martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. the story happening right now is new reaction coming in about the white house as president biden has said i think we need a pause in the israel hamas war in order to get humanitarian aid in and people being held there out. but others say that that only gives hamas time to reload as the u.s. tries to accomplish those goals. here s john kirby moments ago. localized that would allow us to get aid in and to get our people out is a good thing for the people of gaza, a good thing for the americans that are being held hostage and it s not going to stop israel from defending itself. the security assistance we re providing continues to flow. a temporary pause doesn t mean a general cease fire when the war is over. it means pause for a specific purpose. martha: so let s go to tel aviv now and speak with danny dannon, a former israeli ambassador to the united nations. good to have you with us tod
and two, if they were to hold a vote, how would it shakeout? do the republicans even have enough votes for an expungement? yes, listen, those were the two key questions at play right now, and they re interrelated. so as play. book reported yesterday, play. book is saying that mccarthy told trump he would hold this vote on expunging his impeachments by before august recess set to kick off by the end of next week and said it would come by the end of september and the question is will congress bring this to the floor, that depends and we don t yet have a clear answer because if mccarthy were to bring these expungement resolutions to the floor they wouldn t have enough support to pass, which could then be an effort against the idea of expunging the impeachments by in a way reinforcing them. i spoke to lawmakers yesterday who were cool to this idea, particularly there was one house republican who i spoke to who
microphone, the senate is going to be readying a vote on that voting rights legislation and it s expected to fail. we are going to vote. we re all going to go on the record. and republicans will have to choose which side they stand on. that means it s a show vote. democrats can t pass this because they don t have enough democrats to blow up senate rules and change the filibuster which has democrats now trying to run other democrats out of town. would you support efforts to primary senators manchin and sinema. i m not getting into the politics. this is a subsubstantive serious issue. as president biden reportedly seeks a public recess set. he has only had nine formal press conferences, six of those solo and then three joint pressers side by side with other world leaders. in terms of voting rights, his view is that it s never a
bipartisan infrastructure bill. leigh ann caldwell snapped a photo of the bill as it made the first rounds of the hill, and that stack of paper is 2700 pages high. it is including billions for roads and brejs and broadband access and billions more for clean water, and dealing with climate change. the focus now turns to getting it passed in the senate. majority leader chuck schumer is eyeing votes as soon as possible, but the august recess set to begin next week, but today, the minority leader mitch mcconnell insisted they should not be in a rush. i encourage the senators from both sides of the aisle to submit the potential amendments on the bill. let s start voting on the amendments, because the longer it takes to finish the bill, the longer we will be here. the artificial timetable of the bill will not be penciled
so people are already in position where they need help, our post vulnerable, those in need, how can we go vacation! meanwhile chuck schumer says that he is giving lawmakers the time they need to finalize the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill. the bill is really a huge priority for president joe biden and includes money for crumbling roads and bridges and him proving mass transit and auto systems. the senate is racing to pass a deal before leaving for that august recess set to begin at the end of the next week. thomas gift is a director of the center on u.s. poll sicks at the university college london an is joining me now from oxford. good to see you, it has been a while sin we vce we ve chatted. this infrastructure bill is one of his defining acts of his presidency? great to see you. absolutely, this is one of the big issues for joe biden. he made it a flagship part of his proposal right out of the