Revolt on fisa as the House Speakers future hangs in the balance, just a few votes. But we begin at the white house where President Biden is still predicting an Interest Rate cut and defending his administrations role fighting inflation. At the same time, the president is trying to circle the wagons in the pacific against china. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. Once enemies now allies closer than ever. The United States and japan announced more than 70 Defense Cooperation Agreements among other collaborations in a not so subtle message to china, increasingly aggressive in the South Pacific and the taiwan strait. President Biden Preemptively Cooling Blowback from beijing. And our alliance we have with japan is a purely defense in nature. Its not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region. The japanese state visit comes one day before a trilateral meeting with the philippines under i
resolution, they could vote immediately on killing or tabling the effort. democrats could protect johnson. at least three house republicans want a new speaker. green, ghost gosser of arizona and thomas massie from kentucky. neil: thank you. thomas massie is joining us now, and preferring to see the speaker leave, if he would resign, why? we would like to see him resign in the manner that john boehner did and give us a few weeks advanced notice and have a republican speaker in the chair and go about our business of investigations and hearings while we pick a speaker in our conference instead of letting that play out on the floor. why do we think he needs to go? he s about to commit his third betrayal today of the american public. the first was an omnibus bill that spent more than nancy pelosi, his second betrayal last week, reauthorizing fisa without letting us require