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And fleeing. That will do it on this edition of Alex Witt reports. See again tomorrow. Up next, The Beat weekend. Welcome to the b weekend. Let us get right into the headline. Campaign boiled down to two big factors. The message, which takes endless repetition from the candidate, the surrogates, the ads. All the millions of dollars spent repeating the message. That is one part of the campaign but you might have heard some of the lines are variations on them from harris and her allies before. The other part is momentum. What we are seeing this week, they might have been seemingly logical Tuesday Night and even Wednesday Morning as it sunk in that room had a terrible Debate And Harris had a good one. It was only built ....
of the state of california has received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheering] [applause] alright here s how the vote finally broke down. mccarthy with 216, hakeem jeffries got 212. and six voted present which help mccarthy clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed for the majority. usa too. in the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. hooks ultimately the past several days were about negotiations. mccarthy agreed to a range of things. from only one lawmaker needed to propose a new speaker be put in place, to voting on term limits. in a speech on the house floor he shared his vision for uniting the legislative body. my father always told me, it s not how you start, it is how you finish. the hard work begins for it may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. no he doesn t ev ....
economy into a recession which is what we don t want. the gang is here. good morning. dana: good to be here i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. all that economic news coming this week with the administration, they re swirling as well as the news. they re swirling and spinning. the central back is expected to announce a rate hike again today. it would be the fourth one in five months that will pour cold water on an economy already slowing down. bill: the feds trying to pull us back from the brink of record inflation as the white house tries to redefine the r word. president s economic advisors are saying there won t be a recession. are you sure? let me just say this. we look at a range of data. we assess that data and we lay it out for ourselves and for the president. dana: team fox coverage. connell mcshane is with analysis but let s begin with jacqui heinrich from the north lawn. good morning. as you mentioned the fed is expected to raise rate ....
And his seats on a rules committee for house freedom caucus members. okay, and i am going to go to you first. i know you were up late watching this for you had your popcorn break. my big friday night. my hope tell room tilt money and watching this. maybe a glass of wine i don t know. the items the house freedom caucus wanted the in the end they got. are these fringe right-wing ideas or are these good ideas for the american people? guy: i think a good idea some could cause havoc down the road. the mccarthy team had their first job right in front of them we cannot do anything literally anything until the gavel is in someone s hands. they would mccarthy he got after his moderate record of 15 rounds of voting. now, really the harder part begins. because we just watch as fractious rebel can conference take four days to get a speaker in place when there are big-ticket pieces of legislation we now know it takes five lawmakers from any coalition and ....
professor turley, thank you. we ll see if anything comes of it. anything at all. thank you, sir, nice to see you today. dana: you could be just one ticket away from living easy. the mega millions jackpot topping $1 billion. no one won last night s drawing. that grand prize wasn t exactly pocket change. talking $830 million. your next chance to cash in is friday night. big friday night plans? bill: i will win a billion dollars. those are pretty big plans. dana: can i get 10%? you could. absolutely. dana: gave you the suggestion. bill: a wild nighttime police chase unfolding on a freeway in california. how the cops were able to track down the suspect in the dark as he ran. plus china threatening serious consequences if np goes to taiwan. ....