hadn t seen. you re a student of the law. you know that lawyers are not supposed to disclose their conversation with their clients. even after they re dead. that s what stephen jones the attorney did. i think it was a questionable decision on his part. it was a tremendous boom to me as a journalist to get behind the scenes in many the investigation. plus, i got all the material that federal government turned over to the defense as part of their investigation. so i have the federal government as well. how nice to see you both. how nice to see you, jeffrey toobin. congratulations. thank you. book after book. not sure how you do it. well it s a phenomenal write. thank you. be sure to pick up his book. we ll speak to one of the authors of the clarence thomas report. that will be later this hour. right now, our coverage continues as cnn this morning continues right now. russia is accusing the united states of being behind that drone attack on the kremlin.
times three. good news he s wearing the suit. who knows what could be on that after all the baby holding he s been doing. jesse, being a new dad is tough. jesse is going over the show with the producers. just the best way to disseminate important information in an efficient way, right? jesse s twins are excited to have a little sister. looks like jesse jr. is already chipping in. i think that s enough, jess. nope. that s good. she has a lot of goldfish. very good sharing. good sharing, jess. that was really nice. one more and we re done. oops. you missed. one more. give her one more. nice. good job. high-five. wow. giving up goldfish is a big deal. jesse, what s it like now you have little gigi in your life? it s great. i m not that tired. that s gigi. a little controversial. i ve been spelling the girl s name wrong. okay. is it g-i-g-i or capital g lowercase i capital g lowercase i? you have to tell us. i don t know. i don t know if she knows either. a ba
that began way back on tuesday. along the way, we were treated to an important at times chaotic civics lesson including near fisticuffs live and on camera. friday the fourth day of voefting we saw 15 holdouts switch their allegiance during the 12th and 13th rounds of balloting, and then after an adjournment mccarthy thought he had the needed votes and at 11:00 came to a 14th vote yet one vote shy of a majority. for the first time all week he couldn t hide being visibly angry. lauren boebert and matt gaetz voted present while four other anti-mccarthy holdouts remained steadfast. it was dramatic and gripping to watch. a fistfight nearly broke out as mike rogers the chair of the house armed services committee, was physically restrained from matt gaetz who supporters rushed to his side. on enies were heard. mccarthy thought he d whipped the votes necessary. when it seemed they were going to be adjourning for the weekend there was more arm twisting. suddenly mccarthy was smiling a
speaker after four days and 15 rounds of voting. this was the moment that the longest speaker contest in 164 years came to a close. [ cheers ] but before the house selected its new speaker, the cameras captured a stunning political soap opera playing out on the house floor just before midnight. mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes locked up in round 14, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the end of the ballot process to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. a stunned mccarthy walked up the house floor to confront gaetz. as he walked away looking dejected, enter arms services committee chairman mike rogers who lunged at gaetz and had to be restrained by fellow republican congressman hudson. many thought this was game over and the vote to adjourn until monday box office to pass be but then a breakthrough with gaetz was reached. mccarthy changed his vote on adjourning, and dozens followed. then the 15th time was the ch
of staff at the department of homeland security and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. welcome to the programme. it s starting to feel a bit like groundhog day on capitol hill. that s because the house is trying again for a third day to elect a speaker of the house. we ve now had eight votes. and in all eight, the republican kevin mccarthy has failed to receive enough votes. he hasn t even been able to swing the needle in his favour at all. this is the scene live in the house now where a ninth vote is under way. it already appears that he has lost to this vote as well. at least seven republicans have voted for other options. in the last vote, 20 republicans voted for an alternative candidates to mr mccarthy mainly for byron donalds, and there was also a shock vote for donald trump. remember, the speaker of the house doesn t need to be a member of congress. that vote for the former president came from matt gaetz, one of the ring leaders of those refusing t