mccarthy is scrambling to gain the votes he needs to be speaker even after making major concessions this weekend, it still might not be enough. the suspect in the machete attack on three police officers in times square,vestigators dis handwritten diary. what it says. plus this. eight and a half years for the organizer to kidnap and kill me, that s a significant sense. we have gretchen whitmer s reaction to the sentences handed to the man who plotted to kidnap her. hear what she told our own kaitlan collins. let s begin in washington. house republican leader kevin mccarthy will be taking the race for speaker to the floor officially tomorrow in what could be the most dramatic house speaker election. he s made a number of concessions so try to get the number of votes to succeed nancy pelosi. will we see the first floor fight as it s called in 100 years. let s turn to harry inton. what do you think? let s talk math. right now the gop s 2023 majority is 222, seats majori
focus. the january 6th tour taking pictures of hallways, tunnels and staircases inside the capitol complex, clearly not normal tourist fare and there s more. the committee has also released video of that same man you saw there near the capitol on january 6th issuing violent threats against house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck shumer and other democratic members of congress. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? we re coming to take you out. we ll pull you out by your hair. we made the decision to play the video to you at all, not to amplify the threats, but to present the powerful evidence in the hands of the committee that refutes congressman loudermilk s previous forceful denials that he was not involved with tours of any insurrectionist in the run-up to january 6th. today loudermilk doubled down denying once again that he was
harris: new information on this. so much for deterrence. 47 is the latest number of attacks on our troops in irrelevant rack and syria since october 17th. two the number of times we fired back. iran s threat is on full display with growing fears of a much wider war. iran pays and trains those killers attacking our military men and women as you know. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. our latest strike on wednesday hit a weapons storage facility inside syria. those iran-funded groups responded with five attacks targeting our people. in total, 56 of our military men and women have been wounded. some are seriously wounded. one government contractor has died. the iran-backed houthi militia in yemen claimed responsibility for shooting down a $30 million american drone. iran s top diplomat says the offensive in gaza makes expansion of the war inevitable. the israeli defense force continuing to hammer terror targets in gaza. a day of fierce combat as diplomat