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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 ....
Acosta right now. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. Up on capitol hill, a shutdown is averted but a showdown is looming. While there was a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Republican Dysfunction In The House is ramping up this week. Maga hardliners there are expected to try to oust House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy and outraged over his deal with the democrats to keep the government funded and from capitol hill to the wouse were following all of the fallout from yesterdays dramatic turn of events melanie zanona, on set here with me in washington and Arlette Saenz is over at the white house. Let me go to you first. President biden spoke on this deal today and commented on the ugly politics of it all. Sensing ....
With the republican establishment. we have a clip i want to bring up of mccarthy. what hangs over all of this we just talked a lot about the math that got here. and then there s the fact that this is someone who has really tried to curry all the favor he could with these maga hardliners, with trump, and even at times minimizing the horrific insurrection that at one point he publicly claimed to be against. take a look at it all. i completely condemn the violence in the capitol. i ve spoken to the president. i asked him to talk to the nation to tell them to stop this. this is not who we are. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. that s pretty important, chai. consider that, and here we are just two years later, right, we re here in the new january, but it was a year ago in 21 that he went back to trump, went to mar-a-lago. he tried to attack the january 6th committee, and then ultimately pulled all his picks ....
You because we give any credence to the outcome or the conclusions. indeed, experts in both parties and nonpartisan election officials say that this has become a debacle and that the claims in the draft report has basically no validity. this is not about an audit. this is about donald trump and the big lie and just creating kind of noise around it. the group that did this call themselves cyber ninjas. they got partisan money from the republican party. they re not part of any actual independent audit. despite what some are calling a humiliating conclusion, apparently not stopping the insanity. maga hardliners in several states are continuing this project. texas, where trump won at a state level is going to review its own 2020 election, but just in four counties that they selected. that was a new announcement that came eight hours after trump demanded. what is really going on here and why isn t it going away? ....