the senior republican, kevin mccarthy, says he s confident he ll win enough support today to be elected speaker of the us house of representatives. so far he s failed thirteen times, leading to deadlock in the chamber. it comes on the second anniversary of the january the sixth attack on the us capitol building. the latest session has been adjourned for several hours but mccarthy is just a handful of votes short of victory. with the latest, here s gary 0 donoghue. commemorating the heroes of january the 6th two years ago for their courage in the face of overwhelming odds. it was the moment american democracy teetered on the brink, as protesters, supporters of donald trump, stormed the capitol, bent on preventing the ratification ofjoe biden s victory. you know, for those who lost someone on that day, they re proud as the devil that their kin are being honoured, but, boy, is it hard. up on capitol hill, democrat members of the house marked the moment in solemn silence, while d
he is giving the wrong impression when he makes those comments. it s not how the british army sees things. the senior republican, kevin mccarthy, says he s confident he ll win enough support today to be elected speaker of the us house of representatives. so far, he s failed thirteen times, leading to deadlock in the chamber. the latest session, which comes on the second anniversary of the january sixth attack on the us capitol, has been adjourned for several hours. but mr mccarthy is just a handful of votes short of victory. with the latest, here s gary 0 donoghue. commemorating the heroes of january the 6th two years ago for their courage in the face of overwhelming odds. it was the moment american democracy teetered on the brink, as protesters, supporters of donald trump, stormed the capitol, bent on preventing the ratification ofjoe biden s victory. you know, for those who lost someone on that day, they re proud as the devil that their kin are being honoured, but, boy, is
puerto rico are still without power. many are waiting for vital fuel in the wake of hurricane fiona. the congressman who just visited the island will tell us what he saw on the ground. also we are taking a closer look at what to expect from tomorrow s highly anticipated january 6th committee hearing when the panel is set to clip from roger stone s new documentary. the obstacles are these weak-kneed bureaucrats in the white house council s office. now they must be crushed. meanwhile in russia as more military men flee the country, the kremlin now acknowledges issues with its latest draft in yet another blow to putin s military strategy in ukraine. the former president of ukraine will join us with more on that. we begin this hour with a very latest on hurricane ian, which made land falls in western cuba at 4:30 a.m. eastern bringing heavy rain and maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. the latest tracking shows ian could reach florida s western coast as early as wed
very clear, too, that no one, no one, including a president of the united states, is above the law. by the way, today is the six-year anniversary of that speech in indiana. happy anniversary to the president, as the fbi goes through his documents this morning. what a long road it s been. you know, he actually, i guess, in 2018, willie, he passed a law. he signed a law that actually made the protection of classified material even stronger. that is a good thing to do. it is a good thing to do. he said in the campaign law and order party. he was going to protect all classified information. so says it in the campaign. willie, he actually passes legislation. kept his word. he signs it, comes into law. that the penalties for not protecting classified information going to be even tougher because of hillary clinton s emails. yeah, remember the context of that speech six years ago was all about hillary clinton and the emails and the private server that she had.
Right . You would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. None of this goes perfectly from a prosecutors perspective. Danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the Defense Attorneys perspective. This is why you have redirect. This is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. As much as you plan, you have to be flexible. Is the prosecution happy with the cross . If i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1 2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. Keep doing it. I think at some point, jose, youre losing your jury. I take anas point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. My goal is to never lose my jury. And if youre saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think youre losing your jury. There is an agony in a crossexamining of a witness