with us, three republicans and one democrat, tom, ridge mark schweikert, bell the democrat, tom corbin, live written a letter to the candidates, for governor, josh shapiro and doug mastriano, saying this. as the commonwealth s four living former governors, we share much in common as regards our beloved pennsylvania. the go on to say more about, that and then they say we are asking you, as the leaders of the pennsylvania republican and democratic parties, to pledge to honor the process, respect the law, who provided peoples will, and support a peaceful transfer of power. in doing so you will demonstrate to all pennsylvania candidates, who will be looking to for leadership, the love of commonwealth and country, must come above all. they say they re asking them to, it s astonishing that there s a letter saying this, but they re asking these two candidates to accept the results, of the november 8th election. to accept the results, and also ensure a peaceful transition of powe
insurrectionists across the capitol while being called the most violent, racist names. i am jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this sunday, after four days and 15 rounds of voting, kevin mccarthy is finally speaker of the house. but, what comes next for the new speaker depends on what he had to give away to win the gavel. it was chaos and drama friday when mccarthy thought he had the vote in the bag on the 14th round, only to be thwarted by congressman matt gaetz, a never kevin who voted present instead of four mccarthy, which is strange, because gaetz had already crowed that mccarthy had already agreed to every concession that gaetz had asked for. i am excited and encouraged, i am grateful that speaker doesn t give mccarthy receptive to each and every change we have demanded. and shawn, without the stage right now where i am running out of stuff to ask for. stuff like allowing one member to call for the removal of the speaker and giving seats on the rules comm
come back monday, try again. but at the very last second, there seemed to be a deal reached between gates and mccarthy. and a 15th round again. finally, kevin mccarthy was elected to be the next speaker of the house. let me close with this. i 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. joining me now from capital of the hills nbc news capitol correspondent julie circuits. let s talk a little bit about the deal that was made to get mccarthy over the finish line, and what you re hearing about in next epsilon with congress. a lot of concessions were made. some of the moderates are really unhappy about that. because mccarthy was willing to go pretty far in order to secure the speakership gavel. one that he has been trying to get since 2015. so some of the concessions he made to some of those hard-line conservatives, including matt gates, lauren boebert, and others, have to do with the budget, have to do with
of that. [inaudible] [inaudible] well here is a bit more from nbc s aly tally. it s official. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california haven t received a majority of the votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] that was, easy yes? this chamber is not fully open for all americans to visit. it is the longest speaker vote in 100 years. the dramatic and twisting political melodrama not seen in the modern era. and, now the hard work begins. we will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done. mccarthy allies expected in the clinch the speakership on the 14th ballot, thinking that they have the votes. a speaker has not been elected. shock reverberating throughout the chamber. as congressman matt gates held firm is the man standing in between mccarthy speakership. mccarthy himself begging for gates vote on the floor. congressman mike rogers, it mccarthy alla, being held back fro
we ll have a background in dance, so i m sure they re going to be really intrigued. good morning. we have got some rain this morning across wales and southern england which will be slow to clear, another band across northern ireland and england emergency call handlers being cheered as they walk out of the london ambulance service call centre. pushes just one of the picket lines that thousands of ambulance workers north into scotland and brightening up north into scotland and brightening up behind it. but it is be windy. something needs to change. the nhs is on its knees. we re all at breaking point. like i said, everyone s trying their best, but everyone s tired. hospitals are struggling with beds and then we get stuck waiting with patients for like four to five hours at times, and we just can t get out to see other patients that need us. nhs leaders say the system has coped as well as they could have hoped, but there s worry about the knock on effect on the health service ov