Speaker. The speaker without objection, the appointments are approved. And the house will be in recess subject subject to the call of the chair. Pursuant to clause 12a of rule 1, well be back soon. The election of mike johnson is historic tst louisianan to be elected. Hes aduate of l. S. U. And l. S. U. Lawchl. These are his current positions which he wl ve up. Becoming speaker. Republican Conference Vice ai Armed Services and Judiciary Committee, republica Study Committee chair, ande was first elected in 2016. Want to get your views on hearing about the election of mike johnson. 2027488021 for republicans. All others 7488922. You can see the text number there at the bottom as well. 7488903. If you do send a text, include your first name and city. We are going to start with a call from Mike Johnsons own district in louisiana, robert a republican there. What can you tell us about your congressman . Caller ive known mike for many, many years. Who is he . Hes our congressman northwest lou
Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Im standing on a roof torp looking out over tel aviv. It is just after 11 00 p. M. Here and were covering three major stories right now. The war here. The end to the Chaotic Speakership Saga Back in washington, d. C. And former President Donald Trump in a stunning appearance on the stand today in his new york Civil Fraud Trial. Well start with Breaking News from israel. It is been 18 days since the attacks by hamas caught this country and most of the world by surprise. Just over an hour ago, from this rooftop, we heard explosions presumably from israels iron dome Defense System intercepting several rocks fired on tel aviv from gaza and minutes ago they confirmed that four people were injured with something possibly shrapnel hitting this town. A reminder that hamas continues to try to kill as many israeli civilians as they can with their rockets. Theyre just not able to do so because of the iron dome Defense Syste
and in the air. a humanitarian crisis getting worse by the hour. also following breaking news out of florida. chaos after a shooting at a halloween event. at least two people are now dead, one of them a teenager. we are getting some troubling information about warning signs missed involving the main mass shooter. we are also following major political news this hour. the fallout from the biggest drop out so far from the 2024 presidential race, former vice president mike pence finding out that refusing to overturn an election is an unforgivable sin in today s republican party. plus, as house speaker mike johnson gets ready to get to work this week, we are taking a special look at some of the extreme views he holds on the 2020 election, abortion, lgbtq rights, and more. views even those who voted for him may not have fully realized. all that plus fans around the world in mourning today after the death of friends star matthew perry. oh, come on. don t be mad. we both said somet
Hinton will join us from alabama along with his attorney Bryan Stevenson of the equal Justice Initiative. Then we go to louisiana to speak with a prosecutor who is apologizing for making a mistake that put another innocent man on death row for 30 years. [indiscernible] that i didnt follow up, that i should have done more, that i had an obligation to do more. Amy while when ford was released from prison in 2014 the state of louisiana is refusing to offer compensation for wrongfully jailing him for 30 years. He got the news and hospice where he is dying of cancer. We will speak with the prosecutor marty stroud. And we will look at the American Pharmacist associations new policy urging members not to supply drugs used in lethal injections. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Kenya has launched strikes inside somalia following last weeks massacre by the militant group alshabab. 148 people, mostly students, we
Syrian army, not shia militias tied to the asad government. Did nbc knowingly cover up the truth . Well speak to Asad Abu Khalil who openly questioned nbcls nbcs claim back in 2012. Then to the house the herman built. What you see before you is a model built to scale of Herman Wallace is cell. He spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. Amy we will speak to artist Jackie Summell about hermans house, her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, Herman Wallace. And we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. He is now dying of cancer in hospice care. While exonerated, he has not been compensated. But first, in an act of mass civil disobedience, tens of thousands of new york parents rebelled this week against years of standardized testing from the politicians in albany. We will speak to a parent and school superintendent. All that and mo