welcome to our viewers on pbs in america the first sitting of the new us house of representatives has been full of drama. three attempts to elect republican kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house have failed. he hasn t been able to secure enough support from his own party. a group of right wing republicans have refused to back him, and the california congressman has refused to drop out of the race. it s the first time in 100 years that a speaker hasn t been elected in the opening round of voting. here s our north america correspondent peter bowes. the heart of us government deadlocked because its members can t agree on who will be the next speaker. the house of representatives is meeting for the first time at the start of the first time at the start of the new congress with the republicans in charge. pursuant to law and republicans in charge. pursuant to law and precedent, republicans in charge. pursuant to law and precedent, the - republicans in charge. pursuant to law a
we ll get to that, but the big story this morning. oh, yeah. what happened on the football field last night. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing on the football field. just 24 years old now in the hospital in critical condition. get you updates on that, of course. also, house republican leader kevin mccarthy s bid to be speaker plagued with uncertainty still this morning. the concessions he has made may not be enough to win him the support he needs to become speaker. if you can believe it. kaitlan? yeah. once the new congress is sworn in, the republican majority in the house is promising a wave of investigations. partisan gridlock, could stall president biden s agenda. big questions about what that will look like as well. uh-huh. our big story this morning, we re going to start with buffalo bills player damar hamlin. hospitalized in critical condition after collapsing and suffering cardiac arrest on the field monday night. wha
hah keep jeffries. cleaver? jeffries. cline? kevin mccarthy. cloud? jim jordan. clyburn? jeffries. clyde? biggs. cohen? hakeem jeffries. cole? mccarthy. collins? as we listen to the roll being called by my count, five republicans have voted against mccarthy for speaker. two voted for jim jordan, one included boebert. and two for andy biggs. garrett haake, by my count that s five and he could only lose four. on this first role call, he said he will keep this going vote after vote until they get worn down or something breaks. is that your take? we never call votes until they are over, but in this case, i now count six, one more since we came on the air. clyde voting for andy biggs, one of the leaders of this rebel group. six republicans so far voting against kevin mccarthy. if the math holds through the remainder of the alphabet, as we have every reason to expect it will, with all democrats voing for hakeem jeffries, we do appear to be in a s
Is the pressure to take bigger Action Builds yet again on the white house. We need help. We need it now. We need people from the top. We are talking from our president , our Vice President regards a border city mayor and democrat declaring State Of Emergency as thousands upon thousands of migrants flow into the country. The president pointing the finger across the aisle Progressive Republicans and congress and my predecessor had four years of gutting the Immigration System under my predecessor. They continue to undermine our Border Security. Cracks will get reaction from Border State Democrat texas congressman Henry Cuellar. Plus. The Nations Autoworkers Expend their strike into 20 states. President biden says he will join the picket line in michigan on tuesday just the day before donald trump will be there too. Meanwhile another president ial hopeful pushes back. We need a president who says we are not going to subsidize unions. Will discuss with the man whose eyes are on the white ho
We need help. We need it now. We need people from the top. We are talking from our president , our Vice President regards a border city mayor and democrat declaring State Of Emergency as thousands upon thousands of migrants flow into the country. The president pointing the finger across the aisle Progressive Republicans and congress and my predecessor had four years of gutting the Immigration System under my predecessor. They continue to undermine our Border Security. Cracks will get reaction from Border State Democrat texas congressman Henry Cuellar. Plus. The Nations Autoworkers Expend their strike into 20 states. President biden says he will join the picket line in michigan on tuesday just the day before donald trump will be there too. Meanwhile another president ial hopeful pushes back. We need a president who says we are not going to subsidize unions. Will discuss with the man whose eyes are on the white house. South carolina senator tim scott. Then, the second republican presiden