tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
ashby, and william rhoden, writer at large for espn, and author of forty million dollar slaves, the rise, fall, and redemption of the black athlete. doctor, i want to start with you. walk us through what happened. how does performing a tackle in football, which looked like a clean tackle, result in a heart attack? hello, joy. i wish we were seeing each other again on better circumstances. but it s nice to see you nonetheless. this is my little presentation here. i want folks to really understand what happened or what appears to have happened based on the video and the limited information that has been released so far. the heart has its own electoral conduction system, its own heart internal s pacemaker. now, the heart is basically an electrical, mechanical organ.
first of all, i don t know the answer to that question. again, this is a freak occurrence. it occurs very infrequently. it happens in car accidents, when you get hit by a baseball, football. so, it is something that occurs so infrequently that it is we have really limited utility in trying to prevent it. sure. the other question, with the anti vax, misinformation that is out there, it is really ridiculous. i don t know if you saw case, but basically, you come to rock nation, vaccine and it is a pretty disappointing night, instead of lifting up this man and trying to jumping to all kinds of weird, wacky theories. amen to that, amen to that. dr. bernard ashby that really was one of the best explanations i have seen and william rhoden, friends both, happy new year to you. and next up, slippery george
bodies to these 230 nfl teams. i hope a lot of people don t play because that s more opportunity for us. i think that given the structure of our society, there are going to be a lot of people, many of them african american boys, who are going to still throw their hat in the ring to play a very violent game. yeah i m just wondering, is there any piece of equipment is there any pieces of equipment that could have stopped this? stopped this blow, this direct blow to the heart? and as you answer that question, dr. i bernard ashby, i want you to also address this question of what happened to him for anti-vax-ism purposes. is there a piece of equipment that could have prevented this and address these anti-vaxxers that are using the strategy to promote their ideology.