we will bring you any updates as soon as we get them. welcome to fox news live. the senate is in session this hour to hold the key test vote on the $95 billion foreign aid package for as israel and taiwan. chad is live with more. good afternoon. most important spirit eventual passage of the bill. still dragging this out for a few days. cracks a filibuster. including ammo and air defenses. if america does not assist ukraine, putin is all too likely to succeed. it was just a week ago that all of washington waited for the text of a bipartisan border bill even though some republicans argued for border security package as a condition for overseas aid especially ukraine. speeding back up america is not strong we cannot help any of our allies. why the senate will work all for super bowl weekend. working on something critical to the country. there is a core group of gop members that still demand the border bill even though they tagged the border plan last week they are upset
hey yeah. as evan waits for his next day in court, his parents say they understand the conviction rate in russia as just about 100% so they don t have a lot of hope right now that he will be freed anytime soon, but they were given some relief when they got to physically see and speak with evan at his last pretrial detention hearing. it s even harder now to leave him there. then it was the first time trying not to think about anything. it s just very hard. that was part of a new interview evans family did with the wall street journal who employs evan, his parents say when they saw him. he appeared to be in good spirits and strong despite his tough circumstances. now just this week, u. s ambassador to russia than tracy was granted access to evan for the first time in nearly three months. we re also learning the kremlin may now be signaling they re open to the idea of exchanging evan for one of their own in a prisoner swap , but evan s parents and sister danielle, say right now
former vp seemed unconcerned he might be in possession of classified documents, only then to inexplicably instruct his lawyers to construct a search, who then probably found a few. fbi agents came to his indiana home on the night of january the 19th to retrieve documents that the former vp himself had located a few days earlier. that is, of course, with his attorneys. the chair of the house oversight committee, he said in the statement that the former vice president s transparency stands in stark contrast to biden white house staff who continue to withhold information from congress and the american people. speaking of coming over at the white house they are still not answering questions, and not, say critics, telling you, the american people, the whole story. answering questions like, what kind of documents are we talking about? are there more of them? who keeps moving them around place to place? how did they get out of the white house to begin with? and what about this quest
is that, you know, to have a congress that can t function, it is just embarrassing. we re the greatest nation in the world. how can that be? president biden calls the drama playing out on the house floor embarrassing. this morning, there s still no speaker after three more rounds of voting. we ll have the latest from capitol hill. plus, buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is still in critical condition, but the team says he s showing signs of improvement. we ll get an update on his health. and the president says he s planning a trip to the southern border amid a record number of migrants crossing into the united states. what we re learning this morning about that trip. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the house of representatives is set to vote again today on its next speaker after republicans failed to unite around a single nominee for the second straight day. after thr
and the republican party looks like an embarrassment right now. the 20 that are doing this, they have done a good job. they need to keep talking, and then they need to do what every single successful person does, you take your deal, you take your win, you take your victory lap, and let s move on, and let s get on with business. wow, rare agreement between president biden and republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. both labeling the mutiny among the house republicans as embarrassing. this morning, there is still no speaker of the house. welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, january 5th. along with joe, willie, and me we have congressional investigations reporter for the washington post , jackie alemany, sam stein, the founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes, and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. still no speaker. i feel like what we saw yesterday, and we ll talk about that and show members of congress speaking on the floor but we re beginn