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as assistant to the secretary of state, and the international trade economist rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. if at first you don t succeed, try, try and try again seems to be the game plan for kevin mccarthy in his bid to become the speaker of the house, after failing three times yesterday to get enough support from his party. but 2a hours on, the stalemate continues. he s lost twice again already today and now we are heading to a sixth vote, all because a small group of right wing republicans are blocking his path. some of them say they will never support him, no matter what concessions he gives. but mr mccarthy isn t backing down. this is the scene live in the house now, where that sixth vote is expected. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, no bills can be debated, no decisions made. so, it has to be resolved, no matter how long it takes. it could go on and on until some sort of deal is made behind the scenes. to give you a bit of history ....
thomas putting the subpoena for lindsey graham on ice for now. new reaction from capitol hill, we want to start with white house correspondent mark memoli, and ali vitali and steve kornacki at the big board. we ve seen the president out with what you can call a presidential pep talk, trying to get everybody rolling in the same direction, ahead of election day, now just 15 days away, even as steve will talk through, some of the environment is changing for democrats, who have seen new polling showing that the anger around abortion, that we saw after dobbs has started to recede. talk us through how the president is navigating this. that s right. the environment is changing fast. the president spoke to some of the whiplash a lot of people are seeing as polls go up and down, the president even saying he s not sure even pollsters are confident in their own numbers at this point. so what is the president doing? 15 days to go, until election day, a lot of people already votin ....
to leave on a major middle east trip including a controversial visit to saudi arabia. can he reset relations with the country he had vowed to make a pariah? and new efforts are now underway to free americans britney greiner and paul whalen from captivity in russia. the better and hostage negotiator former governor bill richardson is now expected to travel to moscow in hopes of winning the release. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. on this the eve of the next january six hearing, select committee aides are sharing new details on what to expect as the panel zeros in on the far right extremists at the forefront of the insurrection. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles has our report from capitol hill. the justice department says they were among the writers causing the most trouble on january sixth. right wing extremist groups many of which came to washington intent on disr ....
returns to primetime, promising to present its most compelling evidence to date, detailing the three plus hours that trump failed to about while the capitol was under attack. republican committee member congressman adam kinzinger released clips of trump aides describing what the president was doing as the violence unfolded. was the president in that dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on, or did he ever go, to your knowledge, to the oval office, the white house situation room, anywhere else? to the best of my rec recol recollection, he was always in the dining room. what do you recall? i think everybody was watching the tv. do you know whether he was watching tv in the dining room when you talked to him on january 6th? umm, it s my understanding he was watching television. when you were in the dining room during these discussions [ inaudible ] yes. one woman you saw is molly michaels. she was trump s executive assistan ....
that time tatenhough. nbc news reports while he was not part of the oath keepers whose members have pled guilty to seditious conspiracy in connection to the riots or the events leading up to january 6th, the source said jason van tatenhove is expected to speak about the radicalization including how stewart rhodes capitalized on conspiracy theorys to build capitalism and funding. from the white house s top lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down with the committee for more than seven hours and here s what stephanie murphy had to say. we were grateful that he was willing to come before the committee and share with us. of course, there were areas where he claimed privilege, but it was important for us to understand what the president s top legal adviser thought about the activities that were happening post-election and in the run-up to january 6th. and now on the eve of another critical hearing likely to reveal more damaging details about the conduct of the ex-president and ....