of the state of california has received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheering] [applause] alright here s how the vote finally broke down. mccarthy with 216, hakeem jeffries got 212. and six voted present which help mccarthy clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed for the majority. usa too. in the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. hooks ultimately the past several days were about negotiations. mccarthy agreed to a range of things. from only one lawmaker needed to propose a new speaker be put in place, to voting on term limits. in a speech on the house floor he shared his vision for uniting the legislative body. my father always told me, it s not how you start, it is how you finish. the hard work begins for it may not know all of you, some of you are new. but i hope one thing is clear after this week. i never give up. no he doesn t ever giv
living on the full load of government benefits for his age group, medicare, social security and in his case, government pension, and who has discovered that golf is the least effective form of exercise to control weight and stay in shape, is now a full year and a half into the worst life ever lived by a former president of the united states. donald trump, his life is a misery from the moment he wakes up too early in the morning, through those dark hours in the middle of the night when he is struggling against the insomnia to find some peace. piece that never comes. pure misery. that is his life. prior to donald trump, the worst post presidential life ever lived was richard nixon s 20 years after being forced to resign in disgrace because of the crimes he committed an office for which he was assuredly going to be impeached if he stayed in office and convicted in the senate and removed from office. but when month and to richard nixon s painful post presidency, his successful
group, medicare, social security and in his case, government pension, and who has discovered that golf is the least effective form of exercise to control weight and stay in shape, is now a full year and a half into the worst life ever lived by a former president of the united states. donald trump, his life is a misery from the moment he wakes up too early in the morning, through those dark hours in the middle of the night when he is struggling against the insomnia to find some peace. piece that never comes. pure misery. that is his life. prior to donald trump, the worst post presidential life ever lived was richard nixon s 20 years after being forced to resign in disgrace because of the crimes he committed an office for which he was assuredly going to be impeached if he stayed in office and convicted in the senate and removed from office. but when month and to richard nixon s painful post presidency, his successful her successor gerald ford relieved him of pain by pardoning
first january 6th hearing broke the news that prior to trump s rally at the lips that day, those proud boys were actually casing the joint. just to be aware, to be advised, is probably about [inaudible] proud boys, marching eastbound and it s 400 block of independence, actually, towards the, lawn on the united states capitol. they went there 10 am, casing the capitol, at various entry points. on wednesday, we also learned about this nine-page document, strangely titled 1700s 76 returns, because it was filed in federal court by one of the proud boys and it shows their alleged december 2020 plan, including filling eight targeted buildings in the complex with their own footsoldiers and their protesters, whom they call patriots, laying a kind of siege where they could issue demands. but even if they got in, why would they think they would be in a position to hold the building and make demands? again, as the understanding has evolved, as more evidence has come in, they were hu
donald trump started his takeover of the republican party. and our long descend to where we are. we now know that donald trump knew what he was asking mike pence to do was illegal. and we are left to wonder about just how much danger donald trump knew mike pence was in when he was sending anti pence tweets to the smartphones of the trump mob attacking the capitol. by 2:24 pm, the secret service has had moved vice president pence from the senate chamber to his office across the hall. the noise from the rioters became audible, at which point we knew they had gotten into the building. then president trump tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a collective set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth. bring out pence! the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring