campaign kickoff. republicans take the stage in iowa. we have to resist the politics of personality. dispense with the culture of leaving. leaving the baggage ever negativity behind. how many candidates will make the debates and will their strategies to topple the front-runner work? and caught on tape. cnn learns the justice department has audio of the former president talking about a classified document he kept after his term. are charges coming? i ll speak to ranking democrat jamie raskin, next. plus making the case. pr president biden celebrates a win. did democrats get the better deal. people are furious. key noelgtor sha londa young and ken buck coming up. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of the union is on the trail hiding hot. it is campaign season and republican white house hopefuls hit the trail on saturday in iowa for senator joni ernst annual roast and ride. in some cases wearing leather motorcycle vests as they try to anticipate
the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol hill
Good evening, everyone. Im laura coates, here with abby philip, and this is a Special Edition of cnn tonight. Kevin mccarthy, i listed as house speaker, he says hes not dont even run again. Now, the house will be in recess for a week. Theyre not even planning to return till next tuesday night for cough conference meetings, before then, a Potential Vote later that week on electing a new speaker. So that means the house will be closed for business, maybe well get another speaker. Me while, because he lost that speakership gavel today, police said this tonight. These are the same people that never voted for me, they thought it was big they went to present. After we went through 15 rounds. Im not quite sure those individuals are looking to be productive. Well, this is certainly a moment in american history. And a series of a number of moments that weve never seen anything like before. Never before has a speaker lost the job in a vote on the house floor. And it happened with the pounding of
Judge tonight is calling the Trump Administration reunification efforts unacceptable. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the close of the first week of Paul Manaforts trial, things do not look good for the former Campaign Chairman of the trump campaign. And today in particular, the testimony about manaforts alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a Very Human Dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified Tax Documents in order to save Manafort Hundreds Of Thousands of dollars in taxes. Manaforts accountant, Cindy La Porta testifying i knew it was wrong, i could have refused but that would expose the Accounting Firm to the risk of litigation or i could have called longtime clients liars. I very much regret it. This is the first of two trials of Paul Manafort being brought by special counsel robert
wire transfers to prove that Paul Manafort was hiding millions of dollars of income from
the u.s. government to the no comply in any way with requests of the house over sight committee. so it would have been remarkable if every time we requested a document and much less give it to us. they keep changing the demand in order to find some reason to find fault with the fbi director wray. which is why i say what they re really going after is a contempt citation against him and it is all part of what chairman comer admitted was an effort to get donald trump s poll numbers up. it is all about the 2024 campaign. let me ask you something about what happened this past week. where you work in the house of representatives, congress in general, debt ceiling deal. the perresident said that kevin mccarthy worked in good faith. do you give him credit for the bipartisan deal. the president, yeah. excuse me. kevin mccarthy, the speaker. there is a maga extreme element within the republican