institution. he s not alone. kevin mccarthy is now agreeing to major concessions overnight as he tries to appease the group of gop hard liners who are standing between kevin mccarthy and the speakers gavel. we have an update this morning on damar hamlin still in critical condition but showing signs of improvement. we ll talk to his close friend, indianapolis colts safety rookie robby tomlin who just visited him. first to the speaker drama on capitol hill set to continue for day three as republican leader kevin mccarthy is seeking the job but apparently no closer to it after two days, six votes in which he has failed to secure the 218 votes needed to become sp speaker. the stalemate has rendered the house of representatives useless. no business can be conducted until a speaker is elected. mccarthy insists he is making progress, giving concessions to the 20 hard liners. the question is will it be enough. right now mccarthy does not appear anywhere ready to give up the fi
Johnson will meet with Columbia University jewish students tomorrow. Hell also take questions from reporters at Columbia University where protests have forced the school to shift to virtual classes. This comes as police on or near College Campuses in several cities are preparing for another night of possible confrontation with antiisrael demonstrators, Protester Encampments are growing in many places across the country. And many people there are resisting Police Orders to leave New York University students have been participating in the demonstrations in recent days. Correspondent Steve Harrigan is on the scene there tonight. Good evening, steve. Steve good evening, bret. They have been going at it already for about five hours here at its peak 1500 people. And they dont seem to be going anywhere soon. [chanting free, free palestine. From coast to coast. [chanting we will not, weve not rest] ivy leagues, large universities and colleges and even high schools propalestinian protests are s
on the house side. so the president will have the cabinet meeting today, no speaker, that throws off the line of succession, right? that s right. so much of what we have been talking about is the political drama. but i think we shouldn t forget just the real ramifications for just the functioning of the u.s. government. i know we ve talked about the fact when there s not a house speaker you can t swear in members, some committee folks will not get paid and then there is the presidential line of succession. the first person in line as everybody knows is the vice president and then the second person is the house speaker, but because there is no house speaker right now, the second person in line to the presidency is senator patty murray, who is the senate president protelm, this is all stunning when you think about the fact we have a president 80 years old, the oldest person to serve as president. let s hope we don t get to that. our kids are going to be reading about this in their
well, peter, i think many americans are confused by what exactly a secretary of state s role is in a situation like benghazi. well, i think there s probably no question about that. but i think that what we ve now discovered as the governor points out and i wrote about it last week in a column called the benghazi backfire is that the republicans have turned a look into how do you make our embassies more secure and how do you protect people into a hit job on hillary rodham clinton. now, that, to me, is pretty stupid. i mean, that s not smart for the republicans to do. and i think on the 22nd when she appears before that committee, they are going to have something to answer for. and i ll tell you, if i were those committee folks, i d say let s have her in and out of her in an hour because i don t think we want to be taking the incoming from hillary clinton on this. i don t think that s going to happen, peter.