A warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im bianca nobilo. And im max foster. Just ahead on cnn newsroom the office of Speaker Of The House is hearby declared vacant. A day weve never seen. I will not run for speaker again. Mr. Trump, will you be testifying . Yes, i will. Gag order from judge engoron after trump attacked the judges clerk. A Passenger Bus plunges from a bridge. Two of the victims were children. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. It is wednesday, october 4, 9 00 a. M. In london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where the gears of government have essentially ground to a halt after the unprecedented ousting of u. S. Republican House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. Tuesdays extraordinary vote pushed by hardline conservatives ma ma makes mccarthy the first voted out in u. S. History. The Republican Party has now 34 plunged deeper into extraordinary. It is extraordinary. I was watching it last night and it
witch hunts and lynchings. there was a lot of effort to distract. the case is a fairy tale. you talking a ining about th hunt. i hear it s a joke. i m not going to quit a job the people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob. he said he was a victim of a lynching. fwl it it s a word that many democrats have used. the fact that he might say he being rod blagojevich to say things that offend people doesn t make them impeachable. i believe it was inappropriate. i do not believe it was impeachable. the house of representatives disagreed. members of both parties impeaching and convicting him in senate trial so he was removed from office. the governor blagojevich is hearby impeached. i now pronounce the judgment of conviction against rod blagojevich. thereby removing him from the
good to have you. you came out swinging tonight. take a couple swings at, for instance, speaker gingrich, calling him grandiose, saying he had big ideas but he didn t carry through. i guess the strategy is to go after him from your perspective and not governor romney and not so much president obama? i sort of go after everybody, if you want to know the truth. they have been beating us up pretty bad hearby in south carolina, and we decided if they are going to try to beat us up on television then we are going to take our opportunity on television to lay out the case for us versus the case for them. what i said with respect to his ability to execute that plan as speaker is something that i think if you go and talk to a lot of folks who served as i did with him during that time, that they would back me up. we are looking for a leader who not just can have good ideas and big ideas, and it s great, and newt has been a big idea guy. i ll give him that 100 times