iran hangs two men for allegedly killing a security official during anti government protests. and it s a huge weekend for the technology industry as the annual consumer electronics show gets under way in las vegas. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took four days, 15 votes, and numerous concessions, but the 20 or so rebels within his own party were eventually persuaded. sancha berg reports. after more than four days, it was over. ..of which the honourable i kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. cheering and applause ..to cheers from republicans in the house. chanting: usa! usa! usa! the democrat leader, hakeem jeffries, handed over the gavel. . .. kevin mccarthy. cheering and applause ..to the new speaker s clear relief. that was easy, huh? laughter i never thought we d get up here. this should have been a straightforward process, after r
move the needle in either direction? because there was finally a debate last night between these candidates, between kelly, masters and libertarian mark victor. here are some of the swatches. gas from $2 to $6 and now they want to price because it is back to $5. when the biden administration refuses to increase oil and gas production, i told him he was wrong. speak with a massive crushing inflation that joe biden and mark kelly caused. inflation reduction act reduces the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars. mark kelly said no to 18,000 more border patrol agents but yes 287,000 new irs agents. this premise that he is taking voting against border patrol agents, i have worked hard to make sure we have the money so we have more border patrol agents on the ground. senator mark kelly is the abortion radical. there is arizona women have totally lost the right to make a decision about abortion. martha: very interesting and those are the contours of the issues hot in ar
give us a picture of what we might have come november. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. there is a lot to talk about. bill: every tuesday this summer we ve been doing this. dana: you have an update for everyone. the races in florida and new york are drawing intrigue. drama is new york 12th district to force nadler and maloney into a fight for their political lives and trying to unseat them is patel. there is a special election for an open seat in congress in upstate new york. it could be a bellwether for november. the democrat campaigning hard on abortion rights. dana: in florida we re waiting to see who will emerge as the democratic challenger to governor ron desantis. charlie crist and nicki freed are vying for that nomination. the republican governor sounding confident this morning. we have people that want to visit, have moved here. lower unemployment rate now than prior to covid. you continue to see us adding jobs in sp
republican and one of the most extreme foreign policy hawks in the party. before entering politics, the first time she came on my radar screen, she s probably best known for her policy to keep america safe. that levied some pretty disgusting attacks against obama era department of justice officials who had, in private practice before they join the government, defended guantánamo bay detainees. cheney formally launched her political career by trying to carpetbag a wyoming senate seat, despite being born in wisconsin and despite having much of her adult life being spent in virginia. as the intercept reports, cheney launched a campaign to represent wyoming with a facebook post geotagged, mclean, virginia, her real home. she was challenging incumbent wyoming senator mike enzi, a staunch conservative from the right. but he was she was never able to shake the carpetbagger label. or provide a coherent reason for why she was a better choice than nze other than i am a cheney and i wa
is president biden s son, hunter biden, who is currently under federal investigation for possible tax crimes related to foreign business interests. speaker kevin mccarthy said these allegations facing the biden family paint a picture of corruption . the american people deserve to know that the public offices are not for sale. and that the federal government is not being used to cover up the actions of a politically associated family. i would encourage the president and his team to fully co operate with this investigation in the interests of transparency. our correspondent gary o donoghue has more from the us capitol. no president likes to face an impeachment inquiry, only three have done so in the history of this republic over the last 250 years. the bar is very high, it requires a majority of the house to vote for it and then in a trial, two thirds of the senate in order to remove a president. the democrats control the senate so that isn t going to happen. but it could soak