a small audience at the january six hearing on capitol hill with what ended up being a 12 minute snooze fest that was very heavy on rhetoric. the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test. oh , i get it. so now bennie thompson cares about the transfer of power and making sure it works okay. remember, he s the same benneton who voted against certifying george w. bush s election win. and by the way, i m not even talking about the 2000 recount . we re talking about 2004 and the blowhard of the evening award goes to liz cheney. now if you saw her interview were rough to watch a little soporific when it was off the cuff. try watching her for 34 uninterrupted minutes of screen reading our oath to defend the united states constitution and that must mean something. tonight i say this to my republican colleagues who are defending me indefensible. there will c
threatening. spaces online and real life where conservatives feel they get shut down for voicing unpopular views and where political correctness and wokeness force them to walk on pins and needles or just keep quiet for fear of getting cancelled. to put it mildly they don t like safe spaces, okay, they really, really hate them, but what s happened on the right and specifically inside the republican party in the last couple of decades is that their sense of victimhood and frankly fear and rage at an increasingly diverse country where they aren t automatically at center of everything, where other communities have gotten a chance to be focused on, like hollywood and books and in the culture and have elected political leaders who look like them, president obama, kamala harris and the guy recruited on to the bad list for being associated with both of them, joe biden. their anger has frankly corroded into something more like hate. to the point where they, even as the my north. only
will bring out both the best and worst in us. and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news, and it is us. slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie potboiler dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name! i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of a weekly one-hour show that literally c
Hill now. Fox news among the journalists spotting the interim republican speaker of the house moments ago Patrick Mchenry. He sent the entire house home late yesterday following that historic vote to strip Kevin Mccarthy from the speakership. So what is mchenry doing there today . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Eight republicans pulled off an epic power move in washington, d. C. It was led by longtime mccarthy critic florida representative matt gaetz. 208 democrats voted against mccarthy as well. All together with those Eight Booting Congressman Kevin Mccarthy from the speaker seat. And right now it leaves a void that wont be filled likely until next week at the very earliest when lawmakers are set to return. And with this recent Media Sighting of the interim speaker mchenry, could there be changes coming . Well, whenever the timing is, until they choose a new speaker, the business is at a full stop in the house. Todays New York Post cover with this blistering ta
And more in some cases. But whatever i can do to help with regard to speaker. Im also leading biden by a lot. If i wasnt i wouldnt have trials like this. Thank you very much. How is melania, mr. President . You are going through a lot. Bill there you go, last question about the former first lady, right . Martha we were talking as he came out. I hope someone asks him about the speaker question because his name gets getting floated for that. I would say based on the comments he made they should take him off that list. He is focused on running for president. 40 to 50 points ahead. I dont know why anybody wants to run into the buzz saw of Speaker Of The House. Not a productive place to be at the moment. He kind of brushed that idea off. Bill martha maccallum, bill hemmer. Andy mccarthy joins us now. Former u. S. District attorney. You wrote this week with trump already found guilty his new york fraud trial begins. You say the Boll Show Vick Block of the Democratic Party is having its Fanta