thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
incredible work holding down this hour before this launch and for that i am incredibly forever grateful. thank you. and on a final note, please don t forget to set your dvr s for alex wagner tonight. that is the time for the last word with, my friend lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence hey alex this is very exciting. it s wagner week. that s the way it s gonna be remembered in television history. you know, i saw the little gremlins attack at the beginning of the show. here s the thing to know. on my first show, first one of these which i did which is 12 million episodes ago. the very first one. in the first segment, the teleprompter went down. now you have to be bryant williams to handle a teleprompter going down. you have to be a professional which i wasn t and still am not. so there s this gremlin thing. you re still on the air 12 million episodes later that s the important part of this. that is the lesson. i believe that is the blessing from the gremlins saying
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho
massacre. i saw more tears this week than i ever want to see ever again. my first guest tonight is the uvalde justice who was inside the crime scene and identified the victims. our first year of the night. how are you holding up? it s been tough, ups and downs from the time it happened to that evening, yesterday morning but it then tough. have been involved in the work of trying to get the paperwork to the medical examiner s office coordinating with funeral homes to ensure the bodies are released back to the funeral homes and brought back to the families here in uvalde, it s a full-time job and kept me busy so it s kept my mind off the reality of what happened to our town. for those who don t know, what is your job entailed? will have a medical examiner, we are the corner so in most cases we handle deaths that are called unattended that s, from people not admitted into the hospital, people not admitting into a nursing home or hospice so anybody who dies outside of tho