This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. House republicans taking up the fight today over who replaces john boehner as speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy was the hef va favorite, but he has surprisingly dropped out. A group of conservatives are now saying it will back florida congressman Daniel Webster instead. Michael shure joins us from capitol hill. Michael this announcement that mccarthy is pulling out, a big surprise. What happened . Reporter randall you have no idea, inasmuch as a habit here theres pandemonium. The republican from pennsylvania walked out of the room here on the capitol, and he said to the gathered press, here, he said, hey, its over, mccarthy dropped out. And that means that there is something of a delay, certainly in the way they are voting. Other congressmen followed him out. Mccarthy just stood up there, and said it very quietly. He said im out. Im not going to stand for this anymore. So who is Daniel Webster . And who is back
That were set just when those minutes came out. You were watching the yield on the ten year as well. It looked like people were anticipating, oh, this is going to suggest theyre going to be soon. So the yields moved higher and then, bam, they fall off a cliff right after the minutes come out and now they are back to where they were before. Market cant decide. As that dollar moved lower oil moved to a high we havent seen since july. The euro at a two week high against the dollar, all kinds of movements and benchmarks set today. Netflix announce ago 1 price hike for some customers and those customers may not be happy about it but investors are happy about it because the stock around around midday on that news. More details coming up. And we havent forgotten about the big story out of washington today, House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy dropping out of the race for speaker. Now who could take that job . John boehner is going to have to stay there until somebody is elected. Who better to
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To do in the operational needs of the i. T. This is one where the requirements are in b. Has just a couple moments left in this program. We will go live now to hear from congressman Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight committee in this morning to accept the legislative agenda for 2016. The utah republican is at the Brookings Institution this morning. Later you should know this morning they will also share a hearing on oversight of the executive ranch life today on our companion network cease injury starting not 10 00 eastern. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings until you met for joining us today. Im honored youre to have congressman Jason Chaffetz from the state of utah with us today to discuss government oversight. Hes the chairman of the house accountability Oversight Committee and he will talk today about various things in the committee discusses, covers, analyzes and tries to keep government accountable to the tax payer in citizen doing its job as well as possible
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