Chaos on capitol hill. As republican hardliners get their wish. Kevin mccarthy losing his gavel. Now the house is without a speaker amid a slew of contentious issues including another potential government shutdown. Plus donald trump back in court, this time under a new gag order. But he is still attacking prosecutors as his former accountant gets grilled on the witness stand. We are live at the courthouse. And a historic new strike. Thousands of Health Care Workers walking off the job. What theyre asking for and what it means for patients. We are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to Cnn News Central. Divided and searching for a new speaker. Right now on capitol hill the race to replace Kevin Mccarthy is heating up. This Morning Judiciary chairman jim jordan became the first to throw his hat into the ring, publicly announcing he will run for the speakership. And republican sources tell us there are currently at least two others considering
Gingrich says hes destructive to the party. Many are equally ticked off at democrats who could have, in many republicans minds, should have saved mccarthys job. Well tell you what theyre doing to settle the score. We start in washington where a chaotic new chapter in the history of the House Of Representatives has begun, and just when it seems things couldnt get any uglier, they have. Republican supporters of Kevin Mccarthy Furious Over Democrats unwillingness to protect them and protect the speaker from conservatives are now exacting revenge. Over the past 24 hours, two democratic leaders, nancy pelosi and steny hoyer have been told to vacate their offices inside the capitol. Pelosi is blaming acting speaker Patrick Mchenry for the move, although its not clear who made the final call. Mchenry is just one of at least six lawmakers who are now testing the water indvan of next weeks vote for a new speaker. Others include Steve Scalise, Judiciary Committee chair, jim jordan who confirmed
and some words of unity as trump works to bring the grand old party together 144 days until the november election. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. moving forward from those meetings on capitol hill with house and senate republicans, the nation s 45th president is focused on key issues shoring up his allies as he is also dealing with a little bit of unfinished business. in those meetings yesterday trump reportedly called those pursuing him at the justice department dirty no-good bastards and called president biden a dope. here he is after those meetings. there is tremendous unity in the republican party. we want to see borders. we want to see strong military. we want to see money not wasted all over the world. we have great common sense. a lot of very smart people in this room and a lot of people that love our country. harris: and now we ll hear from some lawmakers who were with him. i think he recognizes now, having been through a few elections,
And that brings this hour to lewandowski has agreed to come in. We expect to have him come in a close. This month. I will see you tonight at we have additional witnesses we 8 00 p. M. Eastern and then will be interviewing some using tomorrow at 1 00 eastern and staff to interview and others well have them come during a public hearing. Again at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. This is all to educate the deadline white house with American People. Nicolle wallace begins now. There already is a mountain of hi, everyone. Evidence that donald trump its 4 00 in new york. Committed multiple felonies. Not even a trip to the pentagon congressman, do you to honor the victims of 9 11 on understand the critique that the this solemn anniversary slowed Southern District of new york found donald trump to have the president s steady stream of committed a felony campaign complaints and attacks today. Most of those grievances aired finance violation in their investigation that Robert Mueller found donald trump on his
deeply under chinese communist party control. that sent a message, i think, to a lot of u.s. manufacturers. and he is the one who has been explicitly aggressive about china s foreign policy initiatives such as increasing spending on the military. so who could be surprised that there would be a reaction and and backlash against all of this and, yes, american ceos have to be aware of it. paul: all right, hanks, gentlemen. still ahead, house democrats using their last days in the majority to step up their attack on the supreme court, holding a hearing into what they call a stealth effort on the right to influence conservative justices. the moral of the story is this: supreme court justices cannot effectively self-police their own ethics. kevin! finish finish