the people with the easiest job in town right now are the democrats. hakeem jeffries, the new incoming democratic leader, he outpaced kevin mccarthy the last time. democrats said that that was an example of unity in their party here. and if this gets too flakey, let s say this goes on for a couple of days, if republicans don t have enough of their members in the house chamber or who vote for somebody by name, you could wind up with a crazy scenario and we talked about this on the air a couple weeks ago where hakeem jeffries could become be speaker of the house that is very unlikely. you don t know after you go into this vote after vote after vote. we ll probably be at this awhile today, maybe tomorrow, maybe later this week. right now this is an inauspicious start for house republicaning coming in to control with their majority. martha: chad, thank you very much. we ll be back with you throughout the hour.
0 john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. i m martha maccallum live in our nation s capitol covering this drama that we did expect and now unfolding in a fascinating way on the house floor. the new republican majority there is in a historic battle as a handful try to block kevin mccarthy from the speaker s gavel which he has wanted a long time and worked very hard to get in the mid-terms. bret baier is standing by on set with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot fo
the house republicaning went after the administration you serve where it seemed like bad cop, bad cop. there were six benghazi committees. that doesn t mean that s something to automatically echo. i wonder what you think between the legal process and congress being tough. what do you think of the approach? it depends on what you think the outcome ought to be. if you think it ought the president not be impeached by the house, you think this division is okay and the speaker slowing the house judiciary committee down is okay but if you want the president to be impeached, what it means is it s not going to happen. impeaching of then. president i not something you can do as a halfhearted effort. it s something thete party has be behind and the resources of the house has to be behind. as i pointed out earlier, it s a political question inside the house and it s a political request out in the country with voters. if voters w are hearing that hoe
and you know, we are witnessing a massacre. cnn is now inside syria. our arwa damon is there. she is taking shelter in a safe house and she is saying the country is headed toward a full-blown war. that s what the folks that are living there are thinking is going to happen. and on the election front, some trouble on home surf for mitt romney. he s from michigan and seems to be losing it at this point. in the meantime, his super pac is funneling a ton of money into that state, but is it going to the right place? associatiso, parents out th would you feel if your child was forced to pay for something like not looking a teacher in the key? chicago charter schools are under fire this morning for fining children, many from low-income homes, for that and many other things as well. one minute after the top of the hour. exclusive details into cnn about whitney houston s funeral plans, how her family s coping with her death at this time, all at the same time that her body was flo