we knew him as our friend byron.o us for authorities calling him a cold-blooded killer. kate snow: it would be an uphill battle in the court of public opinion, thought prosecutors. they knew they had the burden of proof. i've tried a lot of murder cases, and this one in particular seemed like a real challenge. why? because a lot of people thought we'd lose it. a lot of people saw this as a referendum on whether it's ok to protect your property and protect your life. you don't see it that way? not this case. not these facts. kate snow: but to prove murder in the first degree, the state would have to show that byron acted not just with excessive, unreasonable force, but also with premeditation. and while the defense may have had a lot of townspeople on its side, the prosecution had something else. a piece of evidence they felt would sway any juror to see byron smith not as a fearful victim, but as a calculating killer. did byron tell investigators that he had made audiotapes? no, he did not. craig melvin: coming up. th

a lot of social media back and forth, byron. your thoughts as we wait to hear these speeches, what this moment means, and kind of what it means for the agenda -- and also for the democrats, who are kind of licking their chops come i think come about this slim majority and maybe things they can do or not do. >> well, republicans narrowly averted the specter of speaker jeffries again, but this is actually a triumph for mike johnson. he had a majority in which he could only lose one vote and still win, and that is what he did so that was pretty impressive. as i was saying before, i think it is a trump affect, and more trump influence being exercised behind-the-scenes, so i think that was a very big part of this, indication of the president's wishes in this, and also a reminder that republicans really should have won more seats in the last election. this is not going to get any easier going forward, doing some legislation, and it will call on the president's ability to call some of those democrats who have been more open to him than

is that byron donalds back there. stand up byron. what a future this one has. what a future.ry much. how about lutnick. he's going to take in more money than any country has ever thought about. we're going to sign some orders right now. that's really what i want to do. so we're going to sign executive orders. first, i'll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history. not one of them. the worst. anybody that would allow millions of people to pour through our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, gang members to be taken off the streets of venezuela and deposited in our country and many, not just venezuela. crime in venezuela is down the previous administration. all over the world, they're emptying their prisons into our country. they're emptying their mental institutions into our country. it stops as

we are learning the truth about the coup against him byron just alluded. to say and the cover-up that actually preceded it. first senator coons let it slip about who orchestrated the takedown when he was asked about jill biden's feud with pelosi. >> said, quote, it was disappointing. you know that joe biden is very care 68 with how she uses her words. what did you make of that moment. this she may well have wished that speaker pelosi had engaged directly with them rather than orchestrating a campaign to try and get president biden to step down from the race. >> laura: but it wasn't just pelosi. today the "new york times" revealed that chuck schumer delivered the final blow or dagger to pres biden's re-electn hopes after biden bombed the debate, schumer took as it something of a gift and he used as it a catalyst for the conversation with the president. two weeks later, he took a four hour drive from new york to see biden. we covered this, and rehearsed out loud, i guess in the car, what he was going to say? i know schumer reportedly told the president that

byron donalds and claudia tenney. welcome back.friends and democrats are not controlling the governor. >> didn't see all that in the ways and means meeting and he was very good and poised and hoe answered the questions fairly and trying to attack them personally and secretary of defense and looking forward to having him confirmed and looking forward to january 20th like never before. it's been an exciting day. and. larry: did you cut taxes today? >> we're trying and trying to get the tax cuts and jobs act renewed, we're fighting the democrats on that too. larry: there we go. byron, good to see you and happy new year to both of you. >> happy new year. larry: byron, on this point, i thought hegseth was brilliant. his knowledge of the job and knowledge of soldiers and his knowledge of combat warfare was incredible and i thought the democrats, they don't understand that they're not controlling the government anymore. no white house or house or senate and they don't have the policy. they were at war with hegseth and, you know, not china

from senator kevin cramers with derrick van orden and we have house majority leader steve scalise, byrononalds and claudia tenney. but first, pete hegseth shined today. that is the subject of the riff. pete hegseth shined today in his 4 hu hour plus hearing to pe become secretary of defense, talking about his mission to restore warrior eths on to pentagon. >> when president trump chose me for this position primary charge he gave me to bring warrior culture back to the department of defense, he like me wants a pentagon laser focused on lethality, meritocracy, war fighting accountability and readiness. he believes, i agree, that time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm, a change agent. >> rather than another but c bureaucrat or high ranking general, mr. pete hegseth would be a soldier emphasizing his dust to boots experience in battlefield. >> i have led troops in combat, i have been on patrol for days, i pulled trigger down range, heard bullets wiz by, called in close air support, pulled out dead bodies. and knelt before a battlefield cross. this is not academic for me. this i

and byron york.appy new year, byron, the bidens on the way out. on the way out, the last vestiges of weaponization and lawfare and jack smith, and merrick garland. i can't read it in the morning it is either too compcomical or aws awful or stupid, don't they know they have been voted out of office. >> you may want to skip news reports tomorrow when donald trump is scheduled to be sentence in manhattan alvin bragg case, the last gasp, we know judge merchan wants to do this for symbolic reincreasons, there is no sentence he could enforce. the final act, in this act of lawfare, the president will begin appealing it, after that. but, you know, i think what is extraordinary, this appapplies to law ma lawfare, we have seen a change in last 5 weeks, a lot of excesses of wokeness and anti-trump have been fading a little bit, maybe they will come back in full string, i don't know. but they have been fading for last 5 weeks. >> you know, charlie hurt, go to this donald trump, putting his or beginning to put hi

i don't want to get into the deliberative process. >> byron. so now we're supposed to believe because he thinks we're stupid. we're supposed to believe that he really wasn't on board with these border policies, and he was made to do all this stuff. is that what we're supposed to get from this? >> well, he sees himself headed to the hall of infamy for secretaries of homeland security. certainly. and, you know, actually, joe biden recently said that when he, joe biden took office, illegal border crossings plunged, when in fact, the opposite happened. they skyrocketed. so, look, i think we're going to see a lot of revisionist history, particularly about the border. and you will hear mayorkas, you'll hear biden, you'll hear everybody saying that illegal crossings were just plunging when he left office. they were at their lowest point since whenever when they left office and not pay any attention to the 10 million or so illegal and unvetted border crossers who were mostly allowed to stay in the united states. >> well, alex and byron, this will be a

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keith self voted for byron donalds. we saw mike johnson and ralph norman and keith self walk off the floor of the house a few minutes ago. we have been playing with the math here. what is the latest in area you came up with? guest: to be speaker, you need more votes than anyone else, which is what johnson has. johnson needs an absolute majority of votes cast for a named visual. -- individual. because everyone has voted for a named individual, johnson needs 218 votes. if those three republicans, one of them decides i will vote for johnson but the other two cannot bring themselves to do it, but one of the two does not vote, votes present, the denominator changes and johnson needs 217, not 218. host: if one votes for johnson, one votes present. guest: one votes present and the other, probably tom massey votes for a third candidate. because that third person voted present, johnson needs 217 and he would be elected speaker. host: the camera has been following ralph norman, republican of south carolina. the gentleman bent ove

stuart: florida congressman byron donalds joins me now.my question, congressman: you put it all together in one big bill, doesn't that that raise the danger of it not passing? because you can't satisfy everybody. >> well, i mean, look, to be blunt with you, one bill, two bill, i don't really care. it's really about the details. yes, there's some concern about if it's all in one package, can you get everything done in a timely fashion, and we have some other pressure points. you have appropriations that are going to be going on not just over the next month or so because we have to address the government funding deadline on march 14, but again on september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. and then you also have the debt ceiling which we are going to have to to address at some point over the next couple of months. so there's a lot of back and forth on that. as far as as far as i'm concerned, let's get the details of what the entire agenda look like and are agreed to on patient, and then we can talk about where it's one big, beautiful bill or

bring in our panel byron york chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner."hew continetti fellow at the american enterprise institute. bee spend a lot of time talking to victims though are trying to put together their life. what is left. and 10 people have died. but there is -- there is going to be a lot of fallout politically and in those communities about what happened and didn't happen. >> absolutely, bret. after hurricane katrina hit new orleans we often forget there was huge political shakeups in louisiana. new orleans lost population. all political geography changed in that state and city. i expect something to happen similarly to los angeles and to california. you know, disasters do happen and we can't predict them. what we can do is make sure our politics are right so that we're in the best position to deal with them and to recover from them. when you look at some of the conversations we have been having about california's forest management, about its water management, about its insurance markets. about basic competence, i think you can draw a direct

is that byron? stand up, byron. stand up. what a future this one as. what a future.ome money. we have many others. we are going to sign some orders right now. that's really what i want to do. so we are going to sign an executive order. first i will revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, maybe one of the worst -- not one of them, the worst. any one that would allow millions of people to pour over our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, gang members taken off the streets of venezuela and deposited in our country. crime in venezuela is down 74% because they took their criminals and gave them to us through an open border policy of the previous administration. all over the world, they are and seeing their prisons and mental institutions into our country -- they are emptying their prisons and mental institutions into our country. it stops as of one :00 this afternoon, ok? so i am revoking nearly 80 destructive, radical executive actions of the previous administration. they will all be melon v

is that byron donalds back then? a standout byron. >> want a future? this one had. a lot of future. >> great. byron, thank you very much. in. how about let nick secretary of commerce. he's going take in more money. and then country has ever even thought about. it's going to take him some money. and we have many others like i'm not going to go through, but we're going to sign some orders right now. that's what i want >> so it is signed executive orders for so revoke nearly 80 destructive in red ago. executive actions of the previous administration. one of the worst administration in history may be and not one of them. >> the worst. anybody that would allow millions of people to pour through our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane. asylums gang members to be taken off the streets of venezuela and deposit it and our country and many notches venezuela. you know, crime in venezuela is down. 74% because they took their criminals and gave him us. >> through an open border policy of the previous administration. all of the world, the emptying their priso

byron, thank you for doing this. >> great to be here with you, larry.of course be in attendance. and not one that's nowhere to be seen. larry: i love that he began out with that and this will be the beginning of the golden era. i love that. i was interested in a sort of what i call teddy roosevelt theme, american vigor, american tough goes with america first but also goes with stop messing with our panama canal, china, okay, and chinese influence throughout and of course the gulf of america. so there's a lot of foreign policy content. >> there is, and it's par for people that may not know the monroe doctrine and something where america said anything in our hemisphere needs our attention and we should be focused on it. we have gotten away from monroe doctrine for some time and donald trump is focusing on that again and it'll be important for the security of our nation but also with bringing so much manufacturing and not just to america but other nations in the hemisphere to make the supply chains easier for the american people easier supply chains for bu

now we're joined by alderman byron sigcho-lopez. he represents ward 25 on the chicago city council.sir, thank you so much for being with us. talk to us about how you have seen and heard your constituents being impacted by the enforcement actions over this weekend thank you for boris for the invitation. >> and we we've seen a really long week for many chicagoans. this week has been has felt like an eternity given the weight of the federal government coming not to help chicagoans feel safer, but to create panic and chaos. as we heard from the reporter, we're seeing a secret service coming to target the schools, the the panic that is to bring the immigrant immigration czar, so-called. uh, with doctor phil, even in creating this as a as some sort of reality show, playing with the real fear of students, children, families who are terrified by the misinformation, by the threats of mass deportation. now they're saying that this is a targeted surgical procedure, quote, unquote. but the fear that we see by students, by children, by families, by our neighbors, it is uncalled for. the unconsci

stuart: congressman byron donalds, congressman from florida joining me now., any chance of getting help from the democrats on a real big scale on trump's big, beautiful bill? >> i think so, actually. here's why. everything that president trump has been talking about on the campaign trail obviously focused on the american people, securing our border and actually having a way to repatriate people back to their home countries and making sure the department of defense has the resources it needs to shift our fighting force into the future, which is desperately needed. we're going to have to deal with debt ceiling and there's going to have to be mandatory spending reforms and cuts from bloated overspending of joe bind, make no mistake. the biden era covid funding has to be pulled back and very expensive for us. if not impossible to finance that as a nation into the future. then you have his tax policy, energy dominance policy, here in the united states. these are things that democrats should be working with us on. i understand it, all of them are not going to come

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[laughter] brian chief washington correspondent fox news contributor byron york.s like pete is going to sail through at this point. do you see anything that contradicts that statement? >> no, i don't. i think that hegseth's really strong performance yesterday really united republicans behind me -- behind him. and i have to say some of the questioning at that hearing, particularly by senator kaine, the democrat from virginia who was hillary clinton's running mate in 2016 some of the ugliest questioning i have ever seen in a senate confirmation hearing. i think the question maybe from the hegseth hearing is whether democrats are going to try that with anybody else. certainly might with the more controversial i don't think we will see that going in front of the senate today. >> brian: pam bondi, sean ratcliffe, credit wright, russell vought. people pointing out bondi two days of hearings. you think they will go for her and try to look at her florida record? where is she vulnerable in their eyes? >> i think she could face some of the tougher questioning of the group t

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byron, thank you very much. congratulations.t's easier on your family too as a governor. >> he would have to move total what sigh. >-- to tallahassee.>> it's bf year. >> we're working out the family's programs here. >> they solved everything. >> are a seminole. >> i'm old flood ' blooded all the way. >> coming up on 9:15 here in washington, d.c. and a fox news alert. three israeli hostages are set to be returning home as that cease fire agreement between israel and hamas is finally taking effect. >> chief foreign correspondent trey yingst joins us live from tel aviv. trey, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hey, guys. after 470 days of war, the second cease fire agreement in the conflict went into effect this morning. we are following these minute by minute updates here in hostage square in tel aviv just a few moments ago there were cheers throughout this square because people could see on the local news that the red cross was headed into gaza to start the transfer of these three israeli hostages. the entire country glued to tel

here to weigh in is fox news contributor, byron york. byron, well . >> good morning.ght. he is running the show now. >> he's been running the show for a while. you know, it happened when they went over to paris for the opening of notre dame -- steve: right. >> -- and the world leaders started treating donald trump like the president of the united states. and he has been effectively the president since then. steve: and, you know, we've seen a bunch of democrat tech moguls lining up as well because they're e senator if business people. it's like, okay, he's going to be president for four year, i've got to work with him. >> they tend the get really good seats at inaugurations. [laughter] it's the zuckerberg, bezos and musk, three richest men in the world are all going to be together at the inauguration. steve: and this afternoon the m starts at 3:00 over at capital one. some of the speakers include upcoming president. donald trump's going to talk, j.d. vance is, elon musk, hulk hogan, dana white and charlie kirk as well. >> the last time we saw hulk hogan pulling off his

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edward: joining us now, florida congressman byron donalds. the speech was really putting the world on notice that the u.s. is open or if business, but also the united states will not be taken advantage of anymore. have we seen a shift now in global power over the past 77 hours? >> we absolutely have. i think for the vast majority of the american people it's the about damn time. we have seen year after year, decade after decade where terrible trade deals and weak with politicians have ceded our sovereignty and our economic strength to other countries around the world. and donald trump is coming in and saying, enough of that. america's going to be dominant, it's going to be number one. and i think that the faulty logic, frankly, in the democratic party but then also a with some republicans has been that if every other country can rise even if it means america has the stagnate or slightly decline are, it's better for everybody. but that's not the way the real world works. the way the real world works is somebody's got to be the leader. somebody'

[applause] is that byron donalds back there? stand up byron. stand up. what a future this one has., byron. thank you very much. how about lutnick? secretary of commerce. he is going to take in more money than any country has ever even thought about. he is going to take in some money. and we have many others. look, i'm not going to go through it. but we're going to sign some orders right now. and that's really what i want to do. we're going to sign executive orders, first i will revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history. maybe the -- not one of them. the worst. anybody that would allow millions of people to pour through our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions and insane asylums, gang members to be taken off the streets of venezuela and deposited in our country and many -- not just venezuela. you know crime in venezuela is down 74%. because they took their criminals and gave them to us. through an open border policy of the previous administration. [crowd boos] all over the world

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massie voting for emmer, self byron donalds, norman for jim jordan. those are the three and there will be pressure likely on them as we get ready for a second ballot. sandra? >> sandra: absolutely. bret, karl, if you could standby with us, karl, we are checking in with chad pergram on what he is learning. chad? >> they are kind of any stasis in the house of representatives and what i am told is there going to go to a second ballot. by rule that is what they're supposed to do. there could be circumstances where they would recess the house and come back at 4:00 or 5:00, but what i am told is there going to go onto a second ballot. we talked about the three members elect, remember they are not sworn in just yet, we talk about these members-elect, i had a rather lengthy interview with ralph norman yesterday who is going to meet with speaker johnson and said he would make his announcement today asked her how he felt about mike johnson, and i said waiting minute, what are you looking for here? he said i am looking for certain types of promises and certain d

byron, i've chronicled many of these hill battles, but on this one the numbers kept changing.3 at one point. did you find it confusing to cover at times? this. >> absolutely. i mean, there were moments when everybody on the air at fox was trying to figure out what was going on, and it was -- howard: me too. [laughter] >> -- that difficult for everybody, and this was, by far, the closest ever. we've had close ones before but not like this. howard: well, my initial reaction when donald trump explicitly endorsed mike johnson who was the compromise if choice to keep the gavel was this'll be a slam dunk, it's over. and yet you had all these people who didn't vote at first and so forth, and you reached a point where the president-elect was making calls that the day to wavering members, at one point interrupting his golf game. >> that's what made the difference. i mean, if you look back just a couple of years ago, january 2023, to the ordeal that kevin mccarthy went through to be with speaker, there were 15 ballots, it took 4 days. if the same thing happened today, we'd still be in t

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is that byron donalds back there? stand up byron, stand up. what a future this one has. a lot of future. that's great byron, thank you very much. and how about lutnick? secretary of commerce. he's going to take in more money than any country has ever even thought about. he's going to take in some money and we have many others. look, i'm not going to go through it, but we're going to sign some orders right now. and i'm that's really what i want to do. so we're going to sign the executive orders first. i'll revoke nearly 80 destructive and radical executive actions of the previous administration, one of the worst administrations in history. maybe not one of them. the worst. anybody that would allow millions of people to pour through our borders from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, gang members to be taken off the streets of venezuela and deposited in our country, and many, not just venezuela. you know, crime in venezuela is down 74% because they took their criminals and gave them to us through an open border policy of the previous administration. all o

everybody knows he's guilty, including republicans like mike johnson, thom tillis and byron donalds. and where thom tillis is wrong with that analogy. and here he's exactly right. we're going to hear other republicans do it. donald trump pardoned violent offenders who remain violent today, who remain a threat today. joe biden pardoned people who were trying to protect democracy or protect our public health or his family members. and look, i go to the bible on this one where it says, where your treasure is, there your heart is also. sure, joe biden pardoned his family members because he loves his family members. we can question him on that. absolutely fine. donald trump pardoned violent insurrectionists who tried to keep him in office, subvert the will of the people and subvert our democracy. that is a reflection of who donald trump is and a reflection of the support of byron donalds, mike johnson, thom tillis and every leading republican who supports him. >> i wish we had more time. i'm so sorry, joyce. i'm going to have to. oh, you you have to come back and we're going to have you s

byron donalds wants to run for governor in florida. he has run for a bunch of different other things, and hasn't exceeded internally in the house conference. i'm skeptical that either of those are real alternatives. this to me is more about showing opposition, registering opposition to johnson, more than it is about the names mentioned and perhaps they're trying to get concessions. i talked to norman yesterday, and he said he wants things like use of the so called suspension, so kind of maneuvering is going on behind closed doors. there is a scramble behind the scenes to try to get this thing. >> i want to bring you back in. it's a technicality because to those of us just watching, it's like stop the vote, but the reality is the first ballot is still technically open, correct, because they have not gavelled it, so if that's the case, how would they proceed to wrap this one up? would they call a vote of two people, would the clerk call this again? a vote could be changed? could it go quickly? >> reporter: the shortest possible answer to

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so byron prepares the list for approval. then byron sends the list to the third party, the firm, and then the firm. based on that list, invoices byron based on that list. and then we make the payment based on that invoice. gotcha. and the department receives all of the materials submitted by byron to the firm and provides oversight across the entire process. that's right, that's right. so in the example, using the business example and using the previous item, the agenda item asc will tell us, look, these projects save this much energy. therefore they're eligible for this much incentives. and this is the project the business. this is the amount to pay. we look at that list, we do our field inspections. we do our qa, qc for the invoice. and then we say to the third, the other third party e-commerce frontier, look, these projects are ready to go. we approve it. here's the list. invoice us please. thank you for clarifying. of course. thank you. i'll also follow up questions. so will the grant amount across five years distribute

would not expand to the east, and when is the nato countries not that ex, funding to dazed with the byron enticement of the key of government to join the repeating union event. the contest ations applied a totally different kind of that context is important for us to appreciate in order to understand what is now being caught up the rise of the involvement of ukraine on even russia in the african continents. the most important thing that's happened recently in print defend default is when the government of molly accused ukraine direct that there was supporting inside agencies in mali. and that they were being used to fight a proxy will in russia. and i remember the, the best set out of ukraine was actually summoned into bama cool by the administration of a to be great. and there was told that if you don't stop participating in the insurgency in molly, then we are going to expand you and going to see but diplomatic ties. and they are quite a number of occasions in visiting god. and it must be understood once to gain in context, the russian involvement in many of these conflicts is seen to b

for more unless a spring in bayreuth york fox news contributor, byron thanks for being here. you. when it comes to this at trial, the american public got to see this thing play out every day. every network was covering the details live every minute, every hour for the got to see the facts of the case for the still elected donald trump he swept every single battleground state. what does that say to you? >> you have just given donald trump's latest and most powerful argument to throw this whole thing out but basically what trump is saying now judge merchan is a county judge in a state does not have the authority to burden and sentence the president of the united states. it does not work that way. you just heard greg say formally, legally trump needs to be sentenced to be formerly known as a convicted felon. there are couple of possibilities trump one just for the whole thing out for the prosecutors originally said why don't we delay the sentencing until after trump is president in 2029? that way it will be hangover said the whole time he was president of the united states but t

. >> bill: byron york joins us now. good morning. read a line from "politico." you can tell us how you interpret this. the headline. trump's d.o.j. already feels like a wholesale politically inspired demolition. the quote. it feels like a non-violent war. it's just wild. everybody is sitting ducks these days and these people have no power or control of the situation. people are just in a state of shock and devastated. it is unlike anything i've ever seen. the question is it retribution or the right move under trump 2.0? >> as far as these jack smith lawyers are concerned, this is an absolutely unique, unprecedented situation. until very recently, these lawyers were working to indict, to try, convict and imprison the current president of the united states. and they were privy to the legal strategies of the prior administration to do that. it's an extremely weird situation and it seems really kind of a prudent idea that they should actually leave given what has gone on. now, david spunt just suggested there will be a civil service fight and they are going to treat

>> honestly, keith is a good friend and so is byron donald's. the fact of the matter is we've got to get 218 votes to pass any major legislation. president trump and speaker johnson and quite frankly majority leader there and mac need to work together or we can't get anything done. the american people made it very clear, 5 million more americans voted for republican candidate for congress than they did democrats. so we need to take our campaign rhetoric and, you know, ruto per the american people. >> trace: when you talk about pressure, foxnews.com wrote the following, "trump on the phone to work out the holdouts" going on to say two people who spoke with fox news digital said representative nancy mace connected trump with -- by phone after they voted against johnson. it sounds like the most pressure here came from the very top. there was a lot of pressure from within but the big pressure might have gone from the top. what do you think? >> being that the county is represented by both myself and keith, i think there was a lot of pressure from the

this religious experience to evoke this kind of feeling of a higher purpose pressure in the wordpress byron to fly up there is no watch. it is on their side board is not on their side. 6 we will not go to the nights we will find we are making our lives and we are checking them twice. and we are finding out who is the enemy of american people that are creating the oppression in this country. the people that are involved with tearing down our freedoms, our liberties, and the value of what we hold dear in this country, need to be placed on the list. they have to be put on these list. they have to be put out of our society altogether and never be trusted again. now, if someone ends up attacking these people that have been found to be an enemy of the united states and their criminals, and i'm not gonna shed a tear about it. i mean when i left the military, i was a hard core republican that was a libertarian. like a lot of people in the military. but i was looking at like, i can't even calm documentaries, but these youtube videos like, uh, movies like guys you have better wake up and understand t

. >> well, byron, this was a heinous attack in one of the most lively areas for tourists in the uniteds. behind me is the iconic bourbon street. and that is where this suspect drove several blocks, plowing into dozens of people at a time. you can see the coroner's van still there. fbi investigators are on the scene, and they brought in those floodlights because they expect that they are going to continue to be here investigating overnight. and especially concerning is the fact that there are still tens of thousands of people around the french quarter for new year's and for the sugar bowl, and the fact that it's potentially coconspirators in this attack who are on the run. this new year, starting in tragedy. at least 15 dead and dozens injured after police say a man intentionally plowed his car into a crowd in the busy french quarter of new orleans on bourbon street. >> we heard a pop, pop, pop, pop sound, followed by a sound that sounded like a fireworks going off. >> he was hell bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did. >> for those people who don't believe in objective

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and i want to remind everyone, touching on what byron donald said, every committee in the history of congress is appointed by the speaker and minority leader. the majority party appoints their members. the minority party appoints their members. kevin mccarthy appointed good members to that committee. but but nancy pelosi rejected them because she knew they would be truthful and they wouldn't go along with the false narrative that the media and the democrats were trying to create about donald trump. so she kicked jim jordan and jim banks off and put liz cheney and adam kinzinger on there, who would just go along with all the fake propaganda that the democrat national committee and their friends in the left wing media were spouting out. >> all right, congressman, i'm going to ask all three of you. so we're going to start with congressman jackson. he gets to go first. again, you're about 15 hours away from a speaker vote. how are you going to vote on that speaker vote? and i mean by my count, there's like five house members who aren't going to vote for speaker johnson. and that's going

and keith self voted for byron donalds. and keith self, who is about to start, i think his sophomore term. and norman have now officially changed their votes after this, after some negotiation, presumably. so i stand corrected. you were correct. speaker johnson did win on the first ballot. barely, barely, barely. >> but it barely matter. a win's a win. a w is a w, and this was this is tough. and what we saw is the last vote was was voiced around 1:40 p.m. here we are 50 minutes later with a lot of back back room negotiating to get the final deal done. >> yes. no. i mean, compared to what we saw with speaker mccarthy, this is a this is a landslide victory. 218 to 215 what's done is done. and speaker johnson is there, although i have to say and i'm sure he's he's rejoicing. this was a muscle flexing of a minority of the party of the republican party. nine members demonstrating to speaker johnson, we can take you down if we want to. according to the new house rules, and we can make your life very difficult. please pay attentio