fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re goin
of covid-19. yet, as i mentioned earlier, there has not been a single hearing in the oversight committee to deal with potential waste, fraud, or abuse of the covid funds. not a single hearing. and we all know, despite what dr. fauci said, american tax dollars were sent through ecohealth alliance to the wuhan lab in china for gain of function research. but yet dr. fauci hasn t come before congress in the house of representatives. the american people deserve answers on covid-19 and speaker kevin mccarthy has given the republican majority the tools necessary to make that possible. the democrats have spent the past six years investigating a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia. now let me say this loud and clear. the republicans will also investigate a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia as well as china. the american people have a lot of questions for dr. fauci, christopher wray, merrick garland, secretary mayorkas. we can t have those qu
like so many other local election workers in 2020 he was harassed and threatened as he did his job faithfully. he did not bend. he did not bow. he did not yield to the political threats and pressure. he he s so trusted by both political parties that the new democratic governor of pennsylvania, josh shapiro appointed him as pennsylvania s secretary of state, a republican to ensure that the integrity of the election. that s a high compliment. [ applause ] his character and his commitments speak volumes. we the people. that s what we also see in mr. benson. twice elected secretary of state to save the right to vote and have that vote counted fairly. that s what she did in 2020, when she oversaw a record number of michiganders turn out in that election only to find an armed mob an armed mob outside of her home on christmas eve and she and her son were decorating their christmas tree inside, but she refused to back down. she had done her duty. she had kept her oath full of integ
concessions he made to them in order to get their votes? reporter: jake, that is really starting to come into focus. the number of concessions and promises that kevin mccarthy has made over the course of the negotiations has been quite outstanding, and i should caution that this stuff has not been put on paper. there has not been anything put out that we have seen. this is based on the reporting from me and my fantastic hill team. but i just want to walk you through just to give the viewers a sense of what has been agreed to and what a kevin mccarthy speakership could look like. the big one is he agreed for any single member to be able to call for a vote on ousting the sitting speaker. that s something he used to say he would never budge on. now any member could call for that vote. he s agreed that his leadership pack is not going to play in primaries to try to beat conservatives, at least in safe districts. that s something conservatives have complained about in the past.
grabs, dysfunction and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this, it s embarrassing, it s dysfunctional. it s dangerous, it s stupid. those are the word that is republicans have used. 11 rounds of voting and we still don t have a house speaker. as the deadlock enters a fourth day we have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that just might give kevin mccarthy the gavel. plus, we get the latest from the war in ukraine as russia calls for a brief cease-fire to observe the orthodox christmas holiday. ukrainians leaders are dismissing the idea. some good news, damar hamlin is showing improvement after collapsing on the field during monday night football. the buffalo bills safety is alert and responding to commands. we ll show you what his doctors are saying. good morning, and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, january 6th. it is, of course, the second anniversary of one of the darkest days in our nation s history and we wi