of the state of california has received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheering] [applause] alright here s how the vote finally broke down. mccarthy with 216, hakeem jeffries got 212. and six voted present which help mccarthy clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed for the majority. usa too. in the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. hooks ultimately the past several days were about negotiations. mccarthy agreed to a range of things. from only one lawmaker needed to propose a new speaker be put in place, to voting on term limits. in a speech on the house floor he shared his vision for uniting the legislative body. my father always told me, it s not how you start, it is how you finish. the hard work begins for it may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. no he doesn t ever giv
suspect. as you said, kate, the secret service is currently briefing the lawmakers on capitol hill about this investigation and i suspect they are sharing many of these same details with them right now. thank you very much. we will check back in a moment. and now, president biden is going to have a meeting with nordic leaders, and we will bring that back to you live here in moments. stay with us. it s right there! oh, he s straight ahead. he s straight ahead. straight ahead. go g go go. cover more ground in the kia sportage turbo-hybrid. kia. movement that inspires.
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house of representatives particular on the republican side to stay tuned know we not want this to happen. we will see. i think some of that chaos could actually be useful ovears. some of that may not. in a think with the republicans are going to have to do over these next 24 months or so is take a page of the democrats playbook of the last two years saying ultimately if we stick together we can get things done. if we don t, then we will see some repeats of the last four days. which occasionally might be appropriate but i don t think voters want to see it too often. anita: it is amazing how 20 people can hold up this whole process, right? whether you are. five people. anita: five people to do seem to watch fred i read where nancy plus using a couple days ago g, many kevin mccarthy s wanting to psychiatrist or doctor to deal with that she could not understand how this was happening. i did not think those were very productive comments there is sort of petty and nasty. but anyway, charli
though some show sharp declines. he may have protected some people, he has done tremendous damage to others. it s also arguable whether or not he actually protected people. when you adjust for age, the results, the fatality rates are the same, basically, in california and florida, and when we look at some of of the northern european countries who prioritized kids and open schools they are not seeing the learning loss and you know, they they fared better, actually, than we did here in the united states from a covid perspective. so you know, it s arguably, he problem it s arguably he protected no one, and caused undue harm to children across the state, small business owners, you know, businesses went under across the state, the economic results and the learning loss, and many democratic governors are refusing to release the results of the testing before the election because i think that they know it s harmful. it s go g to be bad, no yes