look at this. they want those things that jim jordan talked about. they want that stuff to happen. republicans historically have not herded the cats very well. they don t have democrats singing from the same sheet of music. republicans always have the splinter faction that is a different type of the way they operate. they stand up and are adamant about going with the group. kevin mccarthy was good at fund-raising. he s not a good committee chairman, which is all the time trying to get people together. so the question is whether that trust level, he can get that in these subsequent ballots to move he needs 14, 15 votes to move. that s not two or three. that s 15. he s already had a speech from the second vote getter, jim
0 john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. i m martha maccallum live in our nation s capitol covering this drama that we did expect and now unfolding in a fascinating way on the house floor. the new republican majority there is in a historic battle as a handful try to block kevin mccarthy from the speaker s gavel which he has wanted a long time and worked very hard to get in the mid-terms. bret baier is standing by on set with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot fo
the danger of political despair and john podesta on joe biden s battle against rising gas prices. it will take time but you should see the price of gas drop when you fill up your tank. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. you know, this week we mark 58 years since the assassination of president john f. kennedy. as his motorcade drove through dealey plaza in dallas, texas. yesterday this was the scene. a small crowd gathered. this red pickup truck drove in circles, proclaiming trump won 2020, along with a bunch of qanon slogans. now, we ve mentioned this group before. it s a small group. they re a splinter faction from the fringes of the far-right qanon movement. three weeks ago hundreds of members of this cult, for lack of a better word, assembled at
yesterday on the anniversary of that assassination, a small crowd gathered. this red pick up truck drove in circles, proclaiming trump won 2020, along with a bunch of qanon slogans. we ve mentioned this group before, it s a small group, they re splinter faction from the fringes of the far-right qanon movement. in fact, three weeks ago hundreds of members of this cult, for lack of a better word, assembled at daily plaza awaiting the return of john f. kennedy and his son, jfk junior, who of course died in a plane crash, tragically, in 1999. they believe that the kind of these are not actually dead, and will receive veal themselves in order to help reinstate donald trump as president. now, it s supposed to happen at 12:29 pm on november 2nd. obviously, that did not happen. but a hard-core group remains in daily plaza, still waiting for something to happen. the leader of this called promised, quote, something big
out of the hotel. it s not clear how many escaped, but this hotel chain says there were up to 170 guests and staffers at that hotel when the siege began. a u.n. official says this whole thing started when several men stormed into this hotel when their ak-47s and the attackers arrived. one witness says they were in a car with diplomatic plates. robin kriel is live for us in kenya covering what s happening across the continent there in mali. tl me where the situation stands right now. do we know, yet, any sort of official claim of responsibility? reporter: yes, we re still trying to ascertain the claims of responsibility, brooke, but it does look to be at least according to social media and some sites that cnn is work ing to verify that it was an afall yit or splinter faction of al qaeda and islamic maghreb.