Actually lead to increased mortality. And the jury is still out how these vaccines are going to work against these variants. Reporter this is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its thursday, february 4 tth, 6 00 here in new york. A moment of revelation for the Republican Party overnight. Days ago, it was mitt romney who said, our big tent is not large enough to accommodate conservatives and kooks. Days ago, it was Mitch Mcconnell who said, loony lies and Conspiracy Theories are a cancer for the Republican Party. But last night, it was Kevin Mccarthy, the House Republican leader who said, essentially, hold my beer. No action against Marjorie Taylor greene, the qanonsupporting House Republican who endorsed the execution of democratic leaders, harassed School Shooting victims, called Mass Shootings a hoax, reportedly trafficked in antisemitic propaganda about jewish space lasers. No action.
plus we will speak with the new secretary of transportation pete buttigieg live in this show in a bit. but, first, breaking tonight, just moments ago it has been more than 100 years since we have seen this moment on capitol hill. more than nine ballots for speaker of the house and just now after a tenth vote has just wrapped up. we still don t have a house speaker. the growing question now is who will blink first? we re in the third day day of the republican battle over this job. former minority leader kevin mccarthy still does not have enough support to get to the magic number and the top spot. about 20 opponents are refusing to buckle so far as negotiations continue behind the scenes vote after vote. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest tonight live from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, kevin mccarthy expected to move the meter today. it never happened, despite concessions. the house is no closer to electing a speaker than when it started
does best is leaking and lying and trying to clean it all up. the bureau told newsweek they had under covers inside mar-a-lago. the fbi had a mole at mar-a-lago. newsweek says, quote: the raid on mar-a-lago was based largely on information from an fbi confidential human source one who was able to identify what classified documents former president trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents. so the fbi had a mole and the trump campaign had moles in the trump administration and now they have a mole in mar-a-lago. the guy who is running the fbi field office in d.c. is the same guy who had moles in the gretchen whitmer fake kidnapping are not r. plot. and you wonder why the fbi can t stop a single mass shooting. can t protect supreme court justices. can t stop chinese supplies from sleeping with eric swalwell. can t sniff out chinese spies driving dianne feinstein around can t stop chinese from stealing our secrets and hacking our pipeline. can t stop eps
Hostage situation unfolding at this hour inside a bank. Several reportedly trapped inside. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on a friday night. We begin with the urgent headline from puerto rico at this hour. A dam at imminent risk of failure, a lifethreatening situation. A Mass Evacuation under way. Some 70,000 people across the island. Catastrophic flooding and mudslides already. The governor saying its time to get people out. We begin with abcs rob marciano on the scene to get Tens Of Thousands to higher ground. Rob. Reporter a disastrous development happening in puerto rico. A large dam is beginning to fail. Two towns and Tens Of Thousands of people in danger downstream. A Flash Flood Emergency in effect right now. Officials urging people to get to high ground. This is a lifethreatening situation happening now. Tonight the new emergency in this unfolding disaster. The battering of Hurricane Maria and her 40 inches of rain causing this major dams failure. Flash flooding fo
give you an example. i will went to wisconsin recently. this was last year i think. a lot of good paying jobs come in. working with the operating engineers there to make clear to high school students that whether they want a college degree or not they can get good paying construction jobs because of the work that we re making possible. bret: i understand and. hold on we saved taxpayers # thousand dollars by using the faa jet instead of buying airline tickets. nevada, oklahoma, minnesota, ohio, new hampshire, using private flight to travel to montreal. private fly government aircraft. taxpayers are paying for it? taxpayers are usually saving money when we do that i will give you an example. bret: that is one of the controversies that led to other secretaries leaving. secretary price of hhs sat at this very desk and defended a government trips and he left. secretary price saved taxpayers by doing it i don t think he did. bret: he originally you brought your husband chaz