Headquarters in new york. Breaking right now, were waiting for the first News Conference from the brand new Speaker Of The House, mike johnson. He won with a slim majority from the republicans but they were lined up this time around, which we have not seen in the prior three rounds. This happened three weeks after they ousted former speaker, Kevin Mccarthy. This is a beautiful country. Its the beauty of america that allows a firefighters kid like me to come here and serve in this Sacred Chamber where great men and women have served before all of us and strive together to build and preserve what lincoln referred to as the last best hope on earth. Martha well hear from mr. Johnson about what he plans to do as he takes on this very big role in the United States government. Also, on the other front, a very big afternoon as President Biden spoke today, he spoke quite briefly actually, in a News Conference that everybody was waiting all day for about what we now know have been attacks on u.
Troops remain deployed. a different story last night. they came under attack from iran s proxy forces. they were under multiple rocket atact and they conducted other fire. the militia s said they ve launched crude drone attacks against american in irrelevant action. the second time president biden ordered air strikes have upset some democrats because the white house decision did it without informing congress first. we always worry the united states slips into war without the american public being able to weigh in. yesterday iran s proxy groups had a large funeral in baghdad for the four fighters killed in the u.s. air strikes. some lawmakers want to repeal the war authorizations they say a new one is needed. democrats say it might take too