Harris the Breaking News continues. Keep keep close on capitol hill, House Of Representatives expected to vote on speaker of the house any moment now. Congressman jim jordan hopes he has enough support. He has gained major momentum, but can only lose four votes. Well follow the action. He had enough votes to get to the nomination. Well bring updates as they happen. In the middle east, President Biden will travel to the middle east later today. The high stakes trip as israeli faces Rocket Attacks from hezbollah on northern border with lebanon. We learned they have 100,000 rockets should they want to engage, another front of war with hezbollah to the north and hamas together to the south against israel, bringing concern the conflict could escalate in the region. 2000 american men and women marines mostly, have been placed on ready to deploy to the middle east within 24 hours notice to aid israel in advisory and medical support roles, but everybody is armed. Im harris faulkner. Here with
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Theyre speaking from the same playbook. But this is a tough line to walk, andrea. Ken dilanian, you had dan coats, head of national intelligence, questioned about the dissonance there. Lets watch. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said that the president would raise the issue of malign activity with the president. Im not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. Ken, it does seem that dan coats and the rest of the team have still not been briefed on what happened during that private one on one. And thats remarkable, andrea. Dan coats is the nations top intelligence official. He needs to know these things, he needs to understand where the russians are coming from, and what potential negotiations took place between the president and the russian leader. This News Conference was such a fascinating mixture of cynical
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By Ken Epstein Parents, teachers, and community members shut down the Oakland Board of Education meeting Wednesday evening to protest attempts by several members of the school board to keep a discussion of a Gaza Ceasefire resolution off the board agenda for the past five months. Hours into the meeting, protest leaders came to the
defense schools to have bipartisan support, and speaking to the congressmembers including tim birshette who i spoke to. when you have a man in a dress that is recruiting the military it is not going to fly in tennessee or most places in america. when we are getting away from what traditional america believes, traditional america is not going to play ball with you. i am a proud combat veteran and this is an insult to all who serve and particularly all who serve, and including those risking their life right now. reporter: that last comment