and got word they are they are now going into a ninth vote. john: this will tie 1923, except they got a speaker on the ninth vote in 2023. sandra: unbelievable. the house floor on capitol hill, drama continues. i m sandra smith in new york. john: i m john roberts. i have a sense something will move in the next couple of days. martha with the martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. moments ago, house republican leader kevin mccarthy failed the eighth time to secure enough votes to become the speaker of the house. that small republican faction blocking him shows little signs of budging in their position at this hour. so both sides of the gop fight are here with us on the story today. michael waltz supporting kevin
0 and got word they are they are now going into a ninth vote. john: this will tie 1923, except they got a speaker on the ninth vote in 2023. sandra: unbelievable. the house floor on capitol hill, drama continues. i m sandra smith in new york. john: i m john roberts. i have a sense something will move in the next couple of days. martha with the martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. moments ago, house republican leader kevin mccarthy failed the eighth time to secure enough votes to become the speaker of the house. that small republican faction blocking him shows little signs of budging in their position at this hour. so both sides of the gop fight are here with us on the story today. michael waltz supporting kevin mccarthy for speaker. dan bishop does not. we ll hear from congressman elect burgess owens from utah. that s coming up. first to chad pergram with the back story and that back room dealings and going on. kevin mccarthy has yet to show progress in the firs
now downing street says it is committed to taking forward all those proposed tax cuts. given the government has got to somehow find money from somewhere. and by ministers own admissions, restore some stability and confidence in the financial markets. you get the sense something will have to give or change between now and the end of october. we shall see. this morning the foreign secretary james cleverley has said he does not understand why people were surprised or at least people should not have been surprised by what liz truss has donein been surprised by what liz truss has done in government giving everything she promised in the leadership contest and warned to get some extreme measures being talked about.
and boycott his inauguration. but when a retired teacher or a mom or a dad or somebody wants to go to their capital and protest what they saw as an election rife with lots of questions and fraudulent voting, somehow that s something untoward with their desire to speak up. why can t they also speak and why did bennie thompson say that josh holley and ted cruz should be on the no fly list for raising legitimate questions about the 2020 election? this two tiered justice system, this two tiered idea that if you re a conservative or you re republican or you re a trump supporter, you get through this kind of ghetto justice. and if you are somebody else who has these progressive views, it s fine. it s just agreed. but it s not your right to express what most americans don t have the time to kind of follow this . owthey sense something is really amiss. that s why they vote for members united states senate to represent their views.. they re interesting and safe f from the overreach of lunatics