Everybody. Breaking out this hour you have 75,000 Healthcare Workers going on strike. Seems the thing to do in america today. It is happening at dozens of hospitals across five states that include virginia, california. Among those on strike are the nurses and technicians they say they are understaffed and underpaid. More on this story as we get it right now. A live look in los angeles. Meanwhile you have a country in crisis at least in washington, d. C. , anyway. In a fight in Congress Puts us at a stand still. A group of house republicans, small group, siding with democrats to rip the gavel out of Kevin Mccarthys hands. He is no longer speaker. The country plunged into uncharted territory and puts the issues Americans Care about the most on hold. Good morning. Dana is off today. Im bill hemmer and this is martha maccallum. Martha were in uncharted territory to be sure. We didnt get on the air yesterday. I was watching this untold. I havent seen a debate like that in a long time. Well
This is cnns special live coverage of an historic vote on capitol hill. Im jake tapper. This has not happened in more than 100 years. But facing a revolt from a small but powerful group of republican hardliners, mccarthy says he will bring up a motion to vacate in the first series of votes today that is just minutes away. I truly believe, though, the institution of the house, at the end of the day if you throw a speaker out that has 99 of their conference, that kept government open and paid the troops, i think were in a really bad place for how were going to run congress. Speaker mccarthy says he thinks he will survive the vote and that he will not make a deal with democrats to keep his job but that may not even be an option anyway. Heres the speaker earlier today. Democrats have been huddling today. Democrats are signaling they will not be coming to Speaker Mccarthys rescue. Lets get right to the action on capitol hill. Cnns manu raju and lauren fox join me now. Manu, ill start with y
night, but worth pausing and reflecting what was accomplished last night. number one, nancy pelosi lost her job. we ve taken the gavel out of nancy pelosi s hands. we re going to have a republican majority in the house. we ll have republican chairman of every committee. we ll have leadership in the house that has moved out of the hands of the crazy democrats. number two, i think you re right that we have a real shot at a republican majority in the senate as well. i think adam laxalt is very likely to win in fetterman. the numbers look encouraging right now. i agree with you, blake masters has a shot in arizona. it s ridiculous they re still counting the votes there. i think blake has a shot. then a runoff coming up on december 6th in georgia, where i think herschel walker will win. i m getting on a plane tomorrow and flying to georgia to do a rally with herschel, because we ve got 30 days. look, it s deja vu all over again, where we had an we had runoffs in georgia for control of the
an even bigger victory last night, but worth pausing and reflecting what was accomplished last night. number one, nancy pelosi lost her job. we ve taken the gavel out of nancy pelosi s hands. we re going to have a republican majority in the house. we ll have republican chairman of every committee. we ll have leadership in the house that has moved out of the hands of the crazy democrats. number two, i think you re right that we have a real shot at a republican majority in the senate as well. i think adam laxalt is very likely to win in fetterman. the numbers look encouraging right now. i agree with you, blake masters has a shot in arizona. it s ridiculous they re still counting the votes there. i think blake has a shot. then a runoff coming up on december 6th in georgia, where i think herschel walker will win. i m getting on a plane tomorrow and flying to georgia to do a rally with herschel, because we ve got 30 days. look, it s deja vu all over again, where we had an we had runoffs i
0 we will keep you up to date on it as it unfolds. pretty amazing moment to be watching. thanks for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. we will see you tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., but in the meantime sean hannity takes over from here. sean: all right, tucker. sometime three months from now, you might get the results from arizona and nevada. if you wait long enough. it s coming, it s coming. don t worry. welcome to hannity. tonight the midterm elections are over, but the balance on capitol hill is still in flux, as we predicted repeatedly on this show, key races were decided by razor thin margins, many elections yet to be called. this is not a surprise. we knew it would be extremely tight. we warned all of you every night, in fact, on election eve, we pointed out, the razor thin margins that decided 2016 and 2020, and we made this prediction. just to remind you as a reminder, three key swing states, if you go back to 2016, propelled donald trump to victory in 2016. the