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
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and that. is it a cartoon or is it congress? the seemingly endless lies from congressman elect george santos could be catching up with him. the embattled republican under investigation by the feds and his state with just six days until he is scheduled to be sworn in to office. the clock is ticking. santos vows he s going to take his seat in the house. the plan is being met by resistance. democrats and some republicans are questioning his legitimacy. santos has some defenders. they argue plenty of d.c. politicians have been caught telling very tall tales. welcome back as america report goes on. anita, i m gillian turner. we ll ask who santos should do. we begin with southwest airlines facing major backlash from its own pilots. at the end of the day, southwest wasn t prepared. unfortunately, this has been a decade in the making. we ve sounded alarm bells and tried to get them to change processes. nobody has reached out to inform us to what s going on, even the recov
this woman did something that an angel would do. to take in a perfectly stranger, a stranger. you took him in in your home. on christmas eve. joey s life was saved by a woman who cared deeply about a man she had never met. thank you. i am right here. i am right here. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. the news continues so let s hand it over to alisyn camerota on cnn tonight. alisyn? i am alisyn camerota. the january 6th committee putting more new witness testify tonight. stuff we have not heard before, including how mark meadows allegedly burned documents. and, how much talk about qanon there was in the white house. also tonight, the question thousands of angry stranded passengers ask at this hour, what is going on with southwest airlines? why are they subjecting travelers to so much chaos? how are will the airline make it up to those passengers? and the supreme court allowing that trump-era border policy to stay in place, that is the one that sends migrants back to mexico