hospital, so we ll take you live outside of the hospital where damar is being treated. we ll have an update on his condition, how the nfl is responding this morning, all that in just moments. and i m live on capitol hill this morning, where in just a few hours from now the 118th congress is set to convene. obviously republicans are supposed to take over the majority and after this hard fought elections across the country, a new batch of lawmakers are going to be sworn in across both parties. but right now we re also focusing on how leader mccarthy is facing a tough election of his own, the speakership. a critical meeting between republicans is set to happen moments from now. we have to get to a terrifying moment, during monday night football, buffalo bills safety damar hamlin collapsing after making a tackle. the bills say he suffered a cardiac arrest. and his heart beat was restored on the field. he is hospitalized in critical condition this morning. the scene on the fie
a terrifying injurey prompting the nfl to call off a monday night football game with millions watching at home. between the buffalo bills and cincinnati bengals. this morning a young man s life is hanging in the balance where we begin a brand-new year. i m bill hemmer, good morning at home. hello, partner. dana: asme owe dana perino. this is america s newsroom. we hope you had a very happy new year and we re here ready to go to bring you the news for a great 2023. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is in critical condition. he collapsed on the field and something was very wrong. bill: the play it happened in the first quarter monday night football. hamlin is on defense wearing a white number three jersey right there. higgins makes the catch. leads with his shoulder into the chest of hamlin. hamlin stands up briefly. he signedly collapses on the field. dana: medical staff rushed to his side and started cpr. the team announced he suffered a cardiac arrest. his heartbeat
alternative candidate either. is there anyone who can actually get the support? no, because there are so many issues here, right. so the conservatives keep saying, there is a mystery candidate who is going to emerge or alternative candidate, but there are so many members of the republican conference who are saying we re not going to accept your last second candidate. so even if they come up with some alternative candidate, that person can t get 218 votes. even scalise, a number of republicans we talked to over the last several days made very clear that scalise, they would not necessarily support him for the position because they said he would essentially give in to the people they call are there calling hostage takers, members of the republican conference calling other members hostage takers, trying to get their own speaker involved here and steve scalise has kept his head down, he is supporting kevin mccarthy, but he himself has not said what he would do or if he would challenge
more ready to join that opposition. in the last 24 hours mccarthy has made some major concessions to appease these folks. he has offered up a new rules package which includes a very controversial policy that would allow any five members to call a vote to remove the speaker at any time. here is mccarthy monday night telling fox he thinks that these concessions will turning the tide. do you have think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes? yep. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? fox is told that there are still some deeply unsatisfied and those opponents may vote will vote for arizona representative andy biggs instead in that first round and perhaps unveil a mystery candidate, dana, in the second round of voting. this is where we enter some historic territory. a second round of voting hasn t