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Congressional republicans are already saying weisss new status makes him a Fire Wall InsulatingPresident Biden and his Justice Department and could actually impede congressional efforts to get to the truth. Look into that. Also tonight, the Justice Department has moved to officially dismiss the now defunked plea deal with the president s son. Correspondent dazed spunt has the details from the Justice Department. Good evening, david. Reporter bret, good evening to you. The legal jeopardy for the president s son only deepens now that this case has Special Counsel status, and we can say tonight that it appears hunter biden is headed for t ....
joining me live from capitol hill is fox senior correspondent chad pergram. chad anything surprise you? we expected it to pass but by this margin? pete, it was a robust vote for a bill that no one liked, a bipartisan coalition from both parties supported the bill, but more democrats supported the bill than gop members. 149 republicans voted yes, 165 democrats voted yes. house minority leader hakeem jeffries touted democratic support for the bill. earlier today, 29 house republicans voted to default on our nation s debt and against an agreement that you negotiated, extreme maga republicans attempted to take control of the house floor. democrats took it back. the bill now goes to the senate. conservatives are criticizing the bill there. mike lee and rand paul want the senate to consider an alternative. rather than offering substantive solutions toss tackle the root causes of our fiscal woes, it appears to be a p paltive pill. it s a bad look for membering, an advo ....
covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that s a change from what you ve heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let s go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters ....
Meeting and they re going to say, look, let s cut back. next year what do you say we only spend $91,000. it s nutty. and it puts everything in jeopardy. bret: a lot of people have seen your ad, number different channels, and the plan that it talks about is a two percent plan. explain that. $0.02. well, right now the government goes out of its way to spend every penny in the budget every year. they start in april to make sure they re broke at tend of the year. i say they have to change the way they re doing business and freeze the budget and cut $0.02 of every dollar of discretion area spending. in fact we are going to bonus the management on doing just that. that way we re in a position where we encourage savings instead of trying to make sure we re broke every single year. and, let s face it, some of the things we do are ridiculous. to hire an extra 87,000 irs agents? absurd. when we take a look at the money that is spent, it almost makes me sick. and we have the greatest country ....
Majority. that unfortunately has been damaged badly or perhaps destroyed, i think we have to look now to kevin and see what his next move is to see if that can be recovered. the violation was what specifically? well, there were specific terms about, that he would be committed to reducing discretion area spending to the 2022 levels, that didn t occur in its entirety in this bill. and, furthermore, although we spent all these months having conferences and staying in touch across the conference to keep people in the loop, here kevin went off, for the first time, to do a negotiation on his own and without notice, not only did he double the amount of debt the nation would incur before we get into the negotiation again, he abandoned that core ten enof the agreement. and so that, the very least that was necessary. are you saying today you will would you support, based order what you know right now do you support kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house? well, there s a question th ....