Live Breaking News & Updates on Mccarthy Dropping Out
Stay updated with breaking news from Mccarthy dropping out. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
elected. we ll see what happens today. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. the house will resume its session two hours from now. last night 20 republicans voted against kevin mccarthy in the third round of voting. dana: without a speaker is house is unable to swear in members or vote on any legislation. congressman elect mike lawlor slammed those opposing mccarthy last hour. it s shameful and embarrassing and proofing themselves incapable of governing. jim jordan s committee on judiciary to do investigations can t do it. securing the border, guess what, can t do it. these 19 individuals have tried to hold the rest of us hostage and they have no plan no plan and no person to be the speaker. bill: now to the way forward, whatever that is. james freeman wall street journal has analysis and chad pergram has the reporting live from the hill. that s where we begin. good morning. this is the world s biggest game of chicken. the thing to watch is whether support ....
hi there, everyone, here we go again. it s 4:00 in new york. at this hour, the house of representatives is completely and totally paralyzed. it is unable and incapable of swearing in members, forming committees, setting rules for itself, passing legislation even in the case of an emergency, couldn t do any of those things. it s a state of chaos and paralysis that is unprecedent ed in modern american history and it is all because the new republican house majority cannot agree on who should lead it in the 118th congress. house gop leader kevin mccarthy has moved into the speaker s office already, appears to be living by the motto, if at first you don t succeed try, try, try, try, try, try again. he has now lost five votes for the speakership, a sixth vote is underway. it s already clear from the math that mccarthy doesn t have the votes to become speaker of the house of representatives this time either. democrats for their part quietly made history yesterday by choosing t ....
Support for mccarthy starts to wane. he got a boost this morning from former president trump. mr. trump wrote that quote it is now time for all great republican members to vote for kevin. but mr. trump s wattage is not what it used to be. republicans are starting to shoot inside the tent. a lot of these members have been irrelevant. they haven t passed anything and now they are in the limelight in enjoying fundraising off this tomorrow these actions. if mccarthy doesn t begin to gain votes serious conversations could talk about mccarthy dropping out. these five people need to take a deep breath tonight and ask themselves are they really want to send a signal that every five people in the conference can screw up everything for ....
I think that s a real possibility because between now and 8:00 p.m., there s nothing else that s going to change that gives kevin the votes, and one thing that we have talked about is the constituent pressure on those 20, i ve had an opportunity to see some of the electronic communications to one hoff those members in particular. there is no way one of those 20 can easily back out and surf survive the home district pressure. they are seen as these warriors going to topple mccarthy. rebels at least in my childhood were a good thing. garrett, i heard you were waving. you ve got more. i think david s analysis may be good here. i don t have any independent reporting on the idea of mccarthy dropping out. the question that has troubled me through this entire process and did as i was listening to your conversation with jim himes remains if not mccarthy who? mccarthy has plenty of faults. we ve talked about them at length on this show. but he s really good at internal ....
Yesterday. capitol hill buzzing over accusations that might have motivated him. we should point out they are at this point only acquisitions. ma manu raju joins us. why he dropped out rumors about an affair. what do you know? reporter: yeah, that rumor about the affair has been circulating for sometime but ever since in that 24-hour period of mr. mccarthy dropping out of the speaker s race, people speculated as to the reason why he did. the reason why mr. mccarthy said is because he said he s a political liability and didn t want to put his conference through a tough vote to get him elected as speaker but others speculated to reasons as to why and one was an alleged affair between mr. mccarthy and the congresswoman from north carolina. both have strongly denied that there was anything there and i want to make very clear to our viewers, there is no evidence ....