after days of drama, 15 rounds of voting. the house finally elects a speaker. how the chaos ended and what it means for the future of kevin mccarthy and the gop. and there are new details in the horrific murder of four idaho college students. what we re learning from a recently released affidavit and a former fbi agent will be joining us with her perspective on that investigation. also remarkable progress for buffalo bills player damar hamlin. an update on his condition and the moment he face timed his teammates from a hospital bed. and a major policy for military parents. the change that will allow them to spend more time with their newborn coming up on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it s january 7th. alex is gracing us with his presence. thank you for being with us, alex. hopefully you got some sleep last night. i got some sleep, that means i missed the historic, you know, end of the speakership race. yeah. and woke up to that news
republican in a giant red wave. most important of all is the senate race for democrats who are trying to flip a seat. i m ready to serve pennsylvania. he s running to use pennsylvania. i want to go to washington and bring balance. often referred to as the center of the political universe. it is a true battleground state. he has failed as a senator that needs to go to washington to speak for us. he doesn t know hard working people. he doesn t know struggling people. the startling new admission from tehran saying iran did provide a limited number of drones to russia, but it was in the months prior to the conflict. i m alex marport in washington, d.c. pamela brown is off tonight. thank you so much for joining me. you re in the cnn newsroom. it is just three days before the critical midterm elections. on this final weekend of campaigning, candidates and their big name surrogates are making their case to voters in closing arguments. in pennsylvania tonight presid
amounts of money time and star power to pennsylvania where republican mehmet oz and democrat john fetterman have been running neck and neck. sandra: former president obama and president biden appearing with fetterman in philadelphia this weekend while former president trump rallied with oz just outside of pittsburgh. we have you covered over the next two with hours with political analysis you will not want to to and cannot miss. john: plus, our team of reporters on the campaign trail following all of the closest races. we re going to start with bryan llenas in bucks county, pennsylvania. what s dr. oz s message to voters there today, bryan? reporter: hey, john, good afternoon. well, dr. oz s message to philadelphia s suburban message here is simple, elect him and and you ll get bipartisanship and balance in washington d.c. elect his opponent, john petterman, and you ll get a radical. bipartisanship was a focus of a round table discussion here in bucks county featuring senat
nothing but drama, we re on multiple days now with multiple candidates from this group. so i m not sure how lauren boebert on one hand can demand so much out of kevin mccarthy but then demand nothing out of someone else and be willing to vote for them as speaker. marjorie taylor greene saying the american people are sick of drama. has marjorie taylor greene met marjorie taylor greene? that s rich. three days, 11 rounds of slvoti and still no speaker. good morning, everyone. kaitlan is in washington d.c., again. and kevin mccarthy is suffering a historic defeat. hours from now, what will happy ahead of the chamber s 12th vote. they re hoping there s a glimmer of hope. there have been tense negotiations happening behind closed doors, questions whether or not a final proposal may be on the horizon. something that mccarthy and some of the party holdouts can agree on. we ll wait to see if the hard liners can. and also this morning what we are laerearning about the suspect of
fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re goin