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pick up coverage next in the situation room. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitz her in washington along with erin burnett in new york. we re following major breaking news on the vote a short while ago to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house of representatives, the first in the history of the u.s. congress. an incredible day. mccarthy s ouster led by congressman matt gaetz, joined by other gop hard liners. it was sealed by democrats who could have stepped up to save mccarthy, and they refused to do it. extremely historic and dramatic, indeed. house business, for all practical purposes, is paralyzed as the chamber faces the very difficult and divisive challenge of choosing a new speaker of the house. we re standing by for a meeting of house republicans this hour. this is a special edition of the situation room. we begin on capitol hill where our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju, is coverin ....
Both parties are at this point. i will point out each side wanted the candidate that won the other party s side s nomination to win, seen as the two weaker general election candidates and that makes it a fascinating contrast heading into the poll. really where you have candidates, we talk about sometimes, oh, the two parties are the same, they are not the same in this race at all. do you have a favorite? the polling? the polling is very limited. i will point out that as we said in the opening segment, the state has not elected a democratic governor since 1994. this is a midterm election. donald trump is very unpopular, perhaps a little less so far. this is the best shots the democratic have to win the governorship in the sunshine since since 94. the other big race last night, of course, is in arizona. has mcsally done enough to win trump s base in november? obviously trump didn t endorse anyone formally. he sort of backed all of them. but she s no joe arpaio. ....
Wifg the wealthy a tax cut. the idea of a tax reform bill while the administration and congress would like something of meaning to take place before the end of 2017, they d originally said that this bill, the treasure secretary said they d have tax reform done by the august recess, now he s saying the end of the year, the bottom line in a hard to get done congress, i don t know how that gets done even though the president is out giving speeches to support it. trump, with almost every new president you have a honey moon period that happens decade after decade, usually you ve been able to get something through. obviously trump didn t get anything through with health care. now he s looking at tax reform. it is interesting that you re seeing some democratic senators saying they ll work with trump on that because they see that the power he has over the republican power and trumpland, but it will be difficult to get ....
Offering is something that would make it a lot more palatable. essentially providing him some cover so that trump could say you know it s kind of a two-win he gets the win for ending the program serving the base. but he gets to tell dreamers he has been working on it like he did before and this is an opportunity to say that. now, look, dwres it s hard to get anything passed in congress. there is a lot of sympathy for these group of immigrants. more than any other group of undocumented immigrants. you saw that with paul ryan s you know talk earlier today on the radio. but getting anything through this congress has been difficult. getting them to agree on what the actual weather is is difficult. franco stay with us please. indira thank you for staying with us and it s always a pleasure. one senator calls the president poorly informed and reminds his colleagues we answer to the american people. that senator, republican john mccain. ....
I mean, like it is a damning chronology. you have a president of the united states sitting at home in his golf club with his son-in-law and daughter, and a 31-year-old aide drafting this letter, presenting it to his team, including the vice president on the monday, and then they all come out with this phoney line about they were acting on rosenstein s recommendation. this chronology is just being completely blown up. trump had blown it up with his interview with lester holt and other things he said. but the fact that pence was in the room in the oval that is what we call a bad fact. i don t know about the legality about this and the shifting because no one does because it s been kept very quiet. we can see who mueller is hiring, the caliber of investigators that he is hiring. we can now see that the white house is on the back foot. the credibility has been shot. ....