candidates throwing their hat into the ring. stay there. i want to bring in cnn s one and only senior data reporter and talk about the numbers complicating mccarthy s life beyond the raw head count. why does mccarthy have so little room for error? look historically at potential first time speakers, anderson. he has 222 republican seats, right? if you look at the last few speakers, people who went on to be speaker they had a lot more seats in their majority. they had a lot more room for error. kevin mccarthy can only lose four seats. you have to go all the way back to 1931 to find a speaker who had less room for error, john nance garner back in 1931 so basically talking about a guy who isn t all that popular among his caucus. on top of that has such little room for error. if you can only lose four votes what does the math look like? so essentially we ve been outlining this. it is all a math game. what we know right now if he can only lose four votes there are
politically in the environment. i don t know if i would, you know, get an opportunity to serve for four more years. i would never imagine i would win by almost 11 points, and come in with a whole new legislature. and remember, governor whitmer was resounding glee with republican trump back to her dickson, and the democrats also won the majority in the state legislature, giving women s party control over the governor s mansion and them capital for the first time in nearly 40 years. now, one of the main priorities that governor whitmer plans to get done with that majority is repealing estate law from 1931, banning abortion. that would follow the victory for abortion rights won in november when michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment, creating the right to reproductive freedom. and of course, the reason that abortion was such a driving issue in the midterms in michigan, and across the country, it s because donald trump and the republican parties successful efforts to
is, 222. the smallest majority since 1931 for a potential first-time speaker. so he has much smaller room for error. you spoke about paul ryan, 245. that s way, way more. it also doesn t have to be a member of the house. it doesn t. i know that s crazy. but it doesn t. we ll see what happens. but the fact is kevin mccarthy still has a lot of problems. thanks for the math help, harry. this morning, president biden facing a new year with a new divided government, planning to kick things off with a message of partnership as he s joined by republicans to tout the massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure law that he signed in 2021. arlette saenz is live in st. croix where biden is about to wrap up his vacation. look at it, it s so gorgeous there. an optimistic live shot, assignment because it s so beautiful there. but an optimistic message.
life, born into relative pollock poverty in new york in 1931, no connection with sport whatsoever, went into the us marines, served, he was a paratrooper in the us army, sorry, and was a first lieutenant, thatis sorry, and was a first lieutenant, that is where he got interested in fitness, came out of the military and thought, how about tennis? sight is its ordinary academies that created these amazing tennis players over the years. in his private life, it says not so successful in his private life, he was married. he was married eight times. hejoked that two of his alliances were ever so quickly he could barely remember the names of his ex wives. a good tennis, doing extraordinary things with tennis players, 91 years old. a legendary name in tennis. there you 90, legendary name in tennis. there you go, the quality area. . quality
about that. it s an amazing the movie is great in a bunch of ways. 90 years. i think most of people think of abbey road started with the beatles, but you go back to 1931 and talk about that this studio has been arguably the best studio in the world for almost a century, which is sort of mind blowing. yeah. i really learned it s the people that work there, the technicians, the producers, and it s got a real family atmosphere. and what i learned was that they really do look after the artists, that they facilitate whatever they need. they don t give you a hard time, they re not a buzz kill. it s like we re here, we re going to make the best music we can. andth the same today. studio 1 and studio 2 are the same and they haven t messed with it so you still get that experience. you go through this and you get to see jimmy page when he was a session musician and elton john when he was first getting paid to play the piano for people. but your dad and the beatles run