Right now on early start, help wanted. Divided house seeks new speaker. Must be and you nighter. R. I. N. O. S need not apply. Must handle high stress environment. Job security low. Very low. Good day to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is thursday, october 5. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington where the race for a new House Speaker is on with two lawmakers already throwing their hats in the ring. Steve scalise and jim jordan. There is of course some concern that jordan might be a bit too right wing for more moderate members tastes. He says that will not be a problem. I think were a conservative right center party and im the guy who can help unite that. I think my politics are entirely consistent where republicans are across the country. So meanwhile Steve Scalise says that republicans, quote, strength as a conference comes from our unity, ends quote. Uhhuh. This conference is extraordinarily divided. And the reality is that getting to 218 votes
impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is getting support now from more key swing district republicans. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju has the latest. reporter: behind the scenes, house republicans are planning a progressive push to potentially impeach alejandro mayorkas sometime in the next several weeks. this is according to new reporting from my colleagues melanie zanona, annie grar, and myself. we are hearing that house republicans are growing increasingly confident that they can have the votes to impeach mayorkas. this is a shift from some time ago when there were a lot of republicans who essentially did not know whether a policy dispute with the biden administration rises to that high bar of high crimes and misdemeanors, a charge that has not been levelled against a cabinet secretary since 1876, only one other time in history. that was the secretary of war,