of the state of california has received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheering] [applause] alright here s how the vote finally broke down. mccarthy with 216, hakeem jeffries got 212. and six voted present which help mccarthy clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed for the majority. usa too. in the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. hooks ultimately the past several days were about negotiations. mccarthy agreed to a range of things. from only one lawmaker needed to propose a new speaker be put in place, to voting on term limits. in a speech on the house floor he shared his vision for uniting the legislative body. my father always told me, it s not how you start, it is how you finish. the hard work begins for it may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. no he doesn t ever giv
we ll read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of way too early and politico s jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immediately
but let s begin in saudi arabia where the president is set to land. nic robertson is joining us there from jeddah. so they are waiting obviously highly an takes pay thing this arrival. what is the sense there ahead of this meeting, one that clearly the saudis wanted not only to have but to have images for the world to see, really legitimizing the regime? reporter: yeah, there is a real sense here that this is a moment for the saudis to have to get through because they know the focus and international attention that will be on president biden casting them as a pariah for the murder of jamal khashoggi. they recognize that. but they really feel that this is a moment to sort of punch through that situation. they are very keen to have face-to-face with president biden. they believe the very fact that president biden is coming here kind of resets the relationship so that they can get to the things that they want to get to which are all the sort of economic development investmen
here s my question though, tammy, he isn t going there and he s going to meet with elected officials and community leaders. why isn t he meeting with border patrol agents? if this is a war when you go to a war zone to be at the soldiers. he should be meeting with border patrol agents. they have very low morale. i think it would do a lot, he would say a lot the commander-in-chief would go and greet them and talk to them. even in his remarks, charlie is a great point he did not even mention that. this seems to still be a way of dancing around the nature it s like we are going to pay attention to that thing but we are not going to really do anything that might reinforce the complaints or the reality or bring in conversations that might embarrass us or we don t have answers for. is a huge reversal. it is proof he thanks he s going to be running birds also recognition that even joe biden in his diminished state realizes this is a terrible issue for him which is why the white house very
aggressively than it wants to in order to get inflation down. goodness. well, i guess we ll have you back to talk about it. still to come, we are following president biden s expected arrival in saudi arabia. we ll have more on that and the buildup to a highly anticipated meeting with the saudi king, but also the guy probably running the country, his son the crown prince. but first we ll go to the white house after texas filed a lawsuit against the administration overnight accusing it of overstepping its administrative authority on abortion. but your stomach doesn t. that disagreement ends right now. lactaid ice cream is the creamy, real ice cream youou loe that will nevever mess with your stomach. lactaid ice cream. (dog barking) we love our pets.. but we don t always love their hair. which is why we made bounce pet hair and lint guard with three times the pet hair fighting ingredients. just one sheet helps remove pet hair from your clothes