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Were going to begin with the newly swornin speaker of the house, democrat nancy pelosi of california, scheduled to visit the white house this morning as votes to reopen the government passed the chamber late last night. One bill approved shortterm funding for the department of Homeland Security through february 8th to allow more time for Border Security negotiations. Five republicans joined all democrats in support of that vote, while another bill to fund the remaining shutdown agencies through the end of the fiscal year passed with 241 votes. In a News Conference before last nights vote, Spea...

History, now 55 members. Tonight its worth noting that while donald trump ran on banning muslims and issued a travel ban limiting immigrants from several muslim majority countries, voters responded by electing the first Muslim American ever to the United States congress. And while trump continues to bait Elizabeth Warren over native american issues, voters also elected the first native American Woman to ever serve in the u. S. Congress. You look at this, and you look at whats happening, you look at a historic day for america, and i can add that sometime we may reach a point where this type of ...

Are you antisemitic . She needs to be careful of her language. We have to be very, very careful with antisemitism. The words of any Committee Member makes headlines in other countries, even if they dont hear. Representative omar elm bodies a vile, hatefilled antisemitic, antiisrael bigotry. This is not a time for politics. This is a time for the Democratic Leaders in this institution to do the right thing. We have Fox Team Coverage former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich joins us in a moment. But we begin with ellison barber live in washington. Ellison, where are we at this hour . Hey, sandr...

Well, some of them are. I shouldnt say well, a lot of them. Theres enough that you hear the crickets. Theres enough for the cricket sound to be apt. Look, this is why people hate politics. This is one of the big reasons that trump was able to become president , because the level of disaffection is so high, the expectations are so low that when somebody comes in who seems like theyre going to be disruptive and theyre playing to your outrage and your anger at the system and at these other things that other people are too afraid to talk about, its not that theyre too afraid. Theyre too smart. The...

Following that came plans for a house resolution. Then came internal back lash from big name democrats that omar was the one being attacked. In the middle of all of this is Speaker Nancy Pelosi who will be speaking any moment now with reporters. We will bring that to you live when she addresses this. So what now . We will have to wait to hear from the speaker herself. Lets go to capitol hill covering this twist and turns on this issue right now. Where do thinks stand . So many twists and stands. As of now we believe there will be a vote at some point today on this final resolution. The final t...