i m ann marie walker. i m alex march quart in for boris sanchez. the house of representatives finally elects a speaker. how kevin mccarthy gets the votes. remarkable progress for damar hamlin and the moment he face timed his teammates from his hospital bed. and new details on the horrific murder of four idaho college students. what we re learning from a recently released affidavit and the father of one of the victims tells cnn why he believes the group was targeted. plus, the fda grants approval for a new alzheimer s drug. the reported benefits and the concern coming up on cnn this morning. it is saturday, january 7th. thank you so much for waking up with us. thank you so much for having me back. alex, it s great to be with you. we re matching. we re in lock step together. good to be with you, alex. happy new year. and to you. thank you so much. who needs reality tv when you have cspan. cnn after days of deadlock, 15 ballots and a lot of deal making, republi
the gentleman from the state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ] kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel after 15 rounds of voting. it was the longest speaker contest in 164 years. despite sometimes contentions and negotiations with the narrow faction of his conference, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. i make this promise i ll never give up for you, the american people. and i will never give up on keeping our commitment to america. our nation is worth fighting for. our rights are worth fighting for. our dreams are worth fighting for. cnn s eva mckend is live on capitol hill. eva, what finally pushed mccarthy over the edge for these republican holdouts? reporter: well, he was able to convince those never-kevin lawmakers ultimately vote present and that is how he secured this victory on the 15th try, fred, but also by making some key concessions. so, for instance, those
concessions he made to them in order to get their votes? reporter: jake, that is really starting to come into focus. the number of concessions and promises that kevin mccarthy has made over the course of the negotiations has been quite outstanding, and i should caution that this stuff has not been put on paper. there has not been anything put out that we have seen. this is based on the reporting from me and my fantastic hill team. but i just want to walk you through just to give the viewers a sense of what has been agreed to and what a kevin mccarthy speakership could look like. the big one is he agreed for any single member to be able to call for a vote on ousting the sitting speaker. that s something he used to say he would never budge on. now any member could call for that vote. he s agreed that his leadership pack is not going to play in primaries to try to beat conservatives, at least in safe districts. that s something conservatives have complained about in the past.
Ken fre conference, kate . Were waiting for the start of this slated 1 00 press conference with Preet Bharara. Tough terms coming out of his office from the settlement reached. 1. 8 billion fine related to Insider Trading as well as the surrender of their license. Their ability essentially to manage outside money. They will become a Family Office shortly after the settlement is approved by judges. They have pled guilty to five counts against them, one of wire fraud, four of securities fraud and well hear more detail im sure on what they admitted to in terms of Insider Trading and perhaps not best supervising their employees. In a letter to the judges today two judges who need to approve this settlement in order for it to be set in stone, bharara said considering all things the depth and breadth of the wrongdoing here he thought these penalties were steep but fair. Interesting but lotough languag out of his office. He has amassed a track record of Insider Trading convictions and cases.
Delays, delays blamed for 40 patient deaths at va facilities. The departments embattled secretary eric shen sier shen s. What is the latest . Good morning, chris. So far president obama standing by Eric Shinseki, himself a veteran of vietnam, saying he has confidence in him. But make no mistake shinseki is embattled. Now hes has ordered in his own department for the first time, a face to face audit of all the clinics looking into this question, were there secret wait lists where veterans made to wait for appointments that nobody recorded the delays s a veterans may have died over all of this. The house has subpoenaed shinseki to come before the Veterans Affairs committee. They want to see emails, they want to see all communications about this issue. Much of it first reported by our own drew griffin. The senate, they have not subpoenaed him but he will appear before the Senate Next Week to testify. If you wondered about the scope of this, there are 23 million veterans in this country. T