Good evening, everyone. Im laura coates, here with abby philip, and this is a Special Edition of cnn tonight. Kevin mccarthy, i listed as house speaker, he says hes not dont even run again. Now, the house will be in recess for a week. Theyre not even planning to return till next tuesday night for cough conference meetings, before then, a Potential Vote later that week on electing a new speaker. So that means the house will be closed for business, maybe well get another speaker. Me while, because he lost that speakership gavel today, police said this tonight. These are the same people that never voted for me, they thought it was big they went to present. After we went through 15 rounds. Im not quite sure those individuals are looking to be productive. Well, this is certainly a moment in american history. And a series of a number of moments that weve never seen anything like before. Never before has a speaker lost the job in a vote on the house floor. And it happened with the pounding of
Morning joe we can. Lets get to some conversations from this week that you might have missed an Arizona Grand Jury has indicted 11 of these local collectors, along with several other allies of donald trump, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A 58 page indictment including conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges related to attempts, by the defendants, to change the Election Results of donald trump this was the scene on december 14th, 2020, when 11 people met at the Republican Party headquarters in phoenix to sign a certificate, claiming to be arizonas 11 electors, despite joe biden winning. What are you guys doing . You are the 11,000 votes probably broadcasting it. What are they thinking . What are they thinking . I just cant. Like okay, we are fraudulent electors. There is a fraud scheme going on here. Lets put the cameras on. Maybe they are providing evidence. They were thinking ahead three and half years down the road, they are really going to need this as evidence. Here
Do you get these calls in secret where guys go listen, i cant say it publicly but im for you and im going to vote for you. Im a republican but screw it, i cant vote for this guy . Theyre not saying theyre going to vote for me, theyre saying i agree with you. Do you say to them, why dont you Say Something publicly . Where is jeb bush, where is george bush, where are these guys . Why dont they say, hey, im interested in saving democracy for our grandchildren . I dont think the election is over yet on that score. If you notice traffic was especially snarled in New York City today, asked and answered. That was President Biden in midtown, manhattan today to be interviewed by radio legend howard stern. While former President Donald Trump was in Lower Manhattan back in a courthouse for his criminal trial. And that is where we begin tonight. At the end of the first week for a 12member Jury Empanelled in the first ever criminal trial of a former president. Today was the final day of the prosecu
Judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr. , dana perino, and tyrus. Its 5 00 in new york city, and this is the five. Day 6 of the salem trump trials. It all started with the judge hearing the prosecutions request for trump to be held in Contempt Of Court for allegedly violating his gag order ten times. Aka, muzzling the leading president ial candidate in the think of an election. D. A. Alvin braggs team mustve gotten cold feet. Today they said they dont want to lock up trump for speaking his mind, they just want to slap him with hefty fines. The judge hasnt made up his mind yet on what he is going to do. Then to the main show. Exnational enquirer publisher david pecker was back on the stand. The prosecution hoping to convince the jury that trump tried to hide damaging stories ahead of the 2016 election. Pecker testified that he has been catching and telling stories for a long time, which is perfectly legal, last time we checked, and pecker began doing it for trump starting in 2015. He also
week s program, i used pretty strong language to slam the new york times for swallowing hamas propaganda with that initial headline, israelis kill hundreds in hospital, palestinians say, which was flatly untrue. the day after the show, the times essentially apologized saying in an editor s note the paper relied too heavily on claims by hamas and did not make clear those claims could not be legally verified. times editors should have taken more care and been more explicit sit about what information could be verified. i give the paper credit, but the damage, the enflaming of the region, cannot be undone. and cnn has now run a correction to its first story blaming israel for the hospital explosion which was caused by an errant islamic jihad rocket. as israel conducts its second incursion into gaza, the hamas terrorists have now released two israeli hostages, an 85-year-old woman and a 79-year-old woman. just think about that for a minute, amid all the rush of other war news.