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JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: Rep. Hernandez talks about decade following shooting JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: Rep. Hernandez talks about decade following shooting By Wendi Redman | January 8, 2021 at 4:48 PM MST - Updated January 8 at 6:37 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - One Jan. 8 survivor said that day solidified his future in serving the Tucson community. “I still vividly remember the first kind of shots. At first I thought maybe it’s fireworks,” said state Rep. Daniel Hernandez. Hernandez was interning for Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords at the time of the shooting. He was helping to sign people up who wanted to speak with the congresswoman. At that moment, he reacted.
>> welcome back. key cartel leader has been killed. samuel floor reds was shot dead in what appeared to be members of his own drug cartel. police found him in a pickup truck near new mexico. congresswoman gabriel giffords who last appeared in public at the debt ceiling vote in august will return home to tucson this week for a brief visit. giffords will meet with family and friends. she is currently recovering at her husband's home in houston. it's her second visit home since being shot in the head in tucson in january. dave? >> thank you, juliette. the white house hinting that president obama's jobs speech next nurse is just the start of a series of economic speeches and profltedst proposals. do we need more talk. what about walking the walk? fair and balanced debate political human list rod tom and neil as burry. good morning, guys. >> good morning, dave. >> if in fact these early reports, speculations are correct and is he not going town
republican aids earlier in the day was likely tomorrow and now we can say for sure according to our colleague trish turn err who covers the senate that it will be tomorrow morning. we expect support. we have heard both leaders come out strong for this bill. now that the house has acted, the clock is ticking, obviously tomorrow night at midnight, there is the deadline we will hit our debt ceiling. so we expect the senate to act promptly tomorrow morning and then send the bill to the president shep ship i'm not sure mike if congresswoman giffords was the one who cast the vote that send it over the passage. sure important as each one was. she returns to the house floor for the first time since she was shot in tucson that her office has written a statement. bret baier has that for us. hey, bret. >> gabriel giffords statement from her office quote in the words of the congresswoman i have closely followed the debate over our debt ceiling. and have been deeply
it. >> if we see her, it will be for the first time. let's look. there she is. our viewers may recognize here there in the green. and that round of applause, i believe, bret baier would be for passage. for viewers who aren't fully aware. gabriel giffords is the arizona congresswoman shot in the tucson massacre. a number of people killed and many others juries j. upton injured, killed including a federal judge. gabriel giffords to my knowledge has not been back in this body and can you see her in the center of all of that. our technical folks in the booth are trying to give us a shot shadow there so you can get an idea. certainly not the man with her head. >> she has glasses on there, shep. >> shepard: exactly. gabriel giffords, we were talking about a vote just the other day. we were told, of course, one of the members of congress who will
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i don't know but guys down in d.c. about an hour before the vote. he met with her right before they entered the house chamber apparently they gave each opener a hug in a back hallway. the house majority leader eric cantor just said quote with the dramatic entrance of gabriel giffords it shows that we are all americans. we are also told the vice president met with her. our producer trish turner asked him what did you say to her? he said this, quote, i told her she is now a member of the cracked head club like me. it was good to see her. vice president biden. >> shepard: certainly was after all of these months. man, that's terrific. bret baier on capitol hill. keeping watch and be around for breaking news as it happens and any new information we get. do i want to get to the important matter of what this means for each and every one of our families. what does this mean for if we need to buy a car, if we need to buy a house? if we need a student loan, on and on and on?
downgrade, shep. >> shepard: rich edson from the fox bills network. thanks. bret baier again this washington. the senate votes tomorrow morning, bret? >> bret: shep, tomorrow at noon. senator reid took to the senate floor and said the motion to concur. the vote will happen at noon. 60 vote threshold needed. no amendments, no points of order. very little surprise here obviously any senator could step up and say something. highly unlikely after this vote in the house. new jersey is the vote eastern time. >> shepard: reid has suggested that he believes all the votes are there, period. >> yes. there will be high profile no votes. he believes that he and the minority leader mitch mcconnell can get this through. >> shepard: one of the biggest surprises of the day, bret, in a day well, we were pretty much out of surprises we thought. was the appearance of congresswoman gabriel giffords, the democrat of arizona there on the house floor. it's my understanding you have some more information about what was to me a secret.
days. bret, give us an idea of these triggers, what they will mean and how they will work. >> shep it, all comes down to joint committee. 12 lawmakers, 6 democrats. six republicans. if they don't get this august passed and but they don't get to the $1.5 trillion in cuts, by the end of the year, they make recommendations by thanksgiving, they have an up or down vote by the end of the year. if it doesn't work, they don't get consensus or the vote fails. it goes into this trigger area. this is essentially a penalty for that joint committee not doing that work. and it is $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts. across the board that includes half of that is defense. by the way, this it looks like it has passed, shep at 224. >> shepard: gabriel giffords is voting right now. that's the applause, listen. [ applause ]
not be there would be gabriel giffords. and it appears to me at least that gabriel giffords may have been the one who cast the vote that put this over the top. there were questions about how many would be there. so that would change the number. i think that's just what happened, bret. >> that's exactly, right, shep. it does look like that. the applause obviously and that story line amazing and puts it in perspective on a vote like this. this is an important vote. and one that took some effort from the house majority whip. the speaker's office. speaker boehner has to feel pleased but there are many people on the left and the right who are not happy with this piece of legislation. that now goes to the senate for a vote tomorrow. >> shepard: bret, fair to say that it was the addition of a balanced budget amendment vote that brought in some of those from the right who were upset about the previous bill. >> it's possible, shep. it was a lot of the front loading of cuts. it was this negotiation about this trigger that we have been