particular. jake, one of the things that you worry about when somebody has cardiac arrest is that there was simply not enough oxygenated blood getting to the brain, and you don t know until someone has woken up from sedation and is able to talk. he is not able to talk because of the intubation, but he is able to communicate with writing, and moving his hands and feet. but he is described as critically ill, jake, because it has only been 2 1/2 days, and so there may be periods of the roller coaster still in terms of the recovery which you will see with critically ill patients, and maybe not a linear track of improvement. so that is what i heard. it was a quick response, and we kept hearing that, and we got details of what that means. on the field, he had cpr performed, and he had defibrillation performed. the defibrillation was performed to restore normal breathing restored, and he had a breathing tube in place, and paramedics came out, and the team doctors came out, and that
hi there, everyone, here we go again. it s 4:00 in new york. at this hour, the house of representatives is completely and totally paralyzed. it is unable and incapable of swearing in members, forming committees, setting rules for itself, passing legislation even in the case of an emergency, couldn t do any of those things. it s a state of chaos and paralysis that is unprecedent ed in modern american history and it is all because the new republican house majority cannot agree on who should lead it in the 118th congress. house gop leader kevin mccarthy has moved into the speaker s office already, appears to be living by the motto, if at first you don t succeed try, try, try, try, try, try again. he has now lost five votes for the speakership, a sixth vote is underway. it s already clear from the math that mccarthy doesn t have the votes to become speaker of the house of representatives this time either. democrats for their part quietly made history yesterday by choosing the fir
world. this is a special edition of the situation room and the vote for speaker. good evening to you, wolf. good evening to all. i m erin burnett. we re following kevin mccarthy s failure to lock down the votes he needed to win that speaker s gavel, wolf. that fight plunging the republican party right now into a truly historic struggle on the floor. as of tonight, despite losing three votes, mccarthy remains defiant, refusing to give up, despite a band of some 20 right wing lawmakers who remain united, united in opposing the minority leader. the house adjourning until tomorrow. that s the crucial thing, adjourning untul tomorrow. what will happen? does he get the votes? let s begin with manu raju live on capitol hill. what is the latest you re hearing in this unprecedented moment from republicans where you are? reporter: we are where we are from the beginning of the day, a serious impasse. no end in sight. something that could drag or for some time, tomorrow, maybe
Today on inside politics, defiant, bob menendez seeks to beat a federal indictment. On the clock, congress is shrinking a sixday window to stop a shut down. And guess what, donald trump just made the house speakers job a whole lot harder. Plus a picket line gamble, joe biden hopes to edge the gap between automakers say they can afford. Im manu raju for dana bash, lets go ahead to inside politics. Up first, Bob Menendezs big fight and one he vows to win. Minutes ago the new jersey democrat responded directly to a federal indictment. The allegations leveled against me are just that. Allegations. When all of the facts are presented, not only will i be exonerated, but i still will be the new jersey senior senator. Now, menendez took the microphone and National Attention to flatly deny he did anything wrong. And all of the ways he has stood up to egypt over decades of service and make what sounded like a case for reelection. Well start in new jersey with cnns Kara Scannell in the room. Kara
this country has fought tooth and nail and has really run in a way that is an outlaw, saying i m the anti-institution, anti-rule of law candidate. and the behavior this week, and the fact that we re going to have a hearing, as you pointed out on tuesday, about his repeated alleged violations of a gag order, and again, we re talking about someone who ran or government. who is the head of the justice department. so you have this enormous tension you have this enormous tension between a system of government, of democracy, and somebody who is trying to leave the government again but is completely about breaking it all down. to me, that is just this remarkable thing that is going on just steps away from where we all are. yeah. and professor murray, i mentioned that we have some clues about what will be said.