The cnn newsroom on this new years day. We have a Major Development on that bizarre attack that unfolded near last nights new years eve festivities in times square. Three new York City Police officers are recovering after an unprovoked attack by a man wielding a machete. Multiple Law Enforcement sources tell us the 19yearold suspect was carrying some of his writings and his radical views. What have you learned, gloria . Thats right, pamela. Good evening. Weve been trying to learn more about this suspect as you said, a 19yearold man. We can now tell you he was, in fact, carrying a hand written dillry. In it he expressed his desire to join the Taliban In Afghanistan and die as a martyr. Thats according to multiple Law Enforcement sources. Now, investigators believe the suspect arrived in New York City on thursday and he checked into a hotel in the leer east side. Investigators and sources also telling my colleague john miller that he traveled to times square on saturday. Thats when polic
thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
Governor Mike Huckabee will weigh in. And director comey says clintons email account could have been hacked. It is possible that hostile actors gained access to secretary clintons personal email account. Dr. Seb gorka and Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters will have reaction. All of that and the Trump Campaign responds. Eric trump will join us. Hannity starts right here, right now. Welcome to hannity. Tonight the fbi decides not to recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clintons use of a private email server during her time and tenure as secretary of state. This comes despite the fact that the bureau said that clinton and her staff were, quote, extremely careless with how they handled classified information. Heres fbi director james comey from earlier today. Secretary clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the state department. She also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email on that personal domain. From the gro
Governor Mike Huckabee will weigh in. And director comey says clintons email account could have been hacked. It is possible that hostile actors gained access to secretary clintons personal email account. Dr. Sebastian gorka and Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters will have reaction. All of that and the Trump Campaign responds. Eric trump will join us. Hannity starts right here, right now. Welcome to hannity. Tonight the fbi decides not to recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clintons use of a private email server during her time and tenure as secretary of state. This comes despite the fact that the bureau said that clinton and her staff were, quote, extremely careless with how they handled classified information. Heres fbi director james comey from earlier today. Secretary clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the state department. She also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email on that personal domain. From t
fleshed out, and my follow-up question to you is, if for them defeating mccarthy the be-all end-all, let s say they get a generic similar to mac carthy in how he runs the caucus more than the so-called fringe, but for them that would be a good victory because they would feel and look powerful and have them more afraid than mccarthy is. in some ways it s about ken mccarthy and some ways it s not. is the 180, 200 members with the rest of the group rrk they actually in charge of the direction the conference goes, or are they going to allow a small group of 15 or 20 people to break the rest of the conference? it s what we ve dealt with for years and years. obviously the difference is between the boehner and ryan speakerships, we had a 20-seat majority. we fought the numbers. kevin mccarthy is dealing with a