Pelosi said this. I think of it as a responsibility as we go forward. And this isnt breaking a glass ceiling, this is breaking a marble ceiling in the capitol of the United States. Cnns Sunlen Serfaty is on capitol hill. Between nancy pelosi and her news and all these new freshmen members on both the house and senate, youve been talking to so many of this many, whats the feeling up on capitol hill right now . I think its an emotional day for many people, especially those incoming members. I can tell you in talking to a lot of them, the ones that make up the most diverse class into history ever, i think the moment is just not lost on them. They know their place in history. As theyre sworn in today, that are feeling the gravity of that moment, their place in history. This freshman class certainly ushering in a new face to congress as we said, the most diverse and the record breaking number of women, certainly a big notable storyli line coming aft midterms. I want to highlight one touchin
There. Hi, doug. We have some new numbers for you. These are tabulated by chad pergram, who is a better counter than i am. Chad has the total for pelosi at 219. The next for Kevin Mccarthy at 192. 18 ballots were cast for other candidates. So nancy pelosi has it. Now, the fact that she has secured the speakership, we enter a new phase of the government shut down. Some say theres a bit more hope here now that nancy pelosi has secured her left flank. Fended off the left flank of the far left wing of the Democratic Party who was threatening to vote against her if she included any border wall funding in any of the bills. So that is taken care of. That said, now that shes won the prize, theres been no change in pelosis position. Shes agreed to take up the two spending bills, which you just mentioned later this afternoon. Broken down in two parts. One of the spending bills would fund six government agencies. The other would fund the department of Homeland Security but would include any fundi
Only support but act on and vote for in the past with absolutely no controversy on either side of the aisle. So this is calling the question in terms of whether or not the border wall is the thing that republicans in the senate want to be known for in terms of keeping the Government Shutdown. This absolutely eliminates all other variables and puts them on them. For this and other reasons this next hour is going to proceed with a theme, and its something i have stolen from a headline in the New York Times today which is that 2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trumps life. And we are going to carry that through the hour on several different fronts. You know, didnt everybody have a terrible 7th grade, though . Do we really know i mean we have a feeling he didnt. We just have a feeling he didnt. Fair enough. Theres something that feels a little spoiled in this background. I dont know. I may be a little overreaching there. Yeah, adult life. Its going to be like the year of the unindicted
History, now 55 members. Tonight its worth noting that while donald trump ran on banning muslims and issued a travel ban limiting immigrants from several muslim majority countries, voters responded by electing the first Muslim American ever to the United States congress. And while trump continues to bait Elizabeth Warren over native american issues, voters also elected the first native American Woman to ever serve in the u. S. Congress. You look at this, and you look at whats happening, you look at a historic day for america, and i can add that sometime we may reach a point where this type of diversity is not worth noting. Someday the people in power may so thoroughly reflect the people of this nation that we dont even think to note it. But tonight we do note it, and as someone reporting the news, i can tell you people in both parties today gave the requisite and merited props to a legislator who made history as the first woman ever to be speaker of the house and the second woman to ev
And we begin with breaking news. The major power shift in d. C. Where democrats now officially control the house. Speaker nancy pelosi took back the gavel moments ago. To the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, i extend to you this gavel. [applause] trace the freshman class of lawmakers bringing a whole new dynamic to capitol hill aside from being the most racially diverse, more than 40 Women Joining congress. Once the fanfare is done, its down to business. Now the government shut down stretching into day 13 and still without any end in sight. We have team fox coverage. Kevin corke is at the white house. David spunt is in the washington bureau. First to Kristina Partsinevelos reporting live on capitol hill. Kristina . Yeah, you got a divided group of people here right now starting on the congress, 116th congress. What we have is we know that nancy pelosi was elected. You have 220 votes out of a possible 430. Yesterday we had Many Democrats tell fox news specifically that they would def