than the country. . i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it s 4:00 in new york and yes, it s groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that s despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off the table sunday night and into monday, to the holdouts in his car gets caucus, a major allowance to the hard right republicans, he said he would lower the number from 5 to 1. he said he previously not accept that. congress and matt gaetz, he nominated donald trump for the speakership and described the power to remove the speaker as anyone, anywhere, anytime, raising questions about whether anybod
i should pay them a visit. we re hanging out on the couch with griff and rachel talking about all kinds of stuff. talking about if we should have christmas trees up, apparently there s some buses that people have been thrown under. i don t know. what do you think about it, griff? griff: well, i m not even going to go into what i was accused of this idea of throwing anybody under the bus about you we ve had this important debate whether you keep your tree up and of course we re getting feedback from our viewers at fox and friends@foxnews.com but we are getting schooled by rachel saying listen if you re catholic which i am so now i m fully in line in making sure mine doesn t come down, you keep it up for 12 days after. rachel: the 12 days of christmas which end on the sixth of jan which is the epiphany. joey: i like it. rachel: let christmas linger on i love it. griff: i have a problem, though, which is, and this is disclosing information. my wife wasn t happy with th
the fans. okay, they were vagrants who live under the bridge near my apartment. but that reminds me that we should talk about fentanyl. first of all, yes, it is the reason that greg is out. i promised him i wouldn t say anything but i feel like it s fine to lie to your boss who accuses you of doing drugs every day. more importantly, i want to talk about why fentanyl is a huge problem and why the government can t be the one to solve it. lately there s been a lot of talk about classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction or drug cartels as terrorist organizations or any sale of fentanyl resulting in a fatal overdose as a federal crime worthy of the death penalty. but like that lord of the rings prequel show, all of it is a bad idea. don t at me in other words, even you know it s [bleep]. it s not that i think fentanyl poisoning is not a threat and i do say poisoning because many of the people who have died from fentanyl didn t intend to tap fentanyl at all. it s not lik
weapon to try to win the war on ukraine saying we have not face the prospect of since at the cuban missile crisis parade we have got a guy i know fairly well he is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is as you might say significantly underperforming. you would think, with such an alarming statement, the president would be ready to answer questions and assure americans, but look what he did instead. literally, running away. lawmakers our taking notes of his weakness on the world stage. anti- american dictators around the world will smelt tha weakness get they see a week biden administration. right now we have a presiden who is very weak and abroad and at home, and he s brought it to himself because of his policies. he has also put america in a weaker position, he threatened our security by making us dependent on other nations. get this audis and their friend in the united arab e
taken no more than a single ballot on the first day in session to elect one. today house republicans, who are now in the majority, could not muster the votes needed to make their leader, kevin mccarthy, the speaker. instead, in a test of his capacity for humiliation, he sat there, smiling at times as votes were cast three times and results were read. the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ applause ] acclimation. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. no persons have received a majority of the whole numbers votes cast by surname. a speaker has not been elected. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. well, after the third rejection, republicans moved to adjourn until noon tomorrow. and this could all begin again. in 1923, it took nine ballots to choose a speaker. the record is 133 over two mo