were, you know, put in exile. that s what they ll have to get to. you ll have the folks. mary miller just miller. let s wait and see, chip roy and if you have scott perry voting yes, you ll have the serious people will now come over to kevin and then you ll have the kind of the clown show for lack of a better phrase, right? the people who are just they re just here for theater, right? if those are the folks still outstanding mccarthy will win. that s i think the key point. that was mary miller. mary miller who had previously been part of the bloc of 20 just flipped her vote. you see this building momentum in terms of flitting the bloc of the 20 who are obstinate against mccarthy. the thing to look at if you don t read the tea leaves of politics every day, the difference if that 20 between the intransigent ones there not in good faith to simply make a stand and show and frankly burn the house down, and the ones who have principled policy differences where they re
republicans nominate a candidate for governor. the trumpism is wiping away a more moderate republican brand. and a celebration that reminds us friends can also be rivals. president biden welcomes president obama back to the white house. up first for us, though, the shocking and giant national security concerns this hour sparked by the former president of the united states. the washington post reporting today among the documents recovered at mar-a-lago was one including the nuclear capabilities. it s so secret, it requires a need to know clearance. so secret, it s supposed to be under watch and under lock and key 24/7. it s unclear at this moment just where on trump s resort the fbi agent found those documents or what country s defense secrets it could expose. what is clear, the document was never supposed to be there. it s very troubling this type of information would be there, or anywhere for that matter. the issue is not just about the content of the report but what it
personal matter, but i am now told from a democratic source that he is on his way back. why would he be on his way back? because in the complicated math of having to win a majority of those voting on the floor other than those voting present who do not count, right now kevin mccarthy only needs to pick up three republicans to get the magic number 216 to become speaker, but this democrat tells me and i m no math expert, but this is what they say, they have people who do this professionally, if david trone comes back, that will mean that kevin mccarthy will not need 216 votes to become speaker, he will need 217. the democrats want to keep the threshold higher. yes, they want to make it tougher. they want to move the bar, exactly, move the bar higher to make it tougher for mccarthy. although the question is, what s happening on the floor right
joyce was saying, account for over a quarter of the state s total population. but having a voting majority in only one of its seven congressional districts. i m no math expert but i can tell you that does not accurately reflect a quarter of the population, 1 out of 7. that disparity was addressed in justice kagan s dissent. she wrote separately for herself and i want to read a part of it for our audience. it says, it does a disservice to black alabamans, who, under the precedent have had their electoral power diminished in violation of a law this court once knew to buttress all of american democracy. look it is black history month. we are talking about alabama. the same state where the march