contests in two critical battleground states, arizona and nevada. plus unfathomable. simply unfathomable horror in thailand. an attacker uses a gun and a knife to murder at least 24 children while they sleep. and another new claim against herschel walker. the woman who told the daily beast walker paid her to have an abortion now says she is also the mother of one of walker s children. the georgia republican senate nominee says it s a lie, a smear. i ll say the same thing i said, that i know this is untrue. i know it s untrue. they keep telling me things like that. totally, totally untrue. i know nothing about any woman having an abortion. and they can keep coming at me like that. and they re doing it because they want to distract people. i know that. back to that story in a moment. but we begin the hour with new numbers. remacable new numbers that speak volumes about how competitive key races are with just a little more than a month to go in this incredibly consequential
the tellers agree that the total number of votes cast is 434 of which the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ cheers and applause ] the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [ cheers and applause ]. the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [ applause ] thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done, to get big things done, the solve the problems. and i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending will
the gavel. this morning, he was not able to bring along a handful of far right lawmakers who oppose his nomination and are demanding more big power concessions from him as the price for going forward. we may have a battle on the floor. but the battle is for the conference and the country. that s fine with me. i don t see how a few people maybe it s 5, maybe it s 20 sit because they want a gravel that they can t earn. that s not what the constituents voted them for. this as house democrats united behind hakeem jeffries, with a new younger ship team holding business cards to play as the republicans dissolve into chaos. why is choosing a speaker important? the house cannot form committees or do work on any legislation until there is a presiding officer. it s been a century since it has taken more than one roll call vote to fill the position. at this hour, we don t know how many votes it will take to elect the next speaker or how long it will drag out and da minute dimi
good morning, everyone. i m bianna golodryga. our top story this hour, former president trump unleashing a angry response this morning after the january 6 committee voted to subpoena him for documents and testimony under oath in connection with the capitol riot. we are on bligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. and every american is entitled to those answers. so we could act now to protect our republic. in his response, posted on truth social, trump reiterated many of the very same lies we ve heard for years now. once again falsely claiming that the election was stolen. but it is still unclear if he will comply. also we re now seeing new footage obtained by cnn never before seen video of congressional leaders responding in the moment of chaos. why don t you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general in your law enforcement responsibility. a public statement they should all leave. so, you might get we re
good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american then the notion that any one person could choose the american president, no idea more un-american. i agree with that. which is unusual because former vice president mike pence and i don t agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months ago about donald trump s attempt to pressure the former vice president pressure him into going along with an unlawful and unconstitutional scheme to overturn the 2020 and give dawn trump a second tournament office. today, the select committee is going to reveal the details of that pressure campaign. but what does the vice president of the united states even have to do with the presidential election? the constitution says that the vice president of the united states oversees the process of counting the electoral college votes. the process that took place on january 6th, 2021. donald trump wanted mike pence to do something no other vice president has ever done. the former president wa