lifting off just lifted off for palm beach, florida we ll be delivering remarks tonight at mar-a-lago at 8:15 eastern time. the hearing was shocking to many in that they had no case, no surprises. therefore, no case. virtually every legal pundit has said that there is no legal case here. there s nothing done illegally. let s go live to bryan llenas in new york with the latest on this case. what we saw today. bryan? bret, good evening, well video cam cameras were not allod inside the courtroom. our courtroom producer said that the former president trump walked in with a swagger and he had a stern face. and at the end of his arraignment, he glared at manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. the man attempting to put him behind bars. former president trump stone-faced walked in new york criminal court after he was arrested and fingerprinted behind closed doors at the manhattan criminal courthouse. inside the courtroom, photographers captured trump sitting with his attorneys
hello, and welcome to inside politics, i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. welcome to the new house. kevin mccarthy starts his speakership with a giant fight over the rules. republican hopes to stop fighting and start governing clouded by the same math problem that dogged mccarthy s battle to win the gavel. plus, a summit surrounded by tension. president biden is in mexico for a big meeting of the three amigos. he is there one day after his first up close look at a persistent humanitarian and political problem, the southern border. and rioters stoked by lies about an election breach barricades, ran sack offices, and set fire to a democratic institution. brazil s far right copies the january 6th model with its own attempted coup. we begin today with kevin mccarthy s first big test now that the gavel is finally his. house republicans today returned to the capitol to adopt a rules package, a blueprint designed to govern the next two years
series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries today. we ll come back tonight and i believe at that time we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. i think getting together and just finding the ability to how are we all going to work together? it s new for us. one, being in the majority but being in a tight majority. i think at the end of the day we re going to be more effective. more efficient. and definitely the government is going to be more accountable. the dam finally broke after mccarthy made concessions to. they will score k
the g.o.p. primary. there s a lot of questions about what that means long-term and how capitol hill kind of interprets everything. and how the voters interpret everything. yeah. you know, one thing i have been watching today as we have seen this all unfold is just the varied responses we are seeing from lawmakers. obviously my email has been full of statements from across the aisle and, of course, there are many people who are responding in a way you would expect. you would expect members like margely taylor greene to come to the defense of the president. you expect members like alexandria ocasio-cortez to, you know, go after the former president but there have been some interesting takes as well. look at senator romney s response. bret: i will read that. a statement from mitt romney. i believe president trump s character and conduct make him unfit for office even so i believe the new york prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda.
because i don t think there s any other option. you re in now. he is too important to critical members of your conference to be at any other place. did i think that that necessitated kevin mccarthy s first word after becoming speaker of the house being to thank and n grandiose terms donald trump for all the things that happened in the world? probably not. that s where they are at this point in time. almost like once you re in this deeply you have no other choice. to some degree, though, i i m skeptical of the idea that this dramatically turns around his standing in the sense these are his people. these 20, as margely taylor greene said, they were endorsed by him, were advocates. still took 14 votes to get everybody together and as marjorie taylor greene said he was staying in touch. did he help turn them in the end? i don t think there s a question about that. is that as big a deal as people are framing it? i don t think so it is. if you re kevin mccarthy and saying trump may have