Hill, leading the country in unprecedented territory. House of representative begins a Frantic Search for a new speaker. 217 around one person. There are days left to avoid a shutdown. The process is on hold. This is outnumbered, im kayleigh mcenany. Here with my cohost Harris Faulkner and emily compagno. Joining us fox business anchor, dagen mcdowell, and cohost of the verdict ben ferguson. Kevin mccarthy is now the first speaker in the history of the United States to be stripped of the gavel. His historic removal was led by fellow republican matt gaetz. Matt gaetz was furious because Kevin Mccarthy was working with democrats. Gaetz had to work with democrats to oust the house speaker, so there is that. There was a dramatic vote. Final vote total was 216210, with majority voting to vacate the chair of the house speaker. Every democrat voted for Mccarthy Removal along with eight republicans. They got support from the eight. Here is what the florida congressman had to say after the vote
World. And welcome to hannity. History on Capitol Hill Tonighel ,republican lawmakers joininawg all 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. To the first time in our nations history. And mccarthy will not seeks speakership again. Now, sources telling mt agaie au hour, some House Republicans have been in Contactblican Withd have started an effort to draft former president donal ad to bee the next speaker. N toldi hat pres that President Trump might be open to Helpingid Ort Term the republican party, at least in the short term if necessarys ,if its needed anyway. But heres former Speaker Mccarthy. Earlier tonight. Loo lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight maybe in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. Ill have the conference pick wie. Today s i think today was a political decis. Thingshe democratwa and i think that i think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. And they just started removing ine and theycommitte jus
Sean welcome to hannity, history and capitol hill eight republican lawmakers joining al 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Mccarthy will not seat the speaker sheet again. Now sources are telling me at this hour that some House Republicans have been in contac with and has started an effort to draft former president donal trump to be the next speaker an i have been told that President Trump might be open to helping the Republican Party at least i the short term if necessary. If its needed. Here is former speaker mc carthy earlier tonight, lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight me be in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. I will have the Conference Pick someone else. I think today was a political decision by the democrats. I think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. They just started removing people from committee and they just started doing other things. My fear is the institution felt today. You cant do the job
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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Representing alabama. he is doug jones. you ve been covering this. mitch mcconnell seems to be running out of options here. the sessions write-in candidacy, no help from the governor there either. what next from republicans who don t want roy moore in the senate? i think that editorial gets to the heart of it in that the narrative that s overlaid on the accusations, this race has become much more than roy moore versus his accusers. it s really become the establishment versus roy moore and that s been very damaging because people in alabama, conservatives in alabama side with roy moore and mitch mcconnell is running out of options here. he and his team are preparing a memo for white house chief of staff john kelly which range from potential expulsion from the senate but that looks unlikely. he s down eight points in the latest fox news poll and what we re seeing is that the white house really feels that all of