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happening now. new evidence connecting the capitol riot directly to former-president trump and his pressure campaign against his vice president. insiders swearing under oath that trump knew his scheme to get mike pence to overturn the presidential election was illegal but trump plowed ihead, anyway. the january 6th select committee also documenting pences escape from that mob that was threatening his life with rioters at one point only 40 feet away. we are breaking down all the testimo...

Sandra youre looking live at protests on capitol hill. Demonstrations filling the capitol hill rotunda. The protester theres are demanding a cease fire in israel. That is the scene in washington, this following a series of protests happening across the mideast following the blast at a hospital in gaza. All of this as the president , President Biden, wraps his visit to the region. Okay. Were watching all of those live events for you at this hour. Welcome. Im sandra smith in for neil cavuto. This ...

We dont have a sovereign nation without a secure border. We must secure our border. We must know who is coming over here. Just the last piece of video i wanted to show you, Border Patrol agents, texas dps officers rescuing a honduran man that was drowning, saved his life. Thats part of the Unsung Heroes job, they do it every day, it gets little attention but that is part of the crisis that we have going here, sandra, back to you. Sandra Griff Jenkins on that, latest developments from the border....

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Say it would create. meanwhile, thousands of keystone opponents rallying in our nations capitol calling for the president to just kill it. molly is live in washington with the latest. >> hi, eric. president obama is getting an ear full from groups that are usually loyal segments of the democratic base. labor unions and environmentalists. they disagree on the keystone pipeline issue. environme environmentalists were protesting on the national mall today. theyre glad president obama delayed the pr...

The white house is keeping an eye on the senate as they are expected to take up the house bill and dismantle it and send it back. barring some unexpected breakthrough, it looks like we are headed for the government shutdown. >> this is the old football str strategy. >> reporter: house republicans rallied on the steps of the capitol calling for the senate to come back to work, an inside, a ghost town, and not long after the house gop passed a bill in the early morning hours sunday. >> a motion to...

Catnip to a lot of their constituents. a lot of these republican members arent really afraid of whatever democratic challenges they get. theyre actually afraid of getting primary challenges. because theyve done too much. >> it goes both ways though. >> exactly. about 83% of the house doesnt have to worry about the other party. most of them have to worry about their own party. but these tea party types want to -- they want to get rid of speaker boehner, they ought to be careful what they wish for...

Deal with oil supply problems. though officials refuse to say which options they are evaluating. shep? >> shepard: rich edson live in washington tonight, rich, thanks. for weeks we have been reporting on the growing turmoil stretching across the middle east. antigovernment demonstrators turning out in huge numbers in the countries you see here. much of the unrest began in tunisia and quickly spread to egypt and beyond. in yemen two protesters are dead tonight as thousands swarmed the capitol cal...