Great show. Thank you. Okay, so yesterday propublicaes published a recordg they obtained of the President And Ceo of a conservative group called the first Liberty Institute, and on the tape the president reads his donors an email that the first Liberty Institute got from Ginni Thomas. G i got an Email Today from Ginni Thomas, justice thomas wife, so i want to read that to you. You guys have filled the sails of manyll judges. Can i just tell you thank and this is in all caps thank you so, so much. To understand how exactly inappropriate that email is from the wife of a sitting supreme Court Justice you have to first understand what it is that firstst Liberty Institute actually does. Were the nations largest Law Firm exclusively supporting religiouslu liberty. Weve recently won four Supreme Court cases. We win over 90 of our cases, which is unheard of the in the legal world. And at the Supreme Court our record is nine wins and zero losses. That is correct. The organization that Ginni Tho
voted no. now, let s go live to capitol hill where fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has all the details. now, chad, we heard yelling. then we heard cheers from the floor. what can you tell us? well, democrats were yelling at the republicans to close the vote. because they were prevailing in this, obviously democrats did not want to impeach alejandro mayorkas, so they were winning, they kept yelling regular order. shut off the vote. and so here s what happened at the end. as you say there were four republicans who voted no. but i want to point out that that s with a caveat. here are the four who voted no and i will explain why this is very important. mike gallagher republican of wisconsin. ttom mcclintock. ken buck republican of colorado. the vice chair of the republican conference blakemore. now, at the end of the vote he switched his vote so this lost. 216 to 214. it was 215 to 215. by rule, a tie vote loses in the house of representatives. so why d
the house has now spoken and i think pretty loudly and clearly with everything republican voting in favour of moving into this official inquiry phase to do oversight. when a majority of the house goes on record in support of an official impeachment inquiry with the power that resides solely in the house of representatives, i think that sends a message. our reporter helena humphrey is on capitol hill, and i spoke with her earlier. good to see you, tell us more about the reactions to the vote today. the vote result was along party lines. so too was the reaction as well, as you might expect. the white house rather swiftly putting out a statement saying that this was baseless and nothing more than a political stunt. president biden accusing the republican party of essentially wasting time when there is still a lot of work to be done before lawmakers can leave congress for the holidays, not least when it comes to that question of finding any kind of consensus or way forward when i