Right here to cnn news central. Right now republican candidates seeking to be the next House Speaker are facing a divided conference. More moderate republican members are calling for a change to the powerful tool that matt gaetz used to oust Kevin Mccarthy. Currently the rule allows for a single republican member to offer up a resolution that would remove the speaker. Now a growing course of moderates say they dont want that chaos seen on the house floor yesterday to happen again. Lets take you live to capitol hill with cnns manu raju. So far two republicans have officially thrown their names up for consideration, Steve Scalise and jim jordan. What are they saying about some of the most divisive issues theyll need to deal with almost right away if they become speaker. Reporter right now theyre trying to say they can unify this badly divided congress, culminating in the historic note yesterday. Unprecedented removal of the House Speaker by his own colleagues after Kevin Mccarthy lost hi
Minutes because thats theyll be focusing not only 17 victims in parkland, but the 13 victims in columbine that were killed in that 1999 shooting that really sparked this sort of awareness across the country. Andrea. Thank you, steve paterson. And the students at North High School in denver. We go to chicago, which is an hour earlier, rather an hour later, so they have already been out for an hour. Ron mott, a city rocked almost every day by violence in various neighborhoods but all reacting to what happened in florida. Ron . Reporter yeah, absolutely, andrea, good day to you. Im with young man from Leo High School here on the south side. You mention this is a daily problem here in chicago, gun violence. So these students who came out today, this rally wrapped up 10 minutes ago, those rally not just for those folks lost at parkland but all the people lost
daily basis in chicago to gun violence. Cash a, senior, what brought you out today and whats your message . I wanted to promote peace
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Mandate was originally and whether or not there was any collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia to try to influence the election. In his response letter, mueller said, no, i want to talk about the issues that go to obstruction as well. Im not sure where that leaves things right now. I know that the president s attorneys are formulating a response. Theyll likely have that next week. They dont want to let the president sit down with mueller and talk oneonone about these issues of obstruction. They might be willing to submit some written answers on the question. Mueller has said he would accept written answers in person also. What is interesting as well today about the Press Briefing, President Trump has talked about there being no credibility of this russian investigation, calling it a witch hunt, talking about malign actors at the fbi. Chris wray was asked why we should believe what hes saying about protec
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