is kumbaya and everybody is going to go away with everything in agreement. but i do not believe there is a need for concern of as we raise the legitimate question a new cold war. >> no cold war but no concrete agreements out of this meeting, either. harris. >> harris: kumbaya, who would want that with a communist nation or at least its leadership? thank you very much. the president's overseas trip included trademark gaffes which he is prone to do. he confused cambodia with columbia not once, but twice. cambodia is the host nation of the summit that he attended over the weekend. >> president biden: we want to thank the prime minister of columbia's leadership. >> first of all going to cairo for the environmental efforts and then heading over to columbia -- i mean cambodia. i'm thinking western hemisphere. >> harris: the president said democrats showing in the mid-term elections made him stronger all over the world heading into today's meeting with xi. biden was mostly on the sidelines during the campaign season as we all know but speaker of the house nancy pelosi and senator elizabeth warren piled on credit anyway to biden. >> president biden has been a great president for our country. he has accomplished so much. he has put money in people's pockets, vaccines in their arms, children back to school, people back to work for starters. >> this victory belongs to joe biden. it belongs to joe biden and the democrats who got out there and fought for working people. the president's leadership put us in a position every candidate up and down the ballot to talk about what democrats fight for and what we deliver on. >> harris: keep that in your head for a second. kellyanne conway fox news contributor former senior counselor to president trump. let's ask her what is your reaction? >> the last thing joe biden should be mentioning abroad were the past elections. he is inviting world leaders to do to him what his democratic party candidates did to him, ignore him. he endorsed very few candidates overtly and got involved in very few primaries. one that sticks out to me is the congressional seat in oregon where kurt shrader was the incumbent. we flipped the seat republican with a latina republican may i note. his record on these domestic elections was non-existent to terrible. sure, one thing they'll keep the senate and maybe have a 50/50 senate but not a mandate for him. the best thing that happened to republicans and worse to democrats out of last tuesday is joe biden and kamala harris will run for president and vice president again. the party is stuck with them. the other thing is i would not call attention to the u.s. elections if i were president biden because we can't even count the votes in arizona on time. keeping president xi of china is shaking and scared of the u.s. when we're asking people to verify their own signatures and giving them a couple days whether than asking to show an i.d. it told us election night who won and lost in georgia. these are serious times. i worked for a president and vice president who took china to task. and one of the greatest accomplishments of the trump/pence administration is the way they challenged china. on december 1, 2018, president trump took on president xi over fentanyl. and we saw action. it was not the number one killer of 18 to 44-year-olds the way it is now. we presided over the first decline in overdose deaths in 30 years. did president biden ask him about the uighurs the way president trump did at the u.n. with a special event about religious liberty? and the origins of covid, joe biden promised to shut down the virus. forget that. that's the lie. we have every right to know where and how it started. to know how to prep in the future and hold china accountable. >> harris: a couple of the issues are what i asked peter doocy about. his answer was no, he might have come a little close to covid but not about the origins and all of that. looking forward right now, what you mean with those 19 outstanding house call, those races that we still don't know is what a lot of people are telling me that they are frustrated about. they know the votes eventually will get counted. they always do. after everything the nation has been to when i run into voters and i talk to many of them through voters voices, there is a concern that we don't have election day information the way we should. the way that florida and other states may have. we'll move on from there but i totally understand what you are saying and you are listening to people, too. you are also hearing what people are saying. the balance of power in the house is still undecided as i just said. you can't call it with 19 races still out. today house republicans kick off their candidate forum for leadership position. for the next congress. it's the first formal event in what is expected to be a week-long party-wide discussion of republicans performance in the mid-terms. house republicans inching toward the majority. we still think they'll get there. they flipped a valuable house seat in oregon. the winner of that seat we'll hear from her now. let's watch. >> i think people were tired and frustrated of the high crime that we're seeing in our blue states. they were frustrated with the inflation rising 8 1/2% in oregon. not being able to keep up with wages. and the education process. people were frustrated with their kids in school being locked down for too long. they wanted to speak up and want work done. >> harris: what worked for republicans in oregon? >> you just saw it. she proves again that messengers are as important as message. candidate quality manner. she is a high quality candidate. their first time candidates and i hope they run again. but it is not enough to not beat bide in. we failed to get more independents to vote republican. usually in the mid-terms from 2006 to 2018 the party out of power carried independents by double digits and over a majority. this time democrats won independents 49-47. if you were a pro-choice independent you were more motivated to vote. you don't have the same motivators for crime and economy. looking forward to 2024. a tough senate map for democrats. a tough senate map for republicans this time. more importantly, harris, joe biden and kamala harris can't tell joe biden and kamala harris please don't campaign with us. they will need to be out there for their own campaigns. so they are stuck -- the democrats ar >> harris: the next time we get together we'll talk about georgia. we're inching our way closer to the runoff. that race matters, too. you mentioned a 50/50 possibility for republicans. that's how you get there and it would be 51 for democrats if you don't get there. with herschel walker. we'll get into that. great to see you. thank you very much for getting us started. a little bit later i'll be joined by one of the house -- brand-new house republicans, congressman elect john james of michigan's 10th congressional district. we'll get into everything with him. a violent weekend in new york city after democrat governor kathy hochul's victory. the madness continues. one person dead, three others injured in two separate shootings in an upscale chelsea neighborhood. just days earlier a man raped and robbed a woman jogging in that same area. also in chelsea police said they busted a man with 20,000 rainbow pilled. a judge let what man back onto the streets without bail. crime is a huge issue in the new york governor's race. it was. republican mike lawler unseated the dccc chair maloney in new york. >> governor hochul should look at the results and recognize that voters are not only dissatisfied, but they want change. she has a responsibility. i have said many times if the state of new york refuses to act, then the federal government needs to intervene. this is outrageous. government's primary responsibility is to insure the public safety. >> harris: a new op-ed argues in voting for governor new yorkers were clear they want a safer city but not panicked enough to vote for a republican. that's fair but democrats and their enablers are responding with gibberish. democrats should focus on cutting crimes. instead settling on a different solution. the problem isn't crime but that the public knows too much about crime. i mean, that's slightly ignorant. jason rantz, seattle ktth radio host. really? the public knows too much so they don't know how to vote because they're overeducated on crime? >> or we just don't understand the actual data. that's the other thing. we've been told how many times that we are just wrong. there is not a crime surge. every once in a while you get the lame talking about. it is the blue cities that are driving all of this. i think unfortunately what we are going to end up having is not just from governor hochul but from the democrat party, i think they will ignore the results of these elections, these races and what they will end up doing is excuse why they lost in new york and why they lost somewhere else report to no red wave and take it as a significant push towards even more of their deadly policies. >> harris: this is why it's so important we continue to show the news because you can't overeducate anybody. i don't know how they ignore this. chicago. in chicago police released terrifying surveillance video of an armed man following a woman into a building and attacking her before stealing her car. violent weekend in the windy city where at least five people were killed, 20 wounded in shootings across the city and it has been going on and on and on like this. people had a chance to change it. so jason, the question becomes why didn't they? >> i don't know. that's the honest answer. we talk about this every single week. people understand what's going on in their own communities. depending where it is we're talking about. maybe in chicago and new york, seattle there are so many people who are blinded by their own ideology they are unwilling to acknowledge the policies that they promote are the reasons why we're seeing what we're seeing. they convince themselves it is not actually happening. on top of that as much as you and i talk about this and fox news talks about it, you go to the local media, they aren't talking about this in the way we are. they are con e not connecting dots to policy but a transactional story. when you look at the national outlets they're not talking about this at all. i do think there is, to your point, nothing wrong with giving people more information. i don't think a lot of people are getting access to this more information that you and i are talking about. >> harris:s you are talking several sirens go by while we're sitting off time square. a reality not perception. people will have to make choices going forward. much like crime. i don't think it will stop. school choice and parents rights a big motivator at the polls. head of the american federation for children tweeted his organization helped defeat 40 legislators. corey deangelis is part of that group and has been in "focus." >> there was a school choice wave during the mid-terms. for far too long in k-12 education the only special interests represented the employees in the system. a new special interests. the kids have their own unions called parents. 2022 in the mid-terms was the year of the parent and it should make us all happy. >> harris: a new op-ed argues education freedom was a big winner in tuesday's elections. victories were so big and widely distributed. radicals are turning education into a process of deranging children. they are setting aside basic reading and math in order to indoctrinate children in fringe gender ideology, race and essentialism. >> i love that these races were so effective because unlike some of the other races when you are running for school board you have to talk about the issues. you have to talk about what is going on on the ground in ways that parents will realize is -- it is hard to spin some of these issues and for the voters themselves, you know, when it comes to crime not everyone is a victim of crime and maybe think about it differently. if you are a parent you know what's going on. your kids are the victim every day they go into the classroom and they are taking that all home and witnessing. we saw a lot of it happen over covid because of the remote learning situation and parents got more involved and decided you aren't messing with my kids. >> harris: we had voter voices live audience for the first time on election night and we did see some split ticket voting on this issue. like straight up democrat but some were willing to look across the aisle and say wait a minute, we want change. i thought that was an interesting -- i don't know how widespread it was across the country. the fact that it would happen in states like pennsylvania and new york where some of our local participants that night had come from. i do want to get your take on this quickly. critics are really going after the biden administration today for keeping the covid public health emergency in place through at least mid-january. we learned just a couple of days ago about this over the weekend. here is some twitter reaction. one user wrote they will never give up their emergency powers willingly. oldest trick in the government book. and this one, this is not about public health, this is about blue states keeping their mass mail-in ballots for 2024. jason. >> 100%. i think they like the situation. they see it as politically advantageous even when you are expecting the red wave to come oh, not so much. not within the new system they created. i don't think they will be quick to let it go. i think the longer we sit back and accept it, the longer it is going to last. if there is not going to be significant pushback and political consequences why would they stop? so far there haven't been political consequences to all of these mandates. all of the emergency powers being held onto for as long as they have. again, look at the blue states and where they went. they didn't get redder. some got a little more purple but for the most part they stayed blue. these are the places where we have these mandates in place for the longest and have the emergency powers. washington just gave up its emergency powers. i think people accept them. i think there is a difference between like and accept. i think on the left there is this thinking that we are doing it for the greater good. that they believe that wearing a mask while on a jog alone outside is protecting people. they have leaned into that. now they look at these policies and say to themselves it is me being a hero and i'm helping everybody out. >> harris: that's complicated and frustrated by the facts, too. how can you have a national report card that shows such a large learning gap and smaller numbers of illnesses and most importantly in that age group smaller numbers of deaths for little ones but the learning, the non-benefits, the things that hurt them were vastly brought on by the lockdowns. how can people not see that? governors fast to oppose those pandemic lockdowns and reopen their states were able to win seats. if you take a look at this, these are some big margins in the mid-terms by republicans. look at this. they increased their margin of victory over their 2019 performances ron desantis of florida, kristi noem of south carolina. colorado, georgia, south carolina all winning by an average of 18.1 percentage points. the same five governors won by an average 3.7 percent -- in 2018. i apologize. the script was backwards. you can see on your screen how big of a victory gain it was for them. >> i think generally speaking we are talking about people who trust their own leaders on this. if you lived in florida, you realize what had happened and you didn't have all the mandates and you said this was the right decision because nothing bad has happened in relationship to the world is ending as a result of the policies. let's continue to support it. then you go to some blue states. colorado is an example of an exception to the rule. they have been more accepting and they argue to themselves and i'm surrounded by these people and i know exactly how they think. they are saying it would have been much worse here had we not adopted these policies. i think they have convinced themselves of that. >> harris: jason rantz, thank you and thanks to the audience for getting through the numbers that didn't match. the screen was right. always great to have you in "focus." thank you. the mid-term elections fell short of what republicans were hoping for obviously. now the party is talking about its path going forward. we're still waiting on 19 uncalled house races. they need six in order to take power. it seems that they are perched to do that. we'll report the news as it happens. what members are saying voters want from them. and it looks like the gop again inching to take majority in the house. there is big intrigue over who will be the next speaker. will it be current minority leader kevin mccarthy? 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