the anchor of the lead, jake tapper. there is some drama about boehner, whether or not he will be the speaker of the house, almost certainly he will. but he faces some opposition. we don t know if that opposition has any momentum. probably they do not. but remember you don t need a majority of the 435 members to throw a wrench into the works. you just need just over two dozen in order to throw a wrench into the works. boehner has been challenged before. it hasn t really gone anywhere. but it is an opportunity for some of the tea party caucus or as boehner and his aides refer to them the hell, no caucus because they think they stand in the way of any compromise to voice their opposition to boehner s leadership. this vote on the floor of the house representatives, you need a majority 218 votes of the 435 remembers. the republicans have a lot more than that. but if 29 republicans decide they don t want speaker boehner to remain the speaker of the house, there could be a second
and the icao said indonesia maybe complied with about 40%, is all, of their safety recommendations so it did not surprise me and i think that as the investigation goes on, we will find more things amiss. did flying without the permission cause the plane to go down? no. but did it contribute to it? well, yes, because that means that you re slack in how you follow the laws and regulations and i think we ll find lax attitudes towards weather and oversight of pilots crew coordination et cetera. so it concerns me greatly but it s not new. indonesia has been under criticism for many years for not being standards. mary schiavo, thanks so much for being with us. we ll have more on this later this hour. now other news this morning. history being made on capitol hill. republicans taking control of both houses of congress for the first time in nearly a decade. more women than ever will be serving in the house. 62 democrats, 22 republicans. vice president joe biden will swear in the new senato
strengthening their own party. so john boehner over the past several years has been held hostage by this same group of tea party republicans in the house. as a result we had a government shutdown we had a default a downgrade in our credit rating and congress basically shut down got nothing done. so the strength of this tea party faction group in the house is very concerning to all parties involved not just john boehner. it s more than just about his speakership. it s about our ability to compromise. well, the government didn t shut down because of conservatives and things didn t get done because you had an obstructionist harry reid in the senate that would allow every bill to die and not allow votes to come up for the white house. so we won t have that anymore because harry reid no longer has that job, mitch mcconnell does so it will be a whole new ball game when it comes to actually passing bills and getting them the president s desk. let s let them settle that in washington ove
because we have a member of the new incoming congress standing by with cnn s chief congressional correspondent dana bash. dana? john 246 republicans will make up this new majority. and we have one of the new members, mimi walters. you told me you just came from getting your pin. i did. i just got my pin. i m to proud. people are looking at this new congress saying really we have a poll out this morning that shows that the expectations are not that high that things will be much better. as new member how do you expect to try to make things better and change public opinion? we re committed to having plan put forward and putting legislation on the president s desk that will move america forward. i m very excited to be a part of it. one of the big first votes you ll have to take is for speaker of the house. will you vote for john boehner? i absolutely will vote for speaker boehner. he is the right man to lead us. and have you gotten calls from those who are trying to
be perfectly happy, right? well not so much. house speaker john boehner is facing a challenge to his leadership a small group of conservative lawmakers. right now numbers about 12, 13 depending on who you ask, they say they may have more on the way. they will vote later today on the house floor, they say they are going to try to block john baner from boehner from becoming the speaker once again. if they get 29 members to vote against him, they could force a second ballot which would be hugely embarrassing. most people don t think they can reach that number but if they get close it will be very very embarrassing as i said for the speaker. let s talk more about this. i want to bring in tara setmeyer, a republican strategist and stephanie cutter a democratic strategist. tara i want to start with you here. pl there haven t been this many republicans in the house since harry truman was president, or maybe even herbert hoover. a long time since a little bit