This is cnns special live coverage of an historic vote on capitol hill. Im jake tapper. This has not happened in more than 100 years. But facing a revolt from a small but powerful group of republican hardliners, mccarthy says he will bring up a motion to vacate in the first series of votes today that is just minutes away. I truly believe, though, the institution of the house, at the end of the day if you throw a speaker out that has 99 of their conference, that kept government open and paid the troops, i think were in a really bad place for how were going to run congress. Speaker mccarthy says he thinks he will survive the vote and that he will not make a deal with democrats to keep his job but that may not even be an option anyway. Heres the speaker earlier today. Democrats have been huddling today. Democrats are signaling they will not be coming to Speaker Mccarthys rescue. Lets get right to the action on capitol hill. Cnns manu raju and lauren fox join me now. Manu, ill start with y
To be false. Reports that iraq today show al qaeda has taken over the cities of fallujah and friday to iraqi cities that were strongholds when they joined the iraq war. Secretary of state john kerry made it clear the. Raqi government is on its jay carney confirming his sentiment earlier in the day putting the responsibility on congress not the commander in chief. This is something for the iraqis to take the lead on and handle themselves but that does not mean we cannot assist them and we have. I heard members of congress suggest this but if they suggest there are troops dying and fighting in fallujah today, they should say so. Lou at the same time talking about afghanistan to keep our troops and their country to combat terrorism calling on card side to sign the Bilateral Agreement immediately. The best policy is to maintain a presence there focus solely on the mission that i mentioned. But he cannot and will not do that absent the agreement by the Afghan Government move quickly to sign
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Tested and its not in question. Nixon was forced to produce the tapes and bill clinton was compelled to participate in a civil, not a criminal but a civil case. So the idea that the president could be subpoenaed is not open to question. Harris lets go to the White House Correspondent kevin corke on the north lawn. Good afternoon. What himes said is this is never tested. So we dont know if mueller will try to subpoena the president and we dont know what the courts might say moving forward. From the white house perspective, they would take this to the u. S. Supreme court. The president has been forceful in his criticism of the mueller team to have the antitrump partisans and operating far afield from original mandate. The president on his favorite social media platform on twitter saying the following 13 angry democrats in charge of the russia witch hunt are starting to find out that there is a court system in place that actually protects people from injustice. And just wait until the cou
Standoff with donald trump jr. Considering pleading the fifth or not appearing before the panel at all. And two shooters, two alleged shooters are in custody. One appears in court as a student who tried to protect classmates is mourned as a hero. And yet another community is devastated just miles from the Columbine High School. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, the House Judiciary Committee has just voted to hold the attorney general, william barr,contempt of congress for refuse to go provide an unredacted version of the Mueller Report. The Party Line Vote follows President Trumps move to exert executive privilege over the entire report and its underlying evidence. Its the latest clash in whats now an allout battle between House Democrats and the Trump Administration which has moved to block congressional investigations on every front. Jerry nadler says a constitutional crisis is already at hand while the white house accuses him of a blatant abuse of power. I