jeanne moos, cnn, new york. hello again, everybody. thank you so much for joining me. happy new year. i m fredricka whitfield. news just in to cnn, an update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin. he continues to make a remarkable recovery after suffering a cardiac arrest on the field during monday s game. hamlin is now breathing on his own after having a breathing tube removed late thursday. the 24-year-old also surprised his teammates in buffalo yesterday, facetiming with them on a phone from his bed in the hospital in cincinnati. cnn has more live from the hospital in cincinnati and new information on his medical update. reporter: yes. from the physicianses here at the hospital where tamar is receiving treatment damar is receiving treatment. he is still in critical condition but continues to make progress. and here s perhaps the line in this tweet the bills just published that sticks out. as he continues to breathe on his own, his neurological function is excellent. a
The possibility of himself serving in that position before he has indicated he is opposed to that and this shows a desperate moment that republicans are in, jake and there are other possible candidates who can yet emerge and try to run for the Spook Speakership and they will run into the same problem, and nationally with Kevin Mccarthy who was pushed out of The Speakership that they would have a difficult, if not impossible time of getting to the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker given the significant divisions that are still within this badly divided republican conference traying tra tra traying to figure on the a way forward and jim jordan could lose the vote by potentially a worse margin than yesterday. It is unprecedented and frankly, embarrassing. Well get back to the vote that well see happen soon, but now lets go to israel and the american president and President Biden and the Anger Rippling across arab capitals specifically about that incident at the hospital. Cnns Kaitlan
because we anticipate something s about to happen, just like you would, you know, any live show. what was unique about how things were unfolding here? sure. we had three cameras in the chamber. we had one that was looking at the dais to get the house clerk, and any action on the floor that it might be able to see. then we had two on either side up front looking back at the lawmakers, which is where we got most of the footage of people milling in the aisles and the like. and the nomination speeches, et cetera. now in terms of how things unfolded, i had mentioned that i work with a if i didn t mention this, i should have a really talented group of field technicians. these people are on capitol hill every day when congress is in session. they re in the hearing rooms, the briefing rooms, they re in the hallways, they know these people, and they know the stories. so they were the ones who were making the decisions as to where
congressman paul ryan winning the election. the full house will vote for speaker tomorrow. meanwhile, later today, lawmakers are expected to vote on a budget deal reached by outgoing speaker john boehner. and nbc news capitol hill correspondent luke russert joins us now. so let s start with the vote for speaker and what you have been hearing about the vote. it should be finished, right? coming up shortly. reporter: well, the vote is happening as i speak to you, thomas. both paul ryan and daniel webster, two nominees, they heard from some of their colleagues that did the nomination speeches and we should be getting the vote count here shortly. the white smoke coming from the vatican if you will. we don t expect it to be close. we expect paul ryan to win this and interesting to see is the number. 230 in the conference is a low. perhaps 235. he wants to get around 235 at least and then perhaps larger tomorrow on the floor to show that he has a robust
gohmert s mission to overthrow boehner also whipped the grassroots into a frenzy. in your piece, he s quoted as saying, from a grassroots perspective, this is probably the hottest issue we ve mobilized on since obamacare. i think louie gohmert would make a great speaker. he would certainly make a great speaker from my point of view, but it would be endlessly entertaining. you could write a column every day about him. i was watching today and it was a circus. you had two dozen lunatics trying to take over the asylum, but the guys running the asylum were laughing at them. kevin mccarthy laughing when gohmert voted for himself and when these other guys are giving their nomination speeches. i think there was open ridicule from the establishment. i like boehner as a person. because he seems like a person, even though i disagree with him. a poll taken at the end of last year, a few weeks ago, shows that 60%, 3 of 5 republicans nationwide want a new speaker of the house.