cnn newsroom. it was like no notice. we didn t know what was happening. city is gone, but we will resilient. and we re gonna come back. we re going to come back strong. unfortunately coming up here in the upcoming 24 hours we are expecting to deal with the same threats over the same areas. the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated , discredited and totally disgraced. i don t believe that bragg would be doing this if donald trump were not running for president. really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, firing his own defense minister who is a member of his own political party with these people are saying is they care about democracy? i think it shows the vitality vibrancy of israel s democracy. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. monday march 27th nine am here in london. 11 am in israel were just a short time ago, the country s largest union called for and historic general strike. universities are also
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we should be prepared to be back here doing this same thing when that happens. because especially considering some of the things that mccarthy clearly gave away. i mean in the past they ve been able to do it with democratic help, and mccarthy in theory could do that. but it seems like they ve tried to hold his feet to fire here and say, no, what kevin mccarthy can decide to do is not put it on the floor. without getting into the specifics of all the ugly fights that are going to come, i think the point that you just made and others have made is that this is at large a vision of what we re going to see, possibly, going forward for the next two years in a very chaotic congress. and it has huge consequences. huge consequences for nation, but as we just settle on this moment, we are watching the history being made, because i believe on this 15th ballot kevin mccarthy will finally secure enough votes, whether it s through people voting present or switching votes to him to ac
of this vote. and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of the history lesson here? compare this to any other time in modern history? any other time in modern history there is none, because the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballots was 1823. but, we will come back to this board. but to put you in some s perspective what the history of this is. you re looking at here, this is every speakers race in history gone past one ballot. we ll put this past today when there were only 11 ballots. so this is the 15th ballots. right here in history is where the speakers race ranks. is the 15th longest and you can see, there for longer than this were all pre civil war. this is gonna finish well shy of a record of 133. but if it does indeed finish here. 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history. and we haven t seen this go past the first ballot since back in 1923. there wer
and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen this go p