continuing coverage of the speaker of. kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in as speaker after winning on a historic 15th ballot. it is now my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel to a son of bakersfield, a former of a firefighter s household. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy. i never thought we would get up. here you know my father was told me, it is not how you start, it is how you finish. and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leaders jeffries, there will be times we agree and many times we will defer. i promise our debate will be passionate, but they will never be personal. that is my commitment to you. so after taking his own oath of office, the speaker then foreign members of the 118 congress, and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes, too short of a majority of the h
fist and yelling coming you re done. and one of the men on the scene in a help the congressman and here to tell us what happened at. carley: we begin with ashley strohmier with the breaking details, ashley, good morning. the gubernatorial candidate and congressman lee zeldin getting attacked at a campaign stop last night. now, you can see a man jump on stage while lee zeldin was speaking. the police say he approaches and start swinging his sharp weapon towards his neck. that terrifying moment was caught on camera, watch. there is only one option. you re done. speak with the monroe county sheriff s offer say the suspect man was taken into custody and charged with attempted assault. zeldin was able to grab the man and hold him off until others can jump in and tackle him, the attendees who stepped up to quickly assist and the law enforcement officers who quickly responded. as resolute as ever to do my part to make new york safe again. the suspect will likely bit back
Whether its a former president being issued a gag order, or the House Speaker fired its been another day for the history. Books indeed and now that theyve got a week off, contenders for mccarthys old job will no doubt be making the coming days pretty interesting too. Safe to say jake and anderson, the news continues tonight a special coverage certainly does. Joining me now audi philips and mark but good evening everyone im abby philips alongside my colleagues laura. Coats this is a Special Edition of cnn prime tent for an unprecedented moment in the history of the United States. Headline tonight, the American Government is broken. The tyranny of a minority, is now prime it paralyzed in this countrys institution. Depending on where you stand politically it could be for better for, us but right now here is where we are. There is currently no speaker of the house, and after never early avoiding a shut down the government is set to shut down under money in less than 45 days. The house is n
later. would begin with new developments in the israel hamas war. israel airstrikes pounded the gaza strip after its military said it was asked ending its ground operations into the territory. israel says it has yet to launch its massive ground invasion, one that they have been threatening since the october 7th hamas terror attacks. new video released by the idf today shows israeli tanks on the move in gaza. nbc news has not verified this video. the idf is saying it hit 150 underground targets in the northern gaza strip, killing several hamas terrorists. the relentless bombardment comes as gaza is facing a near- total blackout of internet and cell phones service. as tensions escalates, the biden administration is it recommending all evacuate due to a quote, unpredictable security situation. joining us now from the occupied west bank is nbc news course bonded thank you for coming back this hour. what is the latest there? so let me just set the scene for you. were in
the marine corps. no military leader out there is going to tell you they are more worried about a cartoon map in a movie about a doll then about having qualified members of the military in a position to lead their troops. likewise, no commander will tell you that the biggest problem facing the military it is that it is, quote, too woke. despite what house beaker kevin mccarthy claims. just focus on the military. stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokeism. the military cannot defend themselves and be traded and woke, we don t want disneyland to train our military, we want our men and women in the military to have every defense possible. that is what our bill does. to train them in woke. who knows about that actually means. mccarthy made those comments after house republicans passed their version of the defense authorization bill, with amendments on abortion, gender transition, care and dei. it bears repeating on this show,