live coverage. and aim jake tapper in washington. the united states still without a house speaker this hour and there is no sign that republicans are going to be able to settle on one any time soon. kevin mccarthy is going to come up short a fourth time. that s the vote we re watching right now. the hard-line opposition of about 20 rebels backing congressman byron donalds of florida this go-around. this vote is playing out as we re seeing quite an interesting split screen moment on the left side of your screen. you see senator senator minority leader mitch mcconnell at an event in kentucky with president biden there talking about the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was only passed because of democrats and republicans working together and now you see on the screen a place where bipartisanship is not happening, in fact, barely partisanship when it comes to republicans. cnn is tracking everything as it happens vote by vote. let s start with lauren fox. kevin mccarthy s a
jeffries. my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. sandra: congressman elect donalds will be joining us in a moment, byron donalds is watching for the final vote cast on the float and then hop in front of the camera and join us live. john: first we go to chad pergram live on capitol hill. chad, looks like groundhog day today. well, right now the one thing we know is that they are not going to elect a speaker of the house on this roll call vote. the first vote of the day, the fourth overall in the past two days and kevin mccarthy has not been able to get an outright majority of
Happens when america retreats from the region and we dont play of the role of posing a balance of power and when we let the countrys fight it out between themselves. It is not just our interest in allies and our interest in allies like jordan and israel but it is because this is throughout syria and turkey, and isis is trying to aggressively recruit United States citizens to join. It is believed that the weapons came from the turkish government. Senator cotton again, i have not seen other reports, so i cant comment on that. I did ask about if there was a mistake if we had a residual force agreement, and there was the agreement on blaming maliki on that. Why couldnt we have forced an agreement, why was that completely squandered . What was your view on that and could we have done something differently in 2011 and how do you feel as someone who served in iraq or someone who has finger on the pulse of how the military feels . Senator cotton i put responsibility chiefly with barack obama a
And we begin with new developments in the conflict in syria. Syrian president , bashar alassad, met with russian president , Vladimir Putin, during a surprise resist to moscow on tuesday. The trip comes weeks after russia began carrying out airstrikes in syria. And secretary of state john kerry discussed the conflict with his russian counterpart, serg gay lavrov. And the two will meet in moscow on friday to discuss the war. Lav from the pentagon with more, jamie. Reporter well, tony, the United States and russia are not just at odds in the skies over syria, but engaged in a Public Relations war offering vastly different narratives about whats happening on the ground. The video from the cameraman went viral this week, showing a syrian offensive last week in a northeastern sub besh of damascus. It shows the extent of the devastation near the syrian capital after four years of war. Misery, which the pentagon now accuses the russian air power of simply adding to. The russians have been ind
Commerce Committee Representative joe barton a republican of texas. Congressman barton a lot of proposals are coming out now not from the fcc yet but for members of congress in different groups about how to treat Net Neutrality. Your colleague henry waxman recently wrote to the fcc asking it to be reclassified as title ii. What is your reaction to back . Guest i respect henry a lot obviously but he is wrong. You are trying to use an old law passed back in the 1930s for an industry in the 21st century. Its been proven over and over again that the best solution to allocation issues and usage issues is an open transparent market with appropriate oversight by the federal and in some cases state and local government. We have a booming internet. We have a booming telecommunication system and by and large its because for the last 20 Years Congress and various president s have adopted more and more open marketbased policies towards telecommunications. For henry or the fcc to try to use and alm