speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. look to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. but the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, you write? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office says the speakers were in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too short
anyone can get this disease, but one community may be more at risk right now. thank you so much for joining us. it is election day in america. voters are heading to the polls in five states today. much of the attention right now is on georgia. the key battleground state in 2020, sure to be important in 2024, and right now it is a test of donald trump s sway with american voters. the represent can primary for governor is its current governor, brian kemp, versus former senator david perdue. it s also basically turning into a mike pence versus donald trump matchup as well. and in the final minutes, there is a question today of what is david perdue trying to do, really, on camera making racist remarks about the democratic candidate in this race, stacey abrams. let s get to it, let s start there. kristen holmes is live in atlanta for us. kristen, early voter turnout has been huge and today is the day. reporter: this is huge. it has become a proxy war between the maga election
evening. i m bret baier. we re coming to you tonight from fox news world headquarters in new york. and breaking tonight, you have heard it all day. we are three hours from the start of what figures to be the most important event of the 2024 presidential campaign so far. president biden will face former president trump in the debate in atlanta. tonight both camps are setting exceptions, and getting in some preevent spin. meanwhile, there is still no decision from the u.s. supreme court on the former president s claim of immunity from prosecution. however, they have come down with some important decisions. we will get an update from shannon bream on that in a minute. we have fox team conch tonight. fox news chief legal correspondent, anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream with the latest from court. aishah hasnie atlanta new rules on the debate how they may impact what we see and hear tonight. we begin with peter doocy live on the north lawn of the white house with something
help me deliver on that. if the past week is an indicator for what may lay ahead, it may be a bumpy two years. we hope it s smooth and out a little bit. senator russia cushman murthy, thank you so much sir. we appreciate you coming on. thank you, ayman. i mentioned this a moment ago, one of the surprises of this long night was the fiery speech of democratic leader hakeem jeffries. we are wide, we are black, we are latino, we are, asian we are native american. we are christians, we are jewish, we are muslim, we are in, do we are religious, we are secular, we are gay, we are straight, we are young, we are older, we are women, we are man, we are citizens, we are dreamers out of many, we are one, that s what makes america a great country. t hat s what makes america no matter what s [applause]
60% of its oil imports. the prime minister hinted that there might be funds coming from the eu budget to sort of pay for infrastructure in countries like hungary to compensate them in some way, but now i think attention turns to eu leaders and a meeting happening at the end of this month. there is focus on that to see if they can get something done then. moving fast but not so much at the same time. it s good to see you, clare, thank you. let s turn now to the critical situation on the mexican border. the rule known as title 42, that that court ruling will not slow border crossings. migrants remain determined to come to america no matter what. cnn s matt rivers is live on the mexican side of the border with more on this. matt, it s good to see you. what are you seeing there? reporter: kate, well, yesterday we got a chance to