voter integrity. democrats are not buying that and joe biden saying the justice department is looking into the law and calling it jim crow for the 21st century. it s an atrocity. the idea you want any indication it has nothing to do with fairness or decency, they passed a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they re waiting to vote. you don t need anything else to know this is nothing but punitive designs to keep people from voting . you can t provide water for people about to vote? give me a break. georgia s vote is one of many republican efforts in states across the country aimed at restricting voting access in the wake of the november presidential election. all of it brought on by the big lie. still perpetuated by the former president trump to this day that the elections were somehow rigged against him. here now is cnn s sara murray. protect the vote! reporter: georgia governor brian kemp signing a dramatic overhaul of the nation s e
executive action on the border crisis as shocking scenes like on the screen become too often. you are watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. the numbers are staggering, 200,000 crossings just this year. todd: the biden admin strigz just closed both crossings this week while illegal activity reign supreme. carley: alexandria hoff has more from washington. alexandria: timing of the letter coincides with influx you were just talking about. in appeal to the president yesterday, speaker johnson wrote southern border of our nation is being overrun and border protection is at a breaking point. i urge you to take executive action to stem the record tide of illegal immigration. speaker johnson called on the president to end catch and release and see a grant parole on case-by-case basis, instead of a sweeping role and see president reinstate the stay in mexico program. the white house says they are doing all they can. it is not unusual, this im
after more than three weeks of dysfunction and chaos on capitol hill the house finally has a new speaker this morning. house lawmakers elected congressman mike johnson of louisiana as the 56 speaker of the house. he s a conservative ally of former president donald trump and a low ranking member of the gop leadership team. after 22 days of disarray republican house members demonstrated remarkable unity with all to 20 voting for johnson, shortly after the vote the new speaker made this pledge. i m going to make this commitment to you, my colleagues here and on the other side of the aisle as well. my office is going to be known for trust and transparency and accountability. for good stewardship of the people treasury. for the honesty, integrity that is incumbent upon us, all of us, here at the peoples house. speaker johnson will immediately have to work within his party and with the biden white house to figure out how to fund the government before money runs out on november
airport in florida. in sport .. three premier league sides are knocked out by lower league opposition in the fa cup third round among them bournemouth, who were beaten 3 0 by league one side millwall. and helen has the weather. a very similar day to yesterday, weatherwise. it is grey and misty with fog in a few localities first thing. the israeli ambassador has apologised for comments which appear to show an embassy employee plotting to bring down a government minister. undercover footage, filmed by middle east news network aljazeera, shows an israeli government employee saying he would like to take down the foreign office minister sir alan duncan. the video also shows the official insulting borisjohnson, as jane frances kelly reports. the emergence of the footage is highly embarrassing for the israelis. it shows shai masot dining with, among others, an aide to the conservative education minister robert halfon. mr masot, a senior political adviser at the israeli embassy, sa