Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you
america s rivals? fred fleitz, ready to go, geared up and we ll be joined shortly. john: begin america reports with an indictment watch for former president trump as manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s motives are questioned by critics. john roberts in washington. happy tuesday, sandra. sandra: and john, you are warmed up yet again. sandra smith in new york city. the former president predicted he would be arrested today, but he is not expected to be arraigned until next week, the grand jury has another witness to hear from. john: the manhattan district attorney for the soft on crime approach is taking heat for what critics say is politically motivated. his office is firing back. sal wisenberg in a moment. bryan joins us live in studio. what is the latest from district attorney alvin bragg s office? the office has responded to jim jordan and house speaker kevin mccarthy s calls for bragg to testify to congress over the possible indictment of former president trump. the
Viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im max foster in london. Biancas off for the day. Just ahead on cnn newsroom. There has been another set of documents that have been discovered. Some of those documents have been classified. This is an ongoing process. He takes it seriously when it comes to classified documents. Theres no indication that santos is going to resign because he clearly has no shame. We dont need George Santos but if he wants to do the right thing, i think he should resign. His fathers friends calling him a sociopath and be Court Documents dated in 2019. Hes leaving tools, clues, signs everywhere. Announcer live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. Well, it is thursday, january 112th, silence speaks louder than words. In the case of the misplaced classified documents the white house is very quiet. Thats after President Bidens legal team found a second set of classified documents. Its not clear where they were f
the uk has struck a deal to join a trans pacific trade pact consisting of 11 countries. together australia, brunei, canada, chile, japan, malaysia, mexico, new zealand, peru, singapore and vietnam account for 13% of global gdp. the pact called the comprehensive progressive agreement for trans pacific partnership aims to cut or reduce 95% of import charges or tariffs. but some will be retained to protect sensitive domestic areas. the initial gains for britain will only be marginal, as it already has free trade deals with 9 of the 11 countries involved, and the government s own estimates show being in the bloc will only add 0.08% to the size of the uk s economy. joining me now is marco forgione, dg of the institute of export and international trade. how big a win is this for britain? victoria, this is a huge achievement to the uk. there are three areas we need to look at whenjudging are three areas we need to look at when judging what s been approved. the first is the e
cnn this morning starts right now. this is the aftermath of what we reported yesterday, our breaking news. good morning. there are countless people still trapped under those piles of rubble and screaming out for help across turkey and syria. the staggering death toll topping 5,000 after the catastrophic earthquake. we ll take you live to the disaster zone and the massive rescue operation under way. and live on capitol hill this morning where tonight president biden is going to deliver his first state of the union address since republicans took control of the house. it s a major moment and he will use it to make his sales pitch for the re-election campaign he s expected to launch soon. we ll have a full preview of what to expect in tonight s state of the union. cnn has new and exclusive reporting a chinese spy balloon flew across florida when donald trump was president, but did his administration know? and we ll take you live to ohio for a closer look at the tense an