welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i ve never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill. i am hearing as you are hearing from members of congress, you re hearing from them off the record i guess and hearing from them on camera, who are saying yeah, they think there actually might be a way forward. some are saying that too, on the record chip roy being one of them. others are suggesting there is not. there is still very little room for error for kevin mccarthy but mccarthy just le
if her service in the role of the person in charge of capitol police intelligence was so dara elect. they were doing an internal i.g. investigation as well and you had the senate do their report. i believe the senate came forward and said it s clear intelligence failed operations. so they made the determination early on and i d written a letter to congress shortly after january 6th outlining initial concerns. an eight-page letter and didn t receive one single response so i tried to do what i can to go public with a lot of my concerns. yeah, your minute by minute detail of what happened of that day, you mentioned a lot of donald trump tweets. you don t go into the months and months and months of lies he told about the election that got all those crowds there.
them more power, give them more committee assignments. give them more say in forcing a vote to oust a sitting speaker. among the issues, there are i m told progress in some issues according to some of the members. does that mean they can get there? he has a long way to go. he can only lose four votes to get there, four republican votes and lost 20 so far that are several republicans who i talked to coming off the floor who are still no votes including congress man bob good, what a path mccarthy has to get to 218 votes. they are optimistic they can somehow get there but been trying for weeks and weeks and been trying for the last couple days. can they get there tonight? big question as we head into a critical few hours. man throu raju, thanks so mu.
[ overlapping speakers ] that oversees the capitol police. scenes with members i could see from their perspective they would view that interaction differently. chairwoman maxine waters says before january 6th are you ready, they re going to be breaking in. they re going to be climbing over the dome. i m para phrasing and after the attack she says i told you and another one with congress chairwoman zoe where basically you say, you know, that you ve talked about the national guard option and i could see her thinking okay, then that s taken care of. can you see from their perspective why they might think you had opportunities and you either you didn t listen to waters, maxine waters, you know, we talked about the failure of the imagination after 9/11 or provided some reassurance to zoe that wasn t appropriate. let s go back to maxine waters discussion.
lives that died by suicide afterwards. what is your message to them? do you apologize for anyway you fell short? so i think i d say i have two mes messages. i know my officers well. regularly and i truly do care about them and they know how much is this. they did the best they possibly could if it wasn t for the law enforcement, the agencies that came to assist and i called in 17 law enforcement officers that came in and assisted that day. if it wasn t for the law enforcement and quick response from the metropolitan police department, i think the rioters would have breached the capitol quicker and you d probably be dealing with dead members of congress. in the halls of congress. we need to know with the circumstances to get whatever resources we could. they need to change the security structure that o.