and it s about a young man at 24 years old that was living his dream, that a few hours ago was getting ready to play the biggest game of his nfl career and there was probably nowhere else in the world he wanted to be, and now he fights for his life. we forget that part of living this dream is putting your life at risk. and tonight, you know, we got to see a side of football that is extremely ugly. shock and sadness during monday night football. buffalo bills safety demar hamlin is in critical condition this morning in a cincinnati hospital. he suffered cardiac arrest following a hit during last night s game. we re following the latest on his condition this morning and also the outpouring of support. also this morning, kevin mccarthy has already moved into the speaker s office on capitol hill despite an influential group of republicans who have vowed to vote against him today. we ll tell you why we may see something on the hill today that hasn t happened in 100 years. we re
to your district. i ll die a political death before your district gets a dime. again, i mean, i ve heard tougher things said behind closed doors on capitol hill. i just wonder if mccarthy is limiting himself by going after wacs. there s no prospect that he s going to be able to make a deal with democrats. what s interesting about this, brendan buck made this point in the new york times, this is a majortarian body. with 218 votes you can get a lot done. without 218 votes, you can t get anything done. and kevin mccarthy one way or the other does not have those 218 votes. nobody else does, and, so, you know, you have to think about what is the end game here? what is the most positive outcome, and frankly, i cannot come up with anything that does not lead to an incredibly
200 and whatever, 215-5 and you re destroying the republican party, and because he s never going to be able to negotiate with them. he s going to have to run them over. he s just, and if he can t run it over, and if these five people are going to hold him hostage, his speakership hostage for the next two years, it s not a speakership worth having. exactly. and by the way, they don t have anybody to replace mccarthy. so call their bluff. it s really his only good option at this point. well, the vote on the next speaker of the house seems unlikely to be decided on the first ballot, something that hasn t happened in a hundred years in what could be a premature move, kevin mccarthy continued to move his belongings
going to have on display, this amazing clown car. all the focus is on, of course, these five holdouts here, but think about kevin mccarthy whose speakership now rests on the vote of people like george santos and marjorie taylor greene. the closer you look, the worse this gets for the republican party. on the day that should have been the big celebration of the red wave. so think about this alternative reality. normally when a political party takes power, this is a moment of celebration. people are feeling good. they re celebrating, and you re not going to be seeing that over the next 12 hours in washington, d.c. as i keep trying to remind my former republican brothers and sisters, it didn t have to be this way. they didn t have to follow donald trump down the rabbit hole. they didn t have to push qanon conspiracy theories. they didn t have to push election denying. they didn t have to be the radical extremists that they were. they made the choice.
effort to become speaker goes down in failure. jen psaki, there were five never kevins and right now, there are nine who seem like probably not kevins, and that s a pretty tough hill to climb for mccarthy. so give us your analysis, though, of just how weak not just this makes mccarthy but the republican party, and what sort of opportunity for perhaps mischief does this present for the democrats. it doesn t have to be mischief, jonathan. if we put this in perspective, it s been almost two months since the election, while it was a narrow majority the republicans won, they knew they were going to be able to take over the speakership. kevin mccarthy knew that, and we re going into this vote today without knowing, no one knows, even kevin mccarthy, whether or not he has the votes. that s a basic rule of politics. don t go into any vote, not knowing whether you have the votes or not. so for democrats, no one would have predicted at this point, the democrats are celebrating hakeem jeffries