reporters moments ago. right now, the speaker of the house is that does not do benefits for anybody out here. so, the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head i know you guys get excited. i don t think if you watch me that i get excited so i want to go through all this? no. but i think, at the end of the day, it s better to go through this now so we can be successful for this term. you failed three times. how do you possibly pull this off? backing out? you guys ask me the same question a lot. i will let you know when that happens. at the beginning there, you heard kevin mccarthy that the clerk of the house, cheryl johnson, is now in charge of the house of representatives, and he isn t. that is tonight s last, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, the cracks in the republican party on full display on capitol hill, and still no speaker. something that hasn t happened in 100 years. all of today s drama from the house fl
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
allegedly threatening guards from his jail cell. you better believe he has been read his rights anything he says can and will be used against him. the price tag for covid school closures could tropic $28 trillion. a new study by stanford economists project students will miss out on $70,000 each over their lifetime. mitchell for 3. unbelievable. oh my goodness. [cheers] i don t know what to say. that s not necessary. just a dynamite performance. brian: they are celebrating in basketball but not in football. we begin this morning with a fox news alert. damar hamlin is in critical condition after one of the most shocking moments that we have seen ever in any sport. steve: the bills safety leaving the field in an ambulance with his mother after a hit during a monday night football matchup with the bengals. the nfl has postponed the game out of grave concern about mr. hamlin s health. and todd piro joins us live with the latest. todd? steve, ainsley and bri
we ve got another month stuff of playoffs people are gonna get hurt, but he gonna get hurt. or is it gonna be over for wmbf theism. we re so used to that impact becomes part of the fantasy thing, a lot of people a fantasy because they fantasy points where connected this. the law to people, this isn t even real. these are just cartoon characters that were smashing at each other, getting up, and moving on. the country holding an him for tonight, his name is tomorrow, ambling 24 years old buffalo bills, at the hospital, unclear of his condition, but the game is off and for good reason. bill rhoden, joining us on zero notice tonight, watching this unfold along with us, thank you very much. all right, that s gonna do it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence, i m sort of stepping on your hour there. onplay, this is exactly what persimmon fall is 20 minutes or so, i never seen anything like this. and the other they ve now it
you both so much for joining us for our breaking news coverage of the injuries suffered by damar hamlin in tonight s bills game. that is tonight s last word. our continuing coverage now continues on the 11th hour with stephanie. it starts now. it starts now. good evening, i am stephanie. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news and sports. tonight monday night football game has been postponed until further notice. 24 year damar hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle while playing against the cincinnati bangles. he was on the field for more than ten minutes while medical teams performed cpr and gave him oxygen. he left the game in an ambulance and was taken to the university of cincinnati medical center. the nfl now says he is in critical condition, but there is still a lot we do not know at this point. i want to bring in j.a. he is on the phone with us. he covers the buffalo bills for the buffalo news. thank you for joining us. what a night this has