World. And welcome to hannity. History on Capitol Hill Tonighel ,republican lawmakers joininawg all 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. To the first time in our nations history. And mccarthy will not seeks speakership again. Now, sources telling mt agaie au hour, some House Republicans have been in Contactblican Withd have started an effort to draft former president donal ad to bee the next speaker. N toldi hat pres that President Trump might be open to Helpingid Ort Term the republican party, at least in the short term if necessarys ,if its needed anyway. But heres former Speaker Mccarthy. Earlier tonight. Loo lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight maybe in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. Ill have the conference pick wie. Today s i think today was a political decis. Thingshe democratwa and i think that i think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. And they just started removing ine and theycommitte jus
Steele s perspective my first thought has to be for your country. how else can i sound this alarm? now republicans in congress are trying to persuade the justice department to bring charges against him for having done that. joining us now is one of the reporters who broke this latest news and gave us this narrative detail about christopher steele, tom hamburger, national reporter for the washington post, hamburg hamburger, thank you for being with us. thanks so much. good to be with you. this report comes in the midst of a concerted attack on christopher steele himself fr republicans in congress, they re alleging he was basically peddling false information to try to take down donald trump for political purposes. one of the things that you disclose in this new reporting here is that there were at least a couple of meetings between christopher steele and the washington post during the time that this reporting describes. given that, given that you at the post met with him, tha