And fibers of the security and National Threat concerns. This subcommittee hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but ive read some history, what was like to build the electric grid a century ago. We couldnt of imagine the technologies we use to power our homes and businesses today. The real challenge was extending power itself in every form of our society and there was a challenge that those providing power make money in the cities in well Populated Areas with business and commercial opportunities, with electric the government made a basic deal, we would provide an a monopoly over providing power and a lot of these areas, firms would make a lot of m
we will hear from you live at the end of each show starting tonight. also tonight the hannity it hot seat is back. stay tuned i will go one-on-one with one lucky liberal. and stephen a. smith is going to join us with more on the injury to jamar hamilton. he and his family in our nation s prayers tonight. we begin this fox new year with a fox news alert. it s day one of the congress, how republicans are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if not careful. despite the cheering of the democrats and the media, it s not a dyer situation yet. here where we are. at this hour a contentious battle for speaker is under way. after falling short of the 2718 votes needed kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career way small group of law makers standing in the way. many are pushing for jim jordan to be the speaker of the house. jim jordan is already supporting mckargt.y. from what purpose does the gentleman from ohio ask for recognition. i rise to show support for the dif
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
hundred nine for one seven three to six .n let us know what you like, whato you don t like. we re going to hear from some of you live at the end of each show starting tonight. alsonight., tonight, coming up, the hannity hot hot seat is back .st stay tuned. i llay tuned i wil go one on one very, very lucky liberal. luc and then later, the one smith and only stephen a. smith. he s going to join us with join injuryyhorrific to buffalo bills star damar hamlin hamlyn and his fam entire family there in our nation s prayers tonight. but first, we begin this new year with a fox news alert.s it is day one of the one hundred and eighty eight congress and house republicans now are becomin on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they re not carefug a total. but despite the cheering and elation from democrats and the moring of b and the media, it s not a dire situation yet. situan now, here s where we are at con this hour. a contentious battle for speakeerr is underway after fall
allegedly threatening guards from his jail cell. you better believe he has been read his rights anything he says can and will be used against him. the price tag for covid school closures could tropic $28 trillion. a new study by stanford economists project students will miss out on $70,000 each over their lifetime. mitchell for 3. unbelievable. oh my goodness. [cheers] i don t know what to say. that s not necessary. just a dynamite performance. brian: they are celebrating in basketball but not in football. we begin this morning with a fox news alert. damar hamlin is in critical condition after one of the most shocking moments that we have seen ever in any sport. steve: the bills safety leaving the field in an ambulance with his mother after a hit during a monday night football matchup with the bengals. the nfl has postponed the game out of grave concern about mr. hamlin s health. and todd piro joins us live with the latest. todd? steve, ainsley and bri