thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
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than one story. your thoughts? well, anything is possible. and remember, it s a majority of the people voting at the time. my understanding is our whip, congressman clark of massachusetts is really whipping people to stay on the floor. they could get distracted and have a couple people take a break, and they call a vote, and you don t need 218, you need a majority of those voting. i do think you and talked about this earlier there s a real possibility they might have to go outside the house for a speaker. remember, it does not have to be a house member. but they re going to have to do something, and may have to do something to get democratic votes. the 19 people i thought it was, like, seven. i mean, that s like crazy on a level let me give a shout-out to the squad. probably not ideologically aligned with them, but they did right by the party.
enormously broad. it doesn t seem different from what she anticipated so far. as soon as they said alarmingly broad, she said even more alarmingly broad is your claim of executive privilege. we only have one president at a time. she also said it s quite alarming for you to ask these documents be withheld when you don t even explain what the harm is to the president of releasing them. she kept pressing mr. clark, who represented mr. trump. wha what s the harm to your client? and clark kept saying executive privilege. and she said, no, we re past that. we only have one president at a time. so if one is alarming and the other is alarmingly worse, it could go into favor here that congress has a right to all they requested? maybe they ll trim a few, like april 2020. she said maybe some of the political polls that were
weigh the importance of confidentiality and advice to the president against public need to know. it is also going to establish firmly that congress doesn t have to draft its statutes in advance of getting the information. one of the things that was amazing today was the idea that mr. clark was saying, we don t know what laws they ll pass. of course they don t. they haven t gotten the evidence yet. he also was suggesting that claims of privilege can drag out for years because every single document has to be reviewed individually by the judge, and she wasn t having any of it. she said, we re not going to drag this out. i m going to rule expeditiously. we don t have to rule document by document. that s important, because it means that the country will not be completely at the mercy of people planning a coup and an insurrection. so, gloria, we often have focus, appropriately so, on the people trying to stonewall the committee and the former