we will give you that coming up. but first the house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan and congressman gaetz will be here on hearings on capitol hill with fbi director chris wray who should be fired and under wray and his predecessor mr. comey, the once premier law enforcement agency has been transformed into nothing short of an arm of the democratic party. they ve become politicized and weaponized. the bureau is rot from the top down with extreme political bias and based on wray s non-answers cavalier attitude today he seems like he doesn t care at all. now it s well established that the fbi puts sindzer blocks on the scales of the last two presidential elections in our country. in 2016 after detailing a litany of serious crimes, top secrets there was no raid of hillary clinton s chappaqua home. not at all. james comey said no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute hillary clinton. remember the 33,000 subpoenaed deleted emails and destroyed devices? no consequences ther
an autocrat facing dozens of ny charges with an ax to grind against the government he seeks to lead. that s a question that republican candidates are either unable to answer or unwilling to answer at this moment. there s now just one major challenger to ex-president trump after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. it s hard to remember but for a time, ron desantis was seen as the much vaunted trump slayer, the one candidate who could break the hold on trump that he had on the voters in the republican party. appeal to those alienated by trump and ultimately beat joe biden. back in 2022, the new yorker asked, can ron desantis displace donald trump as the combatant in chief? the new york times asked, quote, is ron desantis the future of the republican party? but a las as it turned out, voters didn t want a trump alternative, they wanted trump. that became clear as his legal troubles mounted with every indictment the trump got stronger in the pol
break her kneecaps. john berman here in for anderson. those words from a federal criminal complaint spell out an attempt to take house speaker nancy pelosi captive, interrogate her and beat her savagely if the answers did not come out right, which the suspect, one david depape, considered a certainty. late today we saw separate state charges, including attempted murder. more on that shortly. stop at think about what s already on the table. according to federal authorities who have now charged him with an assault on paul pelosi and attempted kidnapping of nancy pelosi, this man says he wants to break the kneecaps of an 82-year-old woman and do it to make a political point. quoting again from the filing, in the course of the interview, depape articulated that he viewed nancy as the leader of the pack of lies told by the democratic party. the document goes on in graphic detail about what the suspect said he intended. the bottom line is simple enough. according to the suspect him
Voting for speaker. This time louisiana congressman mike johnson is the fourth nominee for republicans. Hello, and welcome. Im sandra smith in new york, a big welcome back to you, john. John good to be back, john roberts in washington, and this is america reports. Remains unclear whether mike johnson will have the support to win the job. Chad pergram, of course, has been watching this for what feels like weeks now, because it has been weeks. Chad, whats the latest . They are getting very close to taking yet another ballot here for Speaker Of The House. What they have been doing the past couple of minutes here is putting into nomination the candidate for this particular round, of course mike johnson, the new one here and pete aguilar, the chair of the Democratic Caucus is again nominating Hakeem Jeffries, the democratic leader. This feels different than some of the other chapters we have been through over the past couple of weeks. I talked to a couple members a few minutes ago, members
out front a major terror plot on u.s. soil foiled. a senior administration official tells me this was international murder for hire. here s what we ve been told. two men charged in an alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the united states. one is a naturalized u.s. citizen in custody and identified as 56-year-old mondaysor ar bab si ar. he appeared in a courthouse this afternoon. he did not enter a plea. according to the complaint that we read, he planned for someone to kill the saudi arabian ambassador at one of his favorite restaurants in washington, d.c. he told an informant that mass casualties didn t matter, saying, if the hundred go with him, expletive, them. the plot itself is a work of intrigue. it began this spring when he met in mexico with a d.e.a. informant posing as a member of a violent drug cartel. over the next few months, he got the informant to agree to assassinate the ambassador for a fee o$1.5 million. he also wanted an attack on t