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Hour of Fox And Friends starts right now. Todd new information on the war in israel. The idf says 199 hostages being hold, 14 believed to be americans. Steve we know the idf is evacuating 28 communities in Northern Israel because of constant strikes in hezbollah near the border with lebanon. Ainsley and now threatening toin join the war and fbi fbi is warning of Copycat Attacks on u. S. Soil. Lawrence we have Team Coverage of the war. Jacqui heinrich has more. But first well check in with trey y...

kagan is calling a second trump term a clear path to dictatorship in the united states. and former speechwriter for george bush david frum said it would instantly put the country in a constitutional crisis. and liz cheney said that if trump wins, hell never leave. so what is donald trumps response to in? it is not me, but it is president biden that democracy should fear. we go over to kristen holmes, and hearing from liz cheney this morning saying that if you vote for trump, it is the ...

we can be two consenting adults and finish it here. >> thats fine, perfect. >> want to do it now? >> i would love it. >> stand your butt up. >> stand your butt up. >> stop it. >> sit down. sit down. youre a united states senator. sit down. sit down please. >> lets get ready to rumble! three days until a possible shutdown and what were republicans doing today? shoving each other in the hallway, screaming at their colleagues and challenging committee witnesses to fight. plus, tens of t...

What does it say about where the far right wing of the republican party is? >> well, in part, it is right, but it at least used to be a little bit more serious about being conservative, something along those lines. i think she has gotten too loud for the freedom caucus. they dont like that she is comfortable with speaker mccarthy and what it represents. i think that puts kevin mccarthy in a very precarious situation. five votes is what prevents him from being speaker. it is a very curious thing ...

Before they cause a recession, john. >> matt egan breaking down the important numbers. thank you. kevin mccarthy, very happy to finally be in the speakers office, and now were beginning to get more of the details of those side deals he cut to get the final votes, side deals with the holdouts who were keeping him from being speaker. lets walk through some of this. back when we were electing a speaker, there were 20 republicans initially who said either never kevin or not yet kevin until we get ...

Ultimately as someone said to me, tom delay, i asked a veteran member, delay wouldnt get the votes. >> two things would be, one, the difference is between the squad and nancy pelosi was you might be not progressive enough. nancy pelosi was very progressive. so they were dealing with a leader who had the same goals and they had policy priorities. they had sort of real differences on things they could talk about. where you have this 20 members of the republican caucus, youre not even sure what the...

Having sifted the most illuminating quotes by public figures in 2022 from the billows of hot air that were expelled, PAUL DONNELLEY asks, who said what?

Chuck schumer emoted. he is from new york or as he likes to say brooklyn, so that is -- but we normally see nancy pelosi, the speaker, very buttoned up. you dont normally see that side of her. i dont know whether it was the chinese food or whether its moving on from being speaker. but i thought it was most fascinating to see actually how well they get along, the fact that they speak four times a day and they talked about i think well see it, i asked if they play good cop bad cop with trump. and ...

That there were other people who could effectively be the speaker. we thought kevin mccarthy was one of those people at the time, it turned out that wasnt the case. but we knew paul ryan was a candidate, and believe it or not, this doesnt get a lot of attention. trey -- votes to be speaker as well if he chose to run. im not sure if theres anybody else in the house who could get the votes. keep in mind, right now, with the slim margin, lets say its a five vote margin, any group of six house membe...

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