mistakes but they don t measure up to regrets now. truly wonderful man indeed. in just a few minutes i ll be speaking with former secretary of state, colon powell. our special live coverage will continue right after quick break.
successful candidate requires an outright majority of all members voting for someone by name. 435 house members. that means the speaker needs 218 votes. 218 is not necessarily the magic number. members sometimes vote present or absent or since the start of the new congress haven t yet been sworn in. so the house may have fewer than 435. consider the vote for former house speaker john boehner in january 2015. boehner commandeered 2016 votes. 25 lawmakers discast a ballot. they were absent attending the funeral of mario cuomo. the house was smaller. those members missed opening day and had not been sworn in. so boehner did need 2018. the speaker doesn t have to be a member. 54 people have served as speaker. there s never been a civilian speaker. secretary of state colon powell and former attorney general and
accounts has been targeted by hackers. the threat is so real and thus isn t the first time. our bryan todd has moron thus cyber alert from washington d.c. members of the u.s. senate are on alert their personal email accounts has target said. they warn their personal g mail accounts were targeted. sam widen is sounding the alarm with senate leadership. for dangerous foreign harkz, this is just a no brainer. pursesinal accounts are low hanging fruit. what you saw is the personal account, particularly of people like podesta and colon powell were the ones they went after
i want to bring in a special guest that knows the inner workings of the state department. robert charles served as assistant secretary under george w. bush s secretary and colon powell as secretary of state and a veteran of the first bush and reagan administration. great to see you. i want to talk with you about the timing. the white house says when the opportunity came up last week to talk with kim jong-un, that was informing the change in all of this. what are your thoughts about it? i think the president seeing that there s dangerous waters ahead and he wants a pilot at the ship of state that will be seeing the world the way he sees it, in particular north korea is one of those issues. i would add behind that very closely russian, china and iran. the iran agreement has to be decided to one extent in may. russia is putting heavy pressure on this president. china just decided they have a ruler that can last forever. it s time for a new leadership. pompeo is a great choice for that r
things. when you have as many followers as he does, every day you have an avalanche of material. he might have seen these three videos when he woke up in the morning and said oh, my goodness. look at this. without doing a lick of investigation or research into what the videos were and where they came from, he just fired them out there to 12 million people. shepard: what did you think of the answers on the secretary of state, rex tillerson? i mean, uncommital. looks, he s going to go. there s no question. it s a question of when. colon powell lasted four years here at the white house. condoleezza rice about the same period of time. you know, it s pretty clear. people say here is it any surprise that rex tillerson is thinking about leaving? no, no surprise at all. so he s said, he s told people he wants to stay a year. so i would expect, shep, we ll probably have to watch for his departure sometime after the beginning of the year and more