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another embarrassing vote on the horizon, the speaker may take some solace in the fact that you can count on the support of at least one man, donald trump. here he was yesterday, expressing his gratitude for the disgraced ex president. i do want to especially thank president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me for the beginning, somebody wrote the before he was there and he was all in. he would call me and he would call others. and he really was i, was just talking to him tonight, helping get those final votes. so during the four-day speakership spectacle that we just witnessed, trump lobbied hard for the man he once referred to as quote, my kevin. trump worked the phones, attempting to get members of his maga base behind mccarthy. in fact here you can see marjorie taylor greene during one of those votes trying to pass the phone to congressman matt rosendale. the screen shows the initials d t in green later confirmed trump was in ....
all right. andy scholes, thank you very much. great to see you. thanks for joining us. i m kasie e hunt. don t go a anywhere. cnn this s morning s starts r now. good morning, everyone. we re glad you re starting your day with us. here are five things to know. president biden and xi jinping easing tensions a bit after their high-stakes face to face summit. the leaders both greeting to reopening some military communications. and president biden signaling new hope for what could be an eminent hostage deal at a news conference last night. he s been deeply involved in the negotiations and is mildly hopeful. also a pro palestinian protest turns violent in washington, d.c. we re told six capitol police officers were injured and several arrests were made. congress has averted a government shutdown. the senate passing a short-term fund ing bill last night. president biden expected to sign it before friday s headline. and thousands of workers set to walk off the job ....
Democratic prince grassed of alexandrite urquiza cortez. or the republican george central looking rather lowly sitting there all alone. then making friends with fellow republican members lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene, and nearly forgetting to vote for kevin mccarthy when the clerk called his name. almost like he was going off for something. one of the most iconic moments c-span caught on camera this week was on friday, when a fight almost broke out between matt gates and his fellow republicans might rogers and richard hudson. these images will live on infamy forever and we have not other than c-span 2 thank for that. my son in a panel is back with me. so eugene, what do you make of this? what did you think of c-span and it s free roaming camera? should we make this the norm? what stood out to you about it? yeah, c-span i think as a nerd, as reporter absolutely. i would love for that to be the case. because i think, it is ....
Dreamers, then president trump should be able to end birthright citizenship with executive order as well. although there are people like paul ryan who say no, you can t. brian: and the president took him to task. steve: he did. he blew him up. brian: look at the other channels which i have all these channels and i say i m only watching one. i should flip them around. steve: animal planet? brian: c-span 2 as well i love the programming and diversity. also a civil war on the republicans. it s not a civil war. it s the president saying honestly i have a problem with the speaker calling me out on a radio show when he didn t even talk to me first. so, it s not a civil war. it s honest dialogue back and forth. steve: the washington post this morning has a great item about how it s not just republicans who have gone along with the president in the past regarding immigration. now you ve got joe donnelly who is in the fight of his life in indiana. he said regarding birth ....
Being a sham. this is a sham what s going on in there right now. the remaining senators forged on with committee business, speechifying about the confirmation process. as the 1:30 vote deadline approached, something strange started to happen, flake got up from his seat and left the committee room, bringing two democrats with him, chris coons and amy klobuchar. and flake would proceed to stay in that chamber out of view of cameras for over an hour. dianne feinstein got up to join him and the business of the community ground to a halt. senators and staffers kept going in and out of the side room where flake was holed up where colleagues on either side of the aisle whispered together as 1:30, the scheduled time for the vote came and went. c-span 2 picked up feinstein on a hot mic talking to chairman chuck grassley about flake, something about him being able to force it. no one watched had any idea what that might mean until flake reemerged into the committee room, this time coming in ....