president next week. they want him to support jim banks, who is the congressman from indiana in terms of his fight to become the gop whip. he s a strong trump ally. and they want this motion that mccarthy, is totally not in mccarthy s interest, which is ability for any house member to kind of call a confidence vote and that would jeopardize his speakership if he does one thing against the freedom caucus or other members in his caucus that pisses them off. so he is confident are that he can get this post, but it s you know, it s going to be a slog. if they do that, turn the house of representatives in the british parliament. and nancy pelosi, going through a difficult time following the attack on her husband. it appears democrats may narrowly lose the house when all votes are counted and she told
desantis. he won 20 points ahead in florida. he is seen as trump without the baggage, and so trump was trying to ujust, like, throw in spaghetti against the wall, let me attack him, attack glenn youngkin, throw a million things out there, but i think there s a lot of republicans saying, why are you attacking your potential 20 thrivals even before you re entering the race? and it s seen as kind of dragging them down, and if trump loses the, you know, primary campaign for president, then he might not even endorse whoever the republican is. so he is kind of seen as, you know, really kind of flailing around in terms of trying to keep the party from defecting from him, even though you have a lot of people blame wering trump for not having a strong enough
kind of seen as the master and has good control of his caucus. rick scott was seen as a potential challenger before tuesday night. a lot of questions how the rnc spent money in different places in the country. talk about the house. kevin mccarthy, boy, only got a few votes before he could potentially lose speakership. he needs to court some of these more right-leaning, you know, freedom caucus folks. how do you think that might play out for him? yeah. so you need a, all 218 votes when there is the formal speaker vote in january. and so he has been meeting with some of the freedom caucus people, hearing them out in terms of their demands. they have a long list of demands. they want him to vote, you know, to endorse trump early on even before trump is announced for
former president trump has sued the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the panel subpoenaed trump for documents and his testimony concern kg his actions in the weeks leading up to the insurrection, in his lawsuit trump challenges both the legitimacy of the committee, which multiple courts already upheld and claims he should be immune from testimony about the time he was president. this latest legal challenge brings into doubt whether the committee will receive any information from the former president before it dissolved end of the year. meantime, another legal defeat for right-wing conspiracy theorist and info war host alex jones. paying nearly half a billion dollars ar the lies he told about the sandy hook elementary school shooting. jean casarez has more.