Discovery about pluto. Our top story at this hour, a Stunning Development in the gop ballot for house speaker. The front runner, Kevin Mccarthy dropped out of the race to replace john boehner, and he announced his decision during a meeting with House Republicans gathered to select a candidate for speak, and mccarthy said that his bid threatens to divide the gop. I dont want making the speaker a tough one, i dont want to go to the floor and win with 220 votes. I think that the best thing for our party right now is if you have 247. If you want to be strong, we have to be 100 united. Lets bring in our aljazeera reporter, michael shure, and can you describe for me please the level of dysfunction today represents for the gop caucus and beyond . Well, tony, there are a few ways of coming at that question, and one of them, theres a segment of the Republican Party, the freedom caucus, they call themselves, 304 members, very conservative, who say this is about as functional as the party gets. A
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