fact not going to continue as speaker past the end of this month. that of course set in motion a whole series of things that led us to today. but here s the deal. there was a lot of concern on the conservative side, and i heard it a lot during the month of august, that there needs to be new energy, there needs to be new enthusiasm, there needs to be a change in the leadership in the house, in a majority party in the house. and it s not a sentiment with which i disagreed. and then you heard in your piece in the intro leader mccarthy saying maybe it is time for a fresh face. i get that. and i think my constituents certainly have discussed with me how it s not going to be perhaps seen as a victory that if we just move from the speaker to the next person in line, there really does need to be a shake-up because we see what s happening with on both sides,
why relieved? well, here s the thing. two weeks ago tomorrow speaker boehner announced that he was in fact not going to continue as speaker past the end of this month. that of course set in motion a whole series of things that led us to today. but here s the deal. there was a lot of concern on the conservative side, and i heard it a lot during the month of august, that there needs to be new energy, there needs to be new enthusiasm, there needs to be a change in the leadership in the house, in a majority party in the house. and it s not a sentiment with which i disagreed. and then you heard in your piece in the intro leader mccarthy saying maybe it is time for a fresh face. i get that. and i think my constituents certainly have discussed with me how it s not going to be perhaps seen as a victory that if we
whether they believe what he s saying or not. what does he believe in? i don t know. but make america right again. and telling the truth. three of the top five have never held office. do you think there is a common theme there? people are tired of professional politicians and want to see some regular though extraordinary guy or woman take the helm and go forward. i want to read you something. the choice we face between continuing the politics of the last 40 years that have led to bigger and bigger government, less and less liberty, restriction of earnings through confiscation of taxation or trying to get back to the original course set by forefathers we ll choose between fiscal responsibility, freedom of government or freedom of choice for all people or let an irresponsible congress set the road to our failure basically. this is written by ronald reagan in 1976. 40 years ago. same song and dance.
babies have been born in the last three days. very beautiful baby. it s a boy. i know. he is very beautiful. a healthy baby boy named haiyan, named for a storm he will know nothing about. anderson cooper, cnn, tacloban, the philippines. people see something like this and want to try to help. please go to our website cnn.com/impact, a list of all kinds of way to participate in the relief effort there and they desperately need help. president obama picked to head of the federal reserve goes to capitol hill for a confirmation here. janet yelleden is to say the best way to survive the economy and she has no plans to change the course set by outgoing chairman ben bernanke but expect tough talk. we are going to have much more coming up in our next half hour when christine romans joins us
live in rome. what is the latest amy? what can we gather about when they will get started? reporter: well, martha, no date as of yet of course set for the conclave. we would have let you know that. we re still waiting. unfortunately the ban on those daily briefings from the american cardinals is still in place and one journalist asked the vatican spokesman today if it wasn t that the american cardinals were doing penance for the since of their italian brethren? in other words suggesting it was the italians who had been leaking information to the press, not the americans, so why did the americans need to stop those briefings. father lombardi, who is the vatican spokesman appeared to take umbrage at that. he said no one knows who is leaking to the information to the press. it is on their conscience. the it had to be said that the information was not particularly headline-making. there was one headline about the kart nals asking a information point to be set up for the meeting. cardin