well, you can see that the ambulances s out there on the field and they are invencely working on damar hamlin. look at the faces. showing the horror we all felt after that terrible event on the football field last night. i mean it is really, really tough to watch, and frankly, showing the video is we went back and forth whether we should show it, think you should see it and then won t play that much. i m don lemon along with kaitlan collins, and poppy harlow. damar hamlin, in critical condition after collapsing on the field last night. how did this happen? and tell you the league s response in the aftermath. today with only hours to go before republicans take control of the house, kevin mccarthy is still struggling to get the votes he would need to become speaker. we ll tell you what happens if he falls short. but we re going to begin with that terrible incident that happened on the field monday night. damar hamlin collapsing after making a tackle. the bills say he
here and you re watching all of this drama play out on the republican side. what do you make of it all? i think drama is a great word for it. i have to be honest. i don t think the average sm american is paying a whole lot of attention or inspired what s going on with this chaos. so it s definitely interesting, but see it more as a distraction? it matters having a leader that can get stuff done, that can fix things, work across the aisle, that is what people care about. that s what matters to normal working families like mine. kevin s not that person. he s never going to be that person who can work across the aisle and deliver. i think it s even if folks aren t paying a lot of attention to it, you know it does matter. yeah. it does matter. there s a unity candidate potentially emerging if it does devolve into chaos today and maybe someone that democrats would actually come across the aisle and vote for.
i wonder how you are going to use that to shape your time here in washington? yeah. working for a living. working in the trades. being a rural american, what my priorities are and probably why i don t care too much about the leadership questions and this drama. it s how do we make lives measurably better. my small business broken into four times now. just got broken into again a few weeks ago. i had a car stolen a few weeks ago. it s a really difficult time for a lot of people, and it s just so much of this, it feels like drama. do you think members of your party are paying enough attention to issues like? like crime, like the things you ve been dealing with yourself? i don t think i think that what i ve seen is that to get elected, to be in congress takes so much money. it takes so much such a
reporter: within minutes after his collapse medical staff started cpr on him right on the field. usually you see players gather around a player that happened tonight, when they saw them start doing crest compressions you saw the reaction of those players walking away, distraught and emotional. the kind of things we don t see on a football field. reporter: the 24-year-old star suffered a cardiac arrest according to the bills. his heartbeat restored on the field and an ambulance driven on the field to transport him to a local hospital. never seen anyone have cpr administered to them on the practice field or the game field. so that s when i became concerned. reporter: players huddled on the field visibly emotional. the nfl then postponed the game. we were not ready for this. we were not prepared for this. these are all men that spend time together, growing together. making sure that one another is all right. doing whatever you have to do
neck. emotions, feeling about that, also thought about the players, teammates rocked by this. this is a team tight like brothers. you re co-workers but you spend more time with your teammates during the season than with your spouse, with your family. so there are strong connection there s. these are players who have been through a lot, as have so many people in the city of buffalo. these are players who mourn the death and rallied after the mass shooting about seven months ago in buffalo. players who mourned and then rallied for the dozens of people who lost their lives just about a week ago in the tragic blizzard there in buffalo. these are young men who have been through a lot. those are some of the things that i was thinking about. you knew something wasn t right when you saw him stand up and suddenly collapse. but i ve been in situations where an ambulance has come on