vote for house speaker starts right now. any minute the house gavels in without a speaker for a third straight day. congress caught in the grips of chaos. no deal to end a first in a century clash over who becomes the next speaker of the united states house of representatives. i m erin burn net in new york and you are watching cnn s special live coverage. i m jake tapper in washington. the talks between republican leader kevin mccarthy and his allies and the 20 conservative rebels have been the most productive conversations yet in a week characterized by breakdowns, backroom bitterness, back stabbing and six very public rebukes of mccarthy and mccarthy has offered the 20 hard-line hold-outs a cornucopia of concessions including ones dealing with the rules such as lowering the threshold to recall a speaker. you only need a single vote according to what mccarthy offered but the outlines of a deal running the risk of alienating the 200 some member was voted for mccarthy ag
To talk to him, its a pleasure. I mean, its unbelievable. Look at his smile. Its not something that you can imagine that somebody would want to harm. This innocence. Absolutely senseless. Fraud and mark, i hope ohad and etan come home soon. Thank you so much for joining us. We are asking that today thats the main point, that there will brought home Safe And Sound and really ask the World Leaders have a lot of leverage to bring this about and we are asking this should be the main purpose. Yep. Especially the leaders in qatar which have close relationship with hamas but also in turkey and egypt and jordan and the uae and saudi arabia, anyone who has pull, anyone who can do anything and appeal to hamas to release these innocent sevcivilians hel hostage in gaza, please, please do what you can. Thank you so much, we appreciate it. Welcome to the lead kwit. Im jake tapper. Were following two major breaking story, first on capitol hill. House republicans mired in chaos, struggling mightily to
vote for house speaker starts right now. any minute the house gavels in without a speaker for a third straight day. congress caught in the grips of chaos. no deal to end a first in a century clash over who becomes the next speaker of the united states house of representatives. i m erin burn net in new york and you are watching cnn s special live coverage. i m jake tapper in washington. the talks between republican leader kevin mccarthy and his allies and the 20 conservative rebels have been the most productive conversations yet in a week characterized by breakdowns, backroom bitterness, back stabbing and six very public rebukes of mccarthy and mccarthy has offered the 20
they re not happy. we re spending a fortune. will the president strike a more conciliatory tone as he faces tensions within nato and impeachment here at home? world leaders will be listening closely and so will we. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. a major new report out laying out potential articles of impeachment as democrats announce their next public witnesses, plus a minority report. republicans countering with a lengthy rebuttal, claiming president trump didn t do anything wrong. the problem is the key points don t add up and the former fbi attorney that trump loves to attack says she s had it. she s fighting back and breaking her silence. the reporter who interviewed lisa page is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burn net, outfront tonight, the breaking news. the impeachment report is out, released moments ago by the house intelligence committee to members of the committee.
monday, know him as the ten term united states congressman elijah cummings did a masterful job at basically kidisplaying the emotions of what the youth in baltimore and beyond feel not just in his community either, right across the country. my next guest deals with baltimore s problems and prospects too every day. carl stokes is a baltimore city counselor who on this network last night took great offense at the mayor and president s description of some of the protesters who they both called thugs and criminals. and carl stokes joins me now live. sir, i heard you really get into a tangle with hi, ashleigh. erin burn net. i m glad you ve joined me today. i heard you get into a tangle with her last night about the characterization of those who burned, looted, stole, endangered and really just behaved horribly and was besmer muched the character of your fine city and then heard you use the n word and equate it and i want to know if you have