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today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on janua ....
The names are 91. Two thirds being in the affirmative. The rules are suspended. The bill is passed without objection to motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Arthel the house devoting a little over an hour ago to pass a temporary Spending Bill to keep the federal government funded for the next 45 days. But there are still questions about that bill as as well the future speaker Kevin Mccarthy. As it turns out to the senate to vote still with a midnight deadline looming for a Government Shutdown. Hello Everyone Welcome to a brandnew hour of Fox News Live i am Arthel Neville hi eric. Eric hello everyone thank you for joining us im eric shawn and man ....
A cnn political commentator as well. good to have you both. alyssa, let s start with you, and you can t beat somebody with nobody, right? who s on the short list of potential not mccarthys that could get 218 votes? anybody? well, so that s the magic question. conservatives may be overplaying their hand here because they don t have a consensus candidate to put up. jim banks would have been obvious, but now he s looking at a senate run. jim jordan is not interested in it. so the most likely scenario if kevin mccarthy can t get to 218, and it ll go to multiple ballots. that s what happens, would be someone like a steve scalise coming into the void who i think could get the 218. i was working on capitol hill in 2015 when house conservatives blocked mccarthy from the speakership then. i think it s going to be a lot of behind the scenes to get extractions from him, and commitments leading up to that floor vote. i think it is probably 50/50 he ends up pulling off the ....
Have been here on a multi-day visit ahead of their earthshot prize awards, aer ceremony that supposed to happen tonight, and was founded by william to tackle environmental challenges. the two individuals coincided, and president biden is here to meet with union workers notably on a day where he signed the rail legislation that received some pushback for not having paid sick leave, and he s also going to participate in a key fund-raiser ahead of that georgia senate runoff where he s going to shore up support for democratic incumbent raphael warnock. he s been here before shoring up support from a distance, doing that now for, again, warnock as democrats try to get another seat in the senate next week. victor and alisyn? all right, priscilla. thank you. let s get back now to the goings on on capitol hill. alyssa farah griffin is a former trump white house communications director and cnn political commentator and alice stewart is ....