hello, a very warm welcome to the programme. it is good to have you with us. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took 15 rounds of voting for mr mccarthy to win the powerful role, even though his party has a majority in the chamber. no government business can be carried out unless a speaker is in place, as our washington correspondent gary o donoghue explains. it took them four days and 15 separate ballots before they finally got there. the honourable kevin mccarthy of the state of california, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. cheering not since the american civil war more than 160 years ago has it taken this long to elect a speaker. that was easy, huh? after multiple concessions and days of arm twisting, and at times tempers almost boiling over, kevin mccarthy finally persuaded enough on the r
Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as its known that, democrats said they had to have. The president gave on that. Said hes willing to work on daca. The bottom line is, this white house is taking a very hard line in these negotiations. Shannon sounds like it from that statement. All right, ed henry live on the beat for us, thank you. The president foreshadowing a shutdown a short while ago, tweeting, quote, its not looking good. White house correspondent kevin cork joins us with where the white house goes next. Youre right. It was i
stopped caring about stuff and pretty at a low point. aiden s family campaigned for months for his release. what do your family think about you going back? they must be so pleased to have you back in newark. what do they think? i think they already knew i wanted to go back because i ve lived there. 0bviously, they re a bit worried because of the ongoing situation with the war. the idea is is to go back and i want to, like, do some focus on, like, the journalism side of stuff. because i still believe there s, like, quite a lot that people don t understand about ukraine and there s a lot of things that don t really get reported about as much as they should be. it s nearly a year since the start of the war and aiden feels there s only one outcome. the war that putin wanted didn t go the way that he intended for it to go. it s hard to say.
campaign chairman paul manafort to the notorious rikers island jail complex. that request being made by new york city prosecutors additive manafort s pending trial on state charges that include falsifying business records. he will instead be held in a federal lockup in manhattan. president trump gearing up for his big reelection launch tonight in orlando. he enters the 2020 race with a massive war chest and a sprawling network of volunteers at his disposal. former speaker of the house newt gingrich says there is reason some trump supporter s started lining up days in advance of tonight s rally. what it tells you is this is a president with a very intense relationship with his base. trump is unique, in that he was elected in the end by all the people who are mad at washington who wanted didn t mind weaknesses as long .
could go through. according to schumer, we haven t heard from the white house, a lot of maybe this is going to work. the other pillars of what the president wanted didn t sound like they got to there. by the time schumer got back to capitol hill that bigger deal had fallen apart and the continuing resolution came to an end. this, last thing, about who s taking the blame i pointed out the a.p. said senate democrats derail bill to avert shutdown. the new york times headline says, senate democrats block passage of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open. those are two headlines of what went down tonight. that don t really line up with schumer s portrayal. ssh interesting, and shannon: interesting, and mitch mcconnell made clear to the parties, probably going to make them continue to vote until they get to a resolution. ploib not right now but maybe over the weekend, they are not