january rioters who stormed the us capitol onjanuary six, rioters who stormed the us capitol on january2021. he capitol onjanuary six, 2021. he said on truth social does the pardon given byjoe to hunter include the january six hostages who have now been imprisoned for years, he says such an abuse and miscarriage ofjustice. that is prime president—elect trump but it is important to note there have been divisions among democratic politicians as to the decision of the president to pardon his son. including the governor of colorado jarrod polis, son. including the governor of coloradojarrod polis, who has written on x, while as a father i understand joe biden �*s natural desire to part help a son by pardoning him as one of his justifications son by pardoning him as one of hisjustifications for son by pardoning him as one of his justifications for doing so i am disappointed he put his family ahead of the country. this is a bad precedent that could be abused by later president and will sadly tarnish his reputation. while president biden made a very clear on numerous occasions earlier this yea

us congressional leadership say jimmy carter will lie in state in the us capitol rotunda for two days before his state funeral, after the former president died at the age of 100. and edinburgh's world—renowned hogmanay new year's eve celebrations are cancelled due to extreme weather forecast across scotland. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. the us government has said a state sponsored actor in china has hacked the treasury department, gaining access to staff workstations. a spokesperson said unclassified documents were also compromised in the attack earlier this month. the treasury said it had worked with the fbi and other agencies to determine the impact of the breach — adding there was no evidence the chinese hackers still had access to treasury information. let's speak to our correspondent rowan bridge, who joins me from washington. hello there to you. just tell us a little bit more about this?- little bit more about this? yes, this is been _ little bit more about this? yes, this is been described - little bit more about this? yes, this is been described as - little bit more about this? y

he asked if the pardon would apply to his supporters who stormed the us capitol on the 6th of januarye. hunter's addiction issues have been well documented. he started drinking as a teenager, acknowledged abusing cocaine as a college student and has been in and out of rehab. in 2013 he signed up for the us navy reserve, but on his very first day he tested positive for cocaine and was discharged. it was reported that he drank excessively after the death of his older brother beau from brain cancer in 2015. and in 2018 he bought a handgun. prosecutors said he lied on the final publication by claiming he was not using drugs at the time. injune of this year, hunter biden became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime. he was found guilty of being an illegal drug use are in possession of a gun. he was found guilty of being an illegal drug user in possession of a gun. in september he admitted tax charges. joe biden has yet to speak about the decision. in a statement he said his son had been singled out and called his case is a miscarriage ofjustice.s a miscarriage o

us congressional leadership say jimmy carter will lie in state at the us capitol rotunda for two dayse his state funeral, after the former president died at the age of 100. and edinburgh's world—renowned hogmanay new year's eve celebrations are cancelled due to extreme weather forecast in the scottish capital. now on bbc news, time to look back at the year in sport. 2024 was an extraordinary 12 months of sport. a year dominated by some of the very biggest showpiece events. we had a men's euros in germany, where england came so close, and a paralympics and olympics in paris, where great britain once again excelled. achievements honoured here at the year—ending bbc sports personality of the year. more on that later. but 2024 was also a year where some of british sport's biggest stars took theirfinal bows. the likes ofjimmy anderson, andy murray, tom daley and laura kenny to name just a few. but the year was also for new, exciting sporting talent. luke "the nuke" littler... and that's where 2024 started. injanuary, the year was young and so too was the headline maker. 16—year—old luke li

he was attacked by a mass shooter who then fled. police suspect it was a target, it murder gave us capitol. havana has been plunged into absolute darkness after the national electricity grid collapsed. the government blames outages to add to the islands largest power plant. it's the latest of several such incidents and recent ones prompted by dwindling oil imports. i'm in an economic crisis. process war against ukraine has expanded to include thousands of north korean soldiers, hypersonic missiles, and suspected hybrid attacks on ukraine's allies. nato foreign ministers have been meeting in brussels to discuss how best to respond to this escalation, which includes the suspect and suffering of communications cables under the baltic fee, continuing support for ukraine and the blocks preparations for the upcoming donald trump presidency has dominated the talk. so far and our correspond, terry schultz walked us through the main outcomes of the 2 day meeting as well as you laid out there. there was really a full agenda, including a visit from king abdullah of jordan, to update for him. minister

and donald trump has spoken out making comparisons to rioters who stormed the us capitol on january sixhe pardon given byjoe to hunter include the january six hostages who have now been imprisoned for years. he says such an abuse and miscarriage ofjustice. that is from the president—elect but important to note have been divisions among democratic politicians, as to the decision of the president to pardon his son. including the government —— governor of colorado who wrote on x while as a father i certainly understand joe biden �*s natural desire to help a son by punching him and that was one of his justifications for doing so he says i'm disappointed he put his family ahead of the country. this is a bad precedent that could be abused by later presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. while president biden made it very clear on numerous occasions earlier this year that pardoning his son is something he would not consider, rathera something he would not consider, rather a dramatic u—turn in the past few hours. thank you very much for that mixjohnson reporting and a live page on the

us congressional leadership say jimmy carter will lie in state in the us capitol rotunda for two dayspresident died at the age of 100. and edinburgh's world—renowned hogmanay new year's eve celebrations are cancelled due to extreme weather forecast across scotland. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. the us government has said a state sponsored actor in china has hacked the treasury department, gaining access to staff workstations. a spokesperson said unclassified documents were also compromised in the attack earlier this month. the treasury said it had worked with the fbi and other agencies

us president—elect donald trump has said he will look at pardons for those involved in the 2021 us capitol in hell," he told nbc�*s meet the press in his first broadcast network interview since winning november's election. the republican also vowed to end automatic citizenship for anyone born in the country, but offered to work with democrats to help some undocumented immigrants who were brought to the us as children. let's get some of the day's other news now. we will have more of what he had to say on business today because he had a lot to say on tariffs and the federal reserve. us media is reporting that rapper and businessmanjay—z, whose real name is shawn carter, is accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13—year—old girl in 2000. the lawsuit reportedly claims that carter assaulted the girl along with sean �*diddy�* combs. in the lawsuit, which was refiled on sunday with carter's name as a defendant, the anonymous accuser said the assault happened after she was driven to an mtv video music awards after—party in new york. in a statement posted, then quickly deleted on instagram, carter

us capitol police. i don't know that everybody in the state until 65 but some would and often times the best cops that you have. >> thank you. >> i want to thank you. we are having our staff holiday party in this room. all your notes will be replaced by eggnog. i am aware of our time limits here but i want to thank you and the officers for your work. a few members might have questions in writing. i am excited to remain on the committee as senator fisher is. we are going to continue to be a part of the management, knowledge will be helpful. i thank my staff, and consistent work over the years. elizabeth farah who is with me, in the way back zone before i was chair, lindsay kerr, gus is nodding his head. i also ones to thank spalding who has done incredible work on our election work and driscoll, our counsel, kristin mullet. same thing. those i have known for quite a while. tammy morrison and casey jones is a great name. thank you to all of them as well as the rules committee staff and the nonpartisan sta

us? capitol now is full of time to go see the security policy analyst, michael miller. it's good to see many things would you want to get on the program this evening. so russia's representatives of the un have. 1 speak global community to unequivocally condemn this terrace hoc, whoever you inefficient is called for restraint, but stop, so as of right condemning the killing of a general career love. what do you make of the stones and the, the, the lack of reaction from any western governments. well, i think because they're, they're involved, they're deeply involved. uh, the one thing that i'm a, and it was a terroristic, there's not absolutely no question about it. so the u. n. was compelled really to say something that signified a condemnation, even even a backhanded combination. but the reality is, is that this, the intelligence services are, as you pointed out, closely tied in with the s b u, the ukranian intelligence service. the one thing i'm a little surprised about is that the us would allow this to happen in an open area where there's a lot of pedestrian and ever

and order, prioritising a tougher criminal justice system, yet is poised to pardon a whole set of us capitolingly in contradiction, but he seems to navigate that just fine. he has a version of political teflon that allows his base to be seemingly impenetrable no matter what contradictions he brings to the table. he has a version of political teflon that allows his base to be seemingly impenetrable no matter what contradictions he brings to the table. and, scott, we've got less than a month to the inauguration. just briefly, what will you be keeping an eye on in washington? there is this particularly narrow us house majority in the lower chamber of us congress, that president—elect trump's party has, where they can lose just one vote on anything of consequence, which means the minority party, the democrats, are going to have some outsized influence in this first two—year set of the trump term. trump's going to have to do deals with democrats to do things like keep the government open, raise the debt ceiling, pass major legislation that requires spending. that's going to come to a head almost

after outgoing senate minority leader mitch mcconnell suffered minor injuries after a fall at the us capitolnister on friday. the announcement follows the collapse of macron�*s government after only three months. the country's former prime minister, michel barnier, was ousted by mps nine days ago. mr barnier lost a vote of no—confidence following a standoff over an austerity budget. now mr bayrou faces the same challenge. he must form a cabinet that can survive a no—confidence vote in a divided parliament and put forward another budget to limit economic turmoil. regulating france's debt is something mr bayrou says is not only a political priority, but a moral obligation. translation: many people were sa in: that translation: many people were saying that we — translation: many people were saying that we don't _ translation: many people were saying that we don't run - translation: many people were saying that we don't run a - saying that we don't run a political campaign on the question of debt. and i strongly believe now more than ever — and we were actually laughing about this before taking

, has said that he intends to pardon many of those who were involved in the insurrection at the us capitolth of january 2021 within hours of taking office. mr trump has taken to calling them thej6 hostages and has said that he believes that many of them do not deserve to be injail. david willis. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. the government has revealed more details about how it plans to turn the uk s electricity grid green by 2030. called the clean power action plan — it includes measures that should make it easier to build on—shore windfarms and also connect new infrastructure to the power grid. the energy and net zero secretary ed miliband outlined his plans on bbc breakfast. i think the british people voted for big change at the general election, naga, and i think we need to deliver it, and that's what this plan is all about. and, you know, we are at the moment at the mercy of the roller—coaster of fossil fuel markets. 0ur gas prices, wherever we get the gas from, are subject to the decisions of petro—states and dictators. and your viewers are seeing it in their

, has said that he intends to pardon many of those who were involved in the insurrection at the us capitol to calling them thej6 hostages and has said that he believes that many of them do not deserve to be injail. david willis. scientists say they've discovered that inter—breeding between neanderthals and early humans was critical to the success of our species. a study suggests that the genes we inherited from neanderthals, we inherited from neanderthals may have helped our ancestors adapt to life away from africa. our science correspondent pallab ghosh reports. our kind evolved into various different types of human, but why were we the only ones to survive? the answer lies in the dna scientists extracted from ancient fossil remains. they show that our species, modern humans, died out several times. so often, we are seeing ourselves, modern humans, as a big story of success coming out of africa 50,000 years ago, moving all over the world, expanding into all kinds of ecosystems and really being the kind of most successful mammal on the planet. but that actually shows that at that time, we

most of the moment sunshine to national airport was head. world health organization had tons of us. capitol? yes. so it was at the terminal waiting to depart, but he's seen in this security camera footage running for his life is the airport is attacked. the syrians have been observing a day of remember and so on of the hundreds of thousands of people who are killed. they'll disappear during decades of dictatorship. crowds also rejoiced on mount high soon, which overlooks the capital syrians and not being allowed to access the mountain since 2011. when civil war broke out. i somehow bought a report from damascus. the show will falls by hey, at the heidi this um or sds, syria's most powerful admitted to faction the provide all the, all my god square, the focal point of pro opposition bodies is a political message to the arrivals. it comes with a delicate moment, violence classes with what the new administration describes as by millions of the post president bus out an asset continue in many cities. the n t administrator says it rested several. see me a minute, 2 offices, and killed a commend

, has said that he intends to pardon many of those who were involved in the insurrection at the us capitolof taking office. mrtrump has taken within hours of taking office. mr trump has taken to calling them thej6 hostages and said that he believes that many of them do not deserve to be in jail. the leading french fashion house chanel has appointed a new creative director in what's described as the hottest role in the industry. the top job has gone to matthieu blazy, the current design chief of italian luxury fashion house, bottega veneta. the high—profile role at chanel has been left vacant sincejune, after the abrupt departure of virginie viard. many say this choice signals a new aesthetic for the privately—owned brand , which is famous for tweed jackets, double—c logos and the iconic no 5 perfume. for more on this, let's speak to sarah ball, she's editor in chief of wsj magazine at the wall street journal. hello, sarah. first off, just tell us about matthieu? tell us about matthieu ? matthieu tell us about matthieu? matthieu is there, but he's had an outstanding run in bottega veneta wh

have been making false claims for years about the capitol riot, arguing that law enforcement officials purposefully bungled their intelligence, even usingd informants to rile up an otherwise peaceful, peaceful rally to create a violent insurrection fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6th. >> three police officers were caught instigating the crowd, chanting and urging them to go into the capitol. >> an fbi informant, who is reported to have, quote his quote. under oath, marched to the us capitol. >> there was antifa and there was fbi. there were a lot of other people there, too, leading the charge. >> so a brand new report from an independent justice department, justice department watchdog concludes this quote. we found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the fbi had undercover employees in the various protest crowds or at the capitol on january 6th. let's bring in former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe to discuss. sir, always grateful to have you on the program. thanks for being here. >> thanks, casey. it's good to be here. >> what is your tak

joining us, capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. we're wondering, everyone is wondering. st. her public pronouncements now seem a lot less skeptical than they did a week ago. what she's saying is she's not necessarily ready to support him but she's supportive of him moving through the process. that means he still appears on capitol hill meeting with senators. you have alaska who could potentially be a skeptical vote on his behalf. and he also is expected to go through a public hearing where he's going to be asked tough questions by republicans and democrats and he's right now in the process of undergoing an fbi background check which is also part of the process as well. it looked as though his nomination was in early peril and the was a possibility he could take an early exit, much like matt gaetz did when he just pulled himself out of the process before the hearings started, it seems those senators, even those that aren't immediately inclined to support him, are willing to give him the opportunity to sit for these interviews, to go through the background checks, and also

we know that in recent weeks we - that in recent weeks we have had the us and capitol and resuming mediationre showing more willingness to make compromises needed to bridge the gaps between the two sides —— we have had the us and qatar resuming mediation efforts. lots of diplomatic and security officials have been coming and going in the past few days and we have had comments from a senior palestinian official who told the bbc this is really a 3—phase plan being looked at, the first phase will last for 45 days and in that stage you would see the remaining civilian hostages, women soldiers too being released from captivity and gaza, a partial israeli troop withdrawal and also some mechanisms so that as place would be able to return home to the north of the strip. the second phase is said to be where you would have the remaining hostages being released and he would also have a further israeli troop withdrawal before the third phase which is where you would see talks to finally end the war and move on to a reconstruction phase. all sites stressing there is a lot more detail to be sorted out her

us. capitol correspondent eytan wallace says more on that policy and what the governor is threatening to do. newsom says that policy is too restrictive and we'll get in the way of effort he says will make oakland. >> safer. we have your back. governor gavin newsom with that message to the people of california as he spoke about his administration's approach to public safety over the last year, he notes his administration allocated more than 250 million dollars in state funding to various law enforcement agencies

it'll be available, i believe, on the us capitol facebook page and.thank you so much. >> in his latest book lbj and mcnamara the dedication reads to those on the wall and their countless vietnamese counterparts, it did not have to happen. he spent numerous hours with robert mcnamara for his book in retrospect. this book describes what happened in the years between 1963 and mcnamara's last day in february of 1968. mcnamara died at the age of 93. >> the vietnam partnership destined to fail with host brian lamb available on c-span now or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> after becoming the longest serving party leader in senate history, mitch mcconnell steps down this week. watch c-span wednesday at 8:00 p.m. as we explore his life and career, views on the senate, leadership and plans for his remaining years in office. our guest is michael tackett, bureau chief of the associated press and author of the price of power. join us for the legacy of mitch mcconnell wednesday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. ♪ >> for over 45 years c-span has been your window

it'll be available, i believe, on the us capitol facebook page and. thank you so much. rosalynn carter do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for president? i do. what was that like? what was that conversation? it was very interesting. we had a friend that wrote and told jimmy that he thought he ought to run for president. well, we couldn't even say the word. that's like my husband is running for. well, i didn't tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. um, and. but then once he decided that he would do it, um, that was when i couldn't. i mean, he could hardly say i'm going to be president. it was just something that was, you know, we'd never, ever dreamed would happen. and, um, but it was exciting. i was excited about it. i had campaigned the whole last year before the governor's race for him and it was hard and amy was a baby, and i didn't like to leave her all the time. um, but i enjoyed it. i mean, i learned so much about our state. we have 159 candidates. i knew the capital of every, uh, county. i knew, i mean

it'll be available, i believe, on the us capitol facebook page and. thank you so much.rosalynn carter do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for

it'll be available, i believe, on the us capitol facebook page and. thank you so much.during his time in office, president jimmy carter and his family attended the first baptist church of washington, d.c. they joined in

us. capitol correspondent eytan wallace says more on that policy and what the governor is threatening to do. newsom says that policy is too restrictive and we'll get in the way of effort he says will make oakland. >> safer. we have your back. governor gavin newsom with that message to the people of california as he spoke about his administration's approach to public safety over the last year, he notes his administration allocated more than 250 million dollars in state funding to various law enforcement agencies to help combat retail theft and unprecedented level of support vertical prosecution and investigations to address the issues. property crime. >> in this state, it's bearing fruit. also bearing fruit, he says, is the statewide california highway patrol organized retail crime task force in 2024 alone. it recovered over 13 million dollars in stolen goods, arrested more than 1400 suspects and conducted 777 investigations. >> he says his decision to add the additional chp patrols and resources to areas he describes as regional hotspots, including bakersfield, bernardino, san francisco

not only that he spreads this sort of insane conspiracy theory that the initial break in to the us capitol was done by leftists disguised as trump supporters. but in this same audio, he also seemingly justifies the actions of those trump supporters by suggesting that their actions were rooted in legitimate grievances about the 2020 election. he himself says here that he thought the 2020 election was rigged. he immediately also attacked those who condemned both trump and and the rioters. he said he didn't like the knee jerk reaction. and this podcast is just four days after that attack on the u.s. capitol. and he said particularly that he saw that these these, these leftists, these antifa members with his own eyes who broke in, who started, not trump supporters. listen to what he said here antifa folks took advantage of this to try to get to the front and try to agitate and create openings for themselves. >> they want chaos, ultimately, but what they really want to do is further the narrative look again. >> and this was four days after the riot. and the thing is, there is there was he could

. >> an fbi informant, who is reported to have, quote this quote. >> under oath, marched to the us capitol there was antifa and there was fbi. there were a lot of other people there, too. leading the charge. >> general honorÉ and many a seed has been planted. is this report too little, too late? then yeah. >> the messaging has already happened. it's been taking a second bite out of the apple, but i think the fbi, if anything, did, really didn't do their job on the eve of one six and leading up to it. and they've just about admitted that. this report also. reported another problem with the fbi in that report. they said it's not their job to provide intelligence for one six. well, that is their job to provide domestic information to law enforcement that could be used in cases like one six. that is a job to monitor, uh, disturbances in the force when you might say from domestic or threats to the united states. that is their job to fight criminals and to look at the threats. and they had a report go to the washington field office. they shared a part of that report with the capitol police intel

let's turn now to cnn's lauren fox, who is live for us on capitol hill. lauren, the reaction to both hunter biden's pardon and trump's selection of kash patel as fbi director has been swift. what are you hearing from lawmakers? >> yeah, brianna, first on kash patel, what you are hearing from a lot of republicans is one step at a time we heard from chuck grassley last night on x saying essentially that kash patel will go through the normal process in the senate. that means a confirmation hearing. that means lawmakers are going to have an opportunity to meet with him, to vet him. but of course, like evan mentioned, this is a very unusual situation given the fact that right now there is an fbi director, christopher wray, who is slated to hold that job for several more years. and this would basically require trump to fire him first, then turn around and nominate someone new. that means that the bar for that new person, a lot of senators are going to have questions. and so you're hearing from democrats a lot of concern. and even from some republicans just warn

so us about a person or the people involved with the state capitol that many of us know that william strickland as architect. but elaborate on this. tell more. yeah. you know, i'm sitting here listening to you, mark, and it's, you know, well, let's plot first. let's keep ourselves in 1844 for a second. i mean, otherwise i can just give you the tour of the capitol building, which is actually here till 2:00 this afternoon. but i was thinking about this is pretty interesting because. in 1834, tennessee has a constitutional convention and the state capital had floated all tennessee had been in knoxville, it had been in murfreesboro, it had been in, of course. and finally, part of that constitutional convention says we have to build ourselves a permanent capital. we have to name ourselves a capital public or a capital city in in the state. general assembly gives gives the gives itself years. it says by 1843, we've got to name name a capital. so 1843, here we are in this election process up for james k polk, 1843, the general assembly selects nashville and it selects it because it was very

senior national reporter for nbc news and joins us live from capitol hill. it seems to me like the ultimate thing that always brings t these to a resolution, everybody wants to get out of town for the holidays, was what ended things here. >> reporter: that is part of p it, quite the turnaround from qu two days of president-elect trump and elon musk blowing up that earlier deal to the house of representatives, passing a slimmed-down version of it. it is very notable the house ve passage of the bill only came after speaker johnson went through several iterations, on plan d, stripped out the single augustine and donald trump had made at the 11th hour, the curveball that he threw, wanted this congress to get the debt limit off his plate so he could come in the office and pursue his agenda including major tax cuts. democrats said, no way they were going to do that, based on them rolling out the red carpet just as he wants to pass a big tax cut that they argue will primarily benefit the wealthy. in that end, trump threatened any republican who voted for a bill wit

host: new yor'c congressman tom suozzi is back with us this morning, joining us from capitol hill. good morning, congressman. guest: hey, john, how are you? host: doing well, sir. from your column in the "long island herald," you write that while almost everyone who voted for vice president kamala harris in my district voted for me come another 20,000 people voted for both me and donald trump. i'm grateful to every voter who supported me, but we need to learn a lesson from those 20,000 ticket splitters. what lessons do we need to learn? guest: first, in the same article, the first line is something along the lines of everyone is asking, you know, how could people vote for donald trump? when instead they should be asking, why did they vote for donald trump? and, you know, the people in my district that supported me while also supporting donald trump, i think, not only do they know me, but they are sick and tired of the extremism, and they know that i reject the extremism. they want us to embrace common sense, and they want us to work across party lines to get stuff done. people are

cbs's nikole killion is going to lead us from capitol hill to explain all that is happening up there.d evening, nikole. all right, where does this bill stand right now? >> reporter: good evening, norah. this has put capitol hill into a tailspin. the spending bill was released 24 hours ago, and now congress says it has collapsed. tonight, chaos in congress, with vice president-elect j.d. vance on capitol hill, telling lawmakers what to do. >> well, what the president believes is we should support a clean cr so long as it contains a debt limit increase. >> reporter: it follows an intense pressure campaign on x by none other than its own ceo elon musk. the billionaire tapped to colead a commission on government efficiency posted nearly 100 times since the early morning hour. he bashed the 1500-page bill as "pork," warning, "this bill should not pass." >> elon and vivek and i are on a text chain together. they understand the situation. they said, it's not directed at you, mr. speaker. we don't like the spending. guess what, fellas? i don't, either. >> reporter: the stopgap measure would k

and he said no. >> manu raju live for us on capitol hill. thank you so much. let's discuss all of this with democratic strategist megan hayes. and republican strategist shermichael singleton. guys, welcome shermichael. we've all been in this town long enough. i'm very young what we've seen over the course of the last 18 hours for the pete hegseth nomination is like the perfect encapsulation of the doom spiral before the end, but we've also seen him fight back today. yeah, and to manu's point, senators aren't coming out and saying we're against him. he's still alive. he is still. can he turn this around? >> his mom did an interview on fox news today. i watched it, i thought it was very compelling. we'll see how the meeting goes with iowa senator joni ernst. i think a lot of republicans are really waiting to see what the senator of iowa says. i think if she says yes, thumbs up, i think he will absolutely move forward and ultimately get confirmed. if, however she says, i'm not really certain, i'm not sure. and megan and i talked about this, i don't know if she'll

joining us with capitol hill insight is gop congressman from my home district by the way back in texas, pat fallon joining us now. congressman, great to see you this morning. what do you think here will happen in the next week or so with speaker johnson? >> i think he'll remain speaker. in november, we had an election and there was no other candidates and all the votes were for mike johnson and i believe we're people of our word and we'll follow through. mike has a great relationship with president trump and went to a ufc fight together and can you imagine paul ryan doing that and he's got a very tough job with a narrow margin and i think we might have to go through a little bit and iron out the wrinkles and i do eventually think we'll get there and not delaying the certification and don't want to see joe biden constitutionally any longer than necessary. will: i did see him at a ufc fight with donald trump and saw himself himself at army navy with president trump and at new york city madison square garden rally with donald trump. that relationship was strong it appears and there's been

cnn's manu raju joins us at the capitol. so i wonder what you're hearing from lawmakers, particularly since steve scalise is now moving away from an option that was at least out there to try to get this passed on a simple majority. >> yeah. look, i, in fact, the speaker of the house just addressed reporters moments ago, and i asked him what is the next plan? and he really didn't have any specifics. he said they were going to regroup. they were going to try to figure out what the next steps were. and he attacked democrats, even though there were republicans also who voted against this plan on the house floor. despite the push from donald trump. now, one big reason why there were republicans who voted and defied donald trump was his demand. trump's demand to suspend the national debt limit for two years. remember, this is something that congress has to typically deal with every so often, but it is expected to be dealt with next year. but donald trump recognized that this will be a complication next year for his agenda. and now

you had 38 republicans who voted against it, so that was a little surprising even for some of us on capitol hill to see that level of republicans. most of them were fiscal conservatives, people who have made, you know, cutting back spending really a hallmark of their congressional careers, a lot of freedom caucus members, but there were some surprising votes in there as well. there was a membership of the leader teal, blake moore, and interesting votes if you're in congress in two years anyway. i think the pig picture here is that there are some moments where there's going to be some willingness to defy trump. i don't think there's going to be a lot of those moments, but there's going to be some clashes between the executive branch and the legislative branch. as far as the primary threats, i was talking to some members on capitol hill this week, and they said guess what, trump can't primary all of us. in the end i think it was 170-something republicans who voted to primary that bill. >> there's strength in numbers. >> reporter: chip roy he was leading the charge on the idea of raising the d

welcome and thank you all for joining us here for this 2024 capitol christmas tree. i'm jim kaufmann and i'm honored to accept this year's tree on behalf of the united states congress. i want to thank the alaskaen forest service and the wrangle district. y'all did a great job finding the perfect tree in the world's largest temperate rain forest. what an experience. this year the tree had quite a journey. it traveled more than 700 miles over the sea and more than 4,000 miles on land. >> i want to extend my gratitude to the capitol grounds crew and they'll have a job to get this 80-foot tall spruce off the truck after its journey and we're delighted to come back in a week to see the lights go on on the tree. it's a year of firsts for the people's tree and not only the first time the tree came from the tongass national forest and things make it fresh and green and bright and green and fresh with no needles falling off and it was harvested with the complete root ball in tact and really innovative i think knewtive tasks to get it across the country. it's a wonderful tradi

chad pergram joining us from capitol hill, again, we always look at the that about the math it?h. we don't know what the magic number is: we don't know who two thirds is. you get to the end of the vote. they do the math in the house chamber and determine whether or not they have gotten two thirds to vote in chamber of this bill. the reason that they are doing it this way is they could not go through the regular process where you go to the rules committee and get a rule out and then put it on the floor. the rule governs how you handle the piece of legislation on the floor. there were some on the rules committee opposed to this piece of legislation. as you can see on the board right now. there was briefly a democratic yea. a sole one. the democratic leadership catherine clark, the democratic whip, against this bill. she surging a no vote. and usually sometimes when you see one anomaly like that that is just a mistake. somebody actually went in and switched their vote or changed their mind. it's just a mistake. they hits the wrong button on the machine inside the house chamber: the

cnn's manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. and so far, manu. republican senators at least publicly, seem to be supporting hegseth. >> yeah, a lot of them are, jake. >> but remember, there's little margin for error. >> assuming that all democrats vote against this nominee in the new congress, it will be 5347, meaning that just four republican senators breaking ranks on a party line vote could scuttle this nomination. and there are concerns among a lot of them. in fact, just moments ago, senator lindsey graham, a close ally of president elect donald trump, said that the accusations are, quote, disturbing and said that the confirmation prospects for hegseth will be, quote, difficult going forward. and senator joni ernst someone who has actually been a survivor of sexual assault, said that she has going to have some frank conversation later this week with hegseth. she is notably undecided about this nomination. i caught up with a number of republican senators today about this, and some are demanding more information including a full background chec

ali vitali joins us from capitol hill. what do we know? >> reporter: you likened it to the nightmare before christmas. happens to be my favorite movie. at the end of that movie they pull off christmas, but maybe there's a little bit of that energy. right now they need it. the speaker is saying we'll see, maybe we have a plan. in the last hour or so as our team has been standing outside the speaker's office, the members seem to disagree whether or not they're at a fully baked plan that's ready to be voted on or if they need time to haggle and put it together. that's the open question. they can't move on to the floor. they don't have anything to vote on yet. that's where the speaker stands. there's an unclear picture of what the other options could be. we know that plan b was a paired down version of plan a. you just ticked through the differences. plan c, it's unclear that gop leadership has the ability to take things out like the debt ceiling negotiation which is a sticking point for democrats, but it's also the thing that trump and musk v

and you also see that the historical profiles that we use in capitol market, that we use for for strategic allocation when we review that they're in line with what we've been underwriting. so let's move to page 10. and what we're trying to show here, two messages, first what you see is the compound return here over 20-year annual eyesed compound return. the blue line is for sfers total line and the gray line is for public tensions that are greater than one billion in assets. and the and the yellows and reds are public equivalent. and you will see that still not delivering the 7.2 percent. that we would like to achieve. you will see that the sfers over the years, performed and delivered about the 7.2 percent discount rate, that is one message. and the second message is that there is still even with sfers alpha or out performance of sfers as well as the simple market portfolio, there is been multiple period prolong periods when we were below 7.2. here's the sfers and again the gray line is the public pension over 1 billion and this is over three years. it concludes 2022, when boss, equity an

us safe. at the same time have to be polite in. often times under a fair amount of stress in the capacity for self-control and self-discipline i see everyday among the capitololice is quite admirable. int know how much that means you senator klobuchar is senator fischer. when she talks to us, amy i've had several discussions about capitol police but that is literally top of mine and her concerns. it's really quite thrilled to be sitting in this chair and see public servants who work hard have to endure a lot of difficult challenges do it well and consistently. so thank you madam chair and vice chair thank you very much for your work break works all right, thank you. thank you, senator welch serving such a great mentee and getting on all five committees so we have this huge power no one schedules both of our committees at once anymore because really it's not one but it's two. with that we turn it over to you chief manger think of your leadership. >> i want to thank you chairman chairmanklobuchar ranking member for your leadership. i have practiced my remarks five times a day i'm always kind of right at the edge of my time i'm going to completely go off scrip