Headquarters in new york. Breaking right now, were waiting for the first News Conference from the brand new Speaker Of The House, mike johnson. He won with a slim majority from the republicans but they were lined up this time around, which we have not seen in the prior three rounds. This happened three weeks after they ousted former speaker, Kevin Mccarthy. This is a beautiful country. Its the beauty of america that allows a firefighters kid like me to come here and serve in this Sacred Chamber where great men and women have served before all of us and strive together to build and preserve what lincoln referred to as the last best hope on earth. Martha well hear from mr. Johnson about what he plans to do as he takes on this very big role in the United States government. Also, on the other front, a very big afternoon as President Biden spoke today, he spoke quite briefly actually, in a News Conference that everybody was waiting all day for about what we now know have been attacks on u.
Good evening. House republicans thought they had a new nominee for speaker till about an hour and a half ago. Take you to capitol hill and show you what happened. Also tonight, israels bombardment of Terror Targets in gaza is inten intensifying and e criticism of statementings by Theouted Nation Secretary General about the war here in the u. S. And concerns of Mass Evacuation of americans in the region. Jacqui heinrich at the white house on t teherans role in the attacks and new comments from the israeli hostages released yesterday. A short time ago the House Speaker race imploded again. Reporter good evening. Another day, another Speaker Nominee drops out. Tom emmer was the Speaker Nominee for only four hours and gop burned through three Speaker Nominees in less than two weeks. Tom is a great guy, but the voter base wants somebody not in leadership. Mr. Emmer agrees with me that the election was not stolen. He voted to certify. Reporter mr. Trump said voting for emmer would be a big m
This administration has lessened those and we believe that really is a big part of why iran felt emboldened enough to allow its proxies to wage this attack. Neil real quickly. Tom emmer did clear a hurdle by getting republican support, what there was within conference for potential vote on the house floor. That he will be probably shy of the votes that he needs. Do you agree with that assessment . I have to be candid. The closest to 217 votes is our former speaker that was about four votes shy when he left office. As of today, the most popular republican by far is in fact Kevin Mccarthy. That cause as lot of us the question of did we get rid of the right man to get an alternative when theres no alternative. Were going to a conference in a few minutes. As emmer tries to get to 217, a lot of us are asking the question what was wrong with the person to that almost had 217 on the day he left office. Neil do you know whether he or maybe at your behest would try entertaining for his old job
House democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected. Disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide. And it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. And hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he
Is your job and thank you all so much for joining us. This is seen under central as johnson said its metal coverage of the trump trial starts right now, this was Cnn News Central us federal a live view of the criminal courthouse here in manhattan, where we are told doctors legal team will be on a mission today, zeroing in on Michael Cohens admitted and allege lies before president and all it is on his way to the courthouse right now is the defenses preparing to up where it left off, grilling trumps longtime fixer. You can see them there waving to the cameras as he gets into his motorcade. Over the last 24 hours, trumps legal team its been preparing for this moment for colins returned to the Witness Stand. Im told and plotting their strategy to undermine the prosecutions star witness. The question is whether they can the jury, but also their client im Kaitlan Collins here in new york. Object. Saverin, washington dc. Youre watching special seen in live coverage of former president Donald