welcome all of you. byron, the president tweets out a big announcement regarding the border at 3:00 p.m. let s stipulate none of us know what it is. shannon: i don t know. you don t know. we know that both sides are trying to put pressure on each other and trying to keep this alive and going. we just had this appalling encounter between the president and nancy pelosi in which the speaker disinvited the president from the state of the up yun and the president retaliated by canceling her trip to afghanistan. now, necessary receding into the past. he will have to do something tomorrow to keep things going. karen, five minutes and we are on a new news cycle. if i had to guess, which is what i would do, there is a possibility he declares a state of emergency, essentially, the off ramp. the other possibility is that he puts a specific compromise on the table, give me money for the wall and i will give you money
as my family and i have worked through the grieving process, i ve said all along, what i ve said time and again to others, that it may very well be that that process by the time we get through it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign. for president. that it might close. i ve concluded it has closed. well, vice president biden ending the suspense today in a rose garden appearance announcing he will not seek the democratic nomination for president. let s bring in our panel. steve hayes, of the weekly standard, karen tumelty from the washington post and syndicated columnist charles
of the department of justice. it s not in the hands of the of the benghazi committee. they will determine the one in 100 chance that she follows. karen, we agree with that, not to expect much from the testimony tomorrow? i think the bigger event come saturday night in iowa. where she s going to be up against bernie sanders. this is a quadrennial dinner 2007 it was the first sign that she was in big trouble against barack obama and seeing the two of them, having to spell out their visions side by side, think is going to tell us a lot about how this democratic primary is going to be framed. we got about a minute left. you re our resident benghazi expert, steve. if anybody has a sense, does the committee have ammunition to go after hillary clinton tomorrow or not? yeah, i think they ve uncovered new information on all three aspects of the benghazi investigation. what happened before, what happened during and after. i think they ll focus on before and in particular on the security
end of the evening. 80%. right. to endorse somebody. the the rule is that they need 80% to endorse somebody. there has been talk of suspending that rule or setting it aside for this vote. we don t know what the ultimate determination of that is there are conflicting reports coming out of those meetings. you had mo brooks on fox business about an hour ago saying he thought it would be very difficult. republican from alabama. republican from alabama. member of the house freedom caucus saying he thought it would be very difficult for ryan to get that requisite 80% if, in fact, that rule is not suspended. and then you have had others come out and say from the house freedom caucus come out and say we are ready to get behind him. is he a unifying element. we are ready to move forward. karen, i thought it was interesting that john boehner scheduled votes for speaker next wednesday, not so long from now among republicans and next thursday on the full house floor. for him to do th
the potential speaker by the end of the evening. 80%. right. to endorse somebody. the the rule is that they need 80% to endorse somebody. there has been talk of suspending that rule or setting it aside for this vote. we don t know what the ultimate determination of that is there are conflicting reports coming out of those meetings. you had mo brooks on fox business about an hour ago saying he thought it would be very difficult. republican from alabama. republican from alabama. member of the house freedom caucus saying he thought it would be very difficult for ryan to get that requisite 80% if, in fact, that rule is not suspended. and then you have had others come out and say from the house freedom caucus come out and say we are ready to get behind him. is he a unifying element. we are ready to move forward. karen, i thought it was interesting that john boehner scheduled votes for speaker next wednesday, not so long from now among republicans and next thursday on the full