that third ballot, where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for ken mccarthy and his allies. we have seen supporters going into his office. we are told he has been working the phones. he still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i spoke to a gop lawmaker. this is some breaking news here. this lawmaker texted me and said this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they have just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans, who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that number to flip. essentially what you have here is kevin mccarthy and his office in the capital, trying to get to 218. and you have this opposition digging in and trying to work directly against him. look, this is one of the potential drawbacks of doing the motion to adjourn. there is a lot of concern initially about whether, if they were to send members home, about whether the opposition would have time to grow, whe
Good evening. Tonight six American Families are in the process of receiving the worst possible news. Eight days before christmas they are learning they have lost a loved one overseas. It was a blackhawk helicopter carrying u. S. Soldiers. It went down in afghanistan. A fight ensued. Tonight six americans are dead. There was one survivor. The pentagon has yet to fill in some of the blanks beyond the shock of the initial news. Our pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski is in afghanistan for us tonight. Jim, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. This was the single deadliest incident for American Forces in afghanistan in more than a year, but theres a lot of confusion here tonight. First military reports claim that the americans came under heavy enemy fire, but later reports indicated there may have been no enemy contact. Whatever the circumstances today, six americans were killed. There were two u. S. Army blackhawk helicopters flying in tandem over southern afghanistan today when
A very good day to you. We begin in taiwan, the aftermath of a 6. 4 magazine tut earthquake in the southern part of that country. These live images you see here, it has left at least seven people confirmed dead. More than 150 injured. Rescue workers are now combing through the rubble of a 17story residential building that was tommed by this earthquake. Theyre looking for at least eight people who may still be trapped inside there. Some 12 hours, keep in mind, after this earthquake hit. So far rescue teams have pulled more than 200 survivors from the debris, including a mother and her children. Translator the rescuers broke in floor by floor. In the beginning they told us to try climbing out. My kids were too little to do that. They had to cut open a bigger hole and one rescuers was able to climb in and get them and then myself. I was definitely determined to get my kids out, definitely. Thankful she was able to escape. Again, this has proven to be a deadly earthquake. Lets get the late
Breakthrough against a crushing disease. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We are in the thick of it, people, so of course we begin today again with our politics lead. Donald trump in New Hampshire, the site of the nations first in the nation primary. In just five days, and mr. Trump is not taking anything for granted. Granite. Its the granite state. Anyway, he has four events today. Some oldschool politicianlike appearances. Hes taking an alternate route to get around today, its called the high road. Until today a road not taken. Sur lan s Sunlen Serfaty is on the trail. Trump is noticeably toning it down today. Thats right. He backed off of going after ted cruz, as we saw him do all day yesterday, hammering him, claiming that cruz did not win iowa, that he stole the iowa election. Well, there was absolutely none of that coming from donald trump today, and ted cruz was the one throwing the punches. On the ground in New Hampshire, ted cruz reveling in taunt
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