Good morning to our viewer in the United States and Around The World. Im kasie hunt. It is wednesday, october 25th. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington where we begin another day without a speaker of the house. About seven hours from now the house is scheduled to vote again to try to fix that. So who might the next speaker of the house be . Well, you would be forgiven to not recognizing this man, that is 51yearold mike johnson of louisiana whose relative complete lack of public profile might be exactly why he could become the last man standing. He was picked late last night after a tumultuous day on capitol hill. Republicans spent most of the day voting to pick tom emmer as their nominee. And he is not exactly a house house name either, but he served in house leadership before. And that seems to be exactly the problem. Emmer was selected as next pick for speaker yesterday around lunchtime, but he was out before dinner. And that was mostly because donald trump knew too much about him. After e
Now. Good morning, glad you are with us. Were following three big stories breaking overnight. There is a new designee to be house speaker. Overnight republicans nominated louisiana congressman mike johnson. This morning many more are sounding much more optimistic than they have in the past three weeks ahead of the expected vote at noon. And israel says no to a ceasefire. Were learning new information about how the u. S. Is urging caution looking at Lessons Learned from iraq. And also mark meadows reportedly strike as deal with federal prosecutors. Abc news reporting that he is offering up testimony about the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in exchange for immunity. We start with a new name could soon hang over the house speakers office. Kevin mccarthys name just taken down last night according to our hill team. And were now talking about louisiana congressman mike johnson who the House Republicans have chosen as their fourth speaker desk tdesignee. Democracy is