footage, which so far tucker carlson has used to sway the capitol attack of something it was not. his remarks come on a day in which several republican senators criticized his decision and hard on the heels of last night s document dump in dominion voting systems cased against fox. documents revealing that carlson s attempt for the former president for his viewers and for the facts. more on that, shortly. first, some of what the speaker just said. one thing that i always want to make sure is that this capitol, it is protected and secured. i want to make sure that the officers here have everything that they need to provide that. my whole role for a january 6th is just being transparent. people can make their own decision with that. that is not all he said on the subject. our manu raju found out when he press the speaker, he joins us now. so mccarthy held a press conference today following a congressional budget office report on the debt. what did he say about the january s
happening now, racing the clock, fighting the climate. bitter cold and utter devastation slow the search for quake survivors as the death toll in turkey and syria climbs. is he or isn t he? kevin mccarthy weighs on whether george santos is being investigated by the house committee while some constituents demand his removal. and making his case. president biden gets ready to report on the state of the union. and what also could be a preview of his 2024 re-election campaign. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we re up here at the u.s. capitol just hours away from the president s state of the union message to the american people. with me tonight are cnn correspondents and analysts, we will all break down what to expect. but we begin right now with a devastation and the growing loss of life in turkey and syria. the death toll which has been climbing for days, now approaching 8,000 men a
protest? a riot? the makings of some scattered illegal violence? or do you see something worse. one of the most severe felonies against the u.s. which is now on trial tonight. do you see sedition? that is what federal prosecutors see and what some juries saw and have now convicted, and it s our special report for you right now. we are living through a test of accountability, the doj s effort to convict in these separate sedition trials two years out from an attack that might fade out of view for some people. today the doj demanding juries continue to face what it felt like, what happened, the facts of that day. seemed like they just took mike pence out really quickly. yes, they did. a moment i never saw in my life, these individuals just rushed through security. they are inside statuary hall. obviously this is a huge victory for these protesters. they have disrupted the system in an enormous way. i completely condemn the violence in the capital. i ve spoken to the
Direction i need him to run. Ill never forget that grip. He says, senator, were in danger, you have to come with me. And because of leader schumers position, he needed to go to different locations than Everybody Else did. We are walking briskly through a hall. And there are two gentlemen right by the stairwell. One baldheaded gentleman. Another one, long, black hair with a punisher shirt. We immediately aboutface. I grab the leader. We run out the door at full speed. I was within 20 feet of these insurrectionists. I heard second hand that someone pointed at me and said, theres the big jew, lets get him. We had a plan set. I ran to the elevator, i hit the button. We get up there, we pop out the door, boom, theres our vehicle, cars running. Heres our avenue out of here, we have made it. We start making our way to the secure location. I ask my colleagues to rejection this objection, to respect the will of the voters in the state of arizona the debate continues. Then i start noticing some
of his teeth. and coming back to vote again because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. and it s all right now seemingly about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors. so the fact the motion to adjourn even passed, well, that s a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he wouldn t commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. wrap it up tomorrow? no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we ve got members talking. i think we ve got a little movement so we ll see. we ll have more from manu raju in just a moment. kevin mccarthy has suffered what many are calling five humiliating defeats. well, that was just today, and you can add that to what s happened in the past over the past several days. his own party has told him, nope. that comes of course from con