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is of the 5.lert fox news alert the house and voted to 162 07 to hold merrico garland in contempt for refusing to hand over the robert heardle interview. every republican voted yes except 1 ohio congressman davidn joy s whd o voted no. what s next that s what everyons is wondering because in terms of the contempt it s up to doj to decide if they pressed chargesfr and go after their boss it s unlikely they do that and house republicans know that as the swinan ae why they will force am of vote on inherent contempt. that s what they saw on the house floor this evening basically meaning if it passes the house sergeant at arms willr be forceced to go and the rest g merrick garland because he is in contempt a privilege motion can bring that to a vote in the next 2 legislative days having eyesot on or after they voted on theha house floos r not doing that jut yett the may be trying gathert o support for that resolution a historic day of the house first time in a long time the ....
So this is the state of the country and the democratic party after joe biden s first year in office. it s a very chaotic christmas, and there is no leader to be found. one year down, three to go. victor davis hanson is a seniort fellow at the hoover institution and he joins us now. vdh, are we watching the machinery of the democratic party, even biden s team, the media, warm the country up to getting use to biden not being there, kind of already in the process of putting him out to pasture? yeah, it sure seems like it, jesse. i think what they did and realizes they thought they could run the country the way they ran a campaign, with a virtual candidate in the basement, and covid would hide that, and then when he was elected, they thought, well, he will be a virtual president like he was aa virtual candidate, but they are ....
Thank you. for many in congress some of this christmas holiday is the calm before the political storm. when lawmakers return in january, a looming budget fight that could lead to more threats of a government shutdown. let s get more from seniort capitol hill producer chad pergram.m. what s the first thing they need to get done? they have to fund the government. deadline is january 19. senate returns on january 3. that means there is 11 calendar days defunded. the issues they had fun of the government right before christmas, they have not dousedn those claims. nothing is resolved.e they don t have much turning radius. they have to do with cost-sharing reduction. these are the extra help they were getting before that president trump cut for health care, csrs are the term. something that s very popular in the senate, bipartisan support, but not so much in the house ....