i m jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we ll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug in. ballots 10 and 11, no show of momentum towards mccarthy. something his allies said he needed to demonstrate then and still needs to demonstrate soon. this farce in the house is also clashing with a deadly and sobering anniversary. lawmakers crowded the capitol steps earlier today to mark two years since the mob emboldened and incited by donald trump s many lies about the election tried to preve
Republicans are mired in a fight with one another that has set us on the path towards a devastating Government Shutdown that is now just six days away. A small group of House Republican extremists are continuing to hold up any sort of meaningful action on the matter with their refusal to even consider a short term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution. That is a measure that could realistically be brought to the floor of congress over the next few days before the funding runs out next saturday at midnight. Instead, republican holdouts want to consider each appropriations bill separately. A more time consuming an extensive process that would definitely take more than a week. Ahead of a call with republicans yesterday afternoon, Speaker Mccarthy expressed a bit of hope, telling reporters what he thinks when it gets down to crunch, time the holdouts will, quote hopefully move off. A few hours later, however the louisiana congressman this man here and ally who wasnt struggled in t
Lawmakers. The lead starts right now. Volodymyr zelenskyy in d. C. Making his rounds on capitol hill and now he is at the white house. His pleas as House Republicans cant agree on how to fund the u. S. Government, much less a foreign war. And chances of a deal now stalled as lawmakers are sent home for the weekend. Plus, a border emergency. Migrants flood a texas Town Crawling under barbed wire costing a little boy his life as his family tried to swim across the Rio Grande River. And alleged horer in a warehouse dubbed the brave case, strip searches of suspects including a grandmother, it is alleged. Im pamela brown in for jake tapper and we begin with our world lead as right now President Joe Biden meets with ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the white house. Zelenskyy on a laser focused mission in washington, d. C. , secure more aid at all costs quoted as saying if we dont get the aid, we will lose the war. Russia even after 19 months of relentless attacks against ukraine sh
inside the memoir are a ton of revelation, including this one, to perk up the ears of prosecutors and jack smith s office. cheney reveals mccarthy told her two days after the election he talked to trump and trump acknowledged he had lost the 2020 election. he needs to go through all the stages of grief, he said. cheney writes, she thought to herself those stages seemed to involve tweeting in all caps. we all know what happened after the election. donald trump fights desperately to overturn his election defeat. kevin mccarthy enabled him every step of the way. liz cheney says about the current speaker, cheney recounts how johnson pressured members to throw out election results from four states trump had lost. when i confirmed with him the flaws in his legal argument, he would say something to effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump. according to cheney, that effectively became the republican party ice agenda. here s what happened just before the capitol was
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