Capital. Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Ca
I just dont know how theyre going to do it. I dont think they know it. Theyt dont. Which is worrisome. Thank you, my friend, for all the breakingy news. And thank you for joining on this continuing night of developments. In the last hour there has been unprecedented upheaval in congress specifically among the republican majority in the house. The partys nominee for Speaker Of The House, congressman Steve Scalise, has Just Announced that he is dropping out as a candidate. I just shared with my colleagues im dropping out as a candidate for speaker designee. If you look over the last few weeks and where where our conference is, theres still work to be done. Well have much more on that story in just a bit, but first we continue our coverage with the israelhamas war about to enter its seventh day of fighting. The number of dead has reached 2,800 people. Among that2, number israel repos at least 1,300 israeli lives lost including over 200 soldiers. And the Palestinian Health authority report