still no speaker of the house. the divide in the republican party, as both sides signal they re not giving up without a fight. republican lauren boebert is here to explain her beef with kevin mccarthy. and as the house is divided in washington, a rare moment of bipartisanship in kentucky. what the next two years of a split government may look like as the 11th hour gets underway on this very important wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with the deadlock on capitol hill, as republicans struggle to elect a house speaker. just hours ago, lawmakers voted by a narrow majority to adjourn to until tomorrow at noon. earlier today, a second round of votes failed to give kevin mccarthy the speaker s gavel. he has now lost six separate votes in a row. tonight, mccarthy, his backers, and his opponents met to try to hammer out an agreement. the discussions are going well and will continue. but that does not mean they re done. it d
jeffries. my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. sandra: congressman elect donalds will be joining us in a moment, byron donalds is watching for the final vote cast on the float and then hop in front of the camera and join us live. john: first we go to chad pergram live on capitol hill. chad, looks like groundhog day today. well, right now the one thing we know is that they are not going to elect a speaker of the house on this roll call vote. the first vote of the day, the fourth overall in the past two days and kevin mccarthy has not been able to get an outright majority of
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welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g
pandemic lockdowns that harmed children, closed businesses and churches even, the endless re-upping of emergency covid powers, the destruction of historical markers and status. the use of big tech as top defenseers for the cart regime, all of this, all of it points to one ugly inescapable conclusion. our government is being run by a kadri of powerful post-american forces. our current political leadership acts as though our constitution and the freedoms recollected by that constitution are no longer valid. there will always be a reason for them to ignore our constitution these days, like systemic racism, climate change or another covid vary gentleman, maybe gun violence, january 6th. and they won t explicitly say it, at least not yet, but they don t want us to live under a constitution that leaves the primary decision making to the people of the 50 states. nor do they want the designation american citizen to really have any special meeting at all for any of us. so we ll retain