bitter conflict among house republicans. former minority leader kevin mccarthy is being opposed by landful of lawmakers who are refusing to support him. a number that increased by one on the last balloting for speaking. chad pergram has been following this all day minute by minute. he tells us where things stand tonight from a chaotic capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, as you say. the most chaos for the beginning of a congress in 100 years. it marked a foreboding start for a g.o.p. majority which promised big things in the midterms. the house voted all afternoon. kevin mccarthy lacks the votes to become speaker. mccarthy and his allies are determined to keep voting and wear down his opponents. are you going to stay in the race, leader mccarthy. yes. i m not going anywhere. look, i have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor. i don t have a problem getting a record for the most votes for speaker, too. there were only five g.o.p. members officially opp
Conservative principles including law and order and florida s covid policies. and he also vowed to fight liberal policies and woke ideology. we seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy. we will not allow reality facts and truth to become optional. we will never surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die. [applause] bret: governor desantis beat charlie crist landslide 19 point in the november election. virginia republican governor glenn youngkin is calling for an investigation into school officials accused of withholding test scores. thomas jefferson high school for science and technology is accused of not releasing psat scores on time for students to apply for scholarship opportunities. more than 1,000 students are thought to be affected. still ahead, the panel reacts to the votes for house speaker, still not resolved. and, later, tuesday tweets
Biden is presiding over by any historical metric a booming economy putting people back to work in record numbers, producing jobs that are record numbers and creating wages at record numbers and when you turn on the news in general and look at the washington post website, that s not the story you get told every single day despite months of robust job creation, the job is often tilting negative and in part because the republican propaganda machine praise, they pray on the news media and they re bias towards both sides to try and take advantage of it and peddle their propaganda that everything is horrible and there is doom and gloom and america is broken but the data, reality facts say otherwise. the media has to stop falling for this republican game and being played because the facts say otherwise. the economy is doing great. there are things they could do better. there are challenges. there are always challenges.
U.s.-held taliban prisoners. lieutenant colonel tony shaffer predicted the charges of desertion would indeed come this month. the pentagon shot that story down until they came out with their news yesterday. tony shave schaefer joins us now. good to have you as always. thank you, martha, for having me on. martha: you took a bit of heat. just a bit. martha: pentagon came out, admiral kirby said absolutely not. that is not happening here. what happened? reality facts spokes for themselves. don t get me wrong. i love john kirby. he is a great guy. he had essentially to do what he had to regarding the pentagon s position at that moment. frankly the army did the right thing here, martha. there was huge pressure behind the scenes from the white house to make this quietly go away. notably there are a number of folks behind the scenes at the pentagon and army who wanted to keep this on the front burner. that is why you saw essentially this issue forced, i think
I know i said this is a guarantee sh period. i was wrong. this is how i was wrong. there wasn t even an honest, let me tell it to you straight now. you know 2 million of you have been cancelled so far and it s likely to be 10, 14, 15 million. there was a just enjoy it. just go to the exchanges. does that hurt him? do people who loved the president and believed his words on baobama care now start to sa wow, wait a minute. some of the ak lites have religious investment in obama. they are not going to change. empirical reality facts won t alter it. there is a vast number of americans who want to give the president the benefit of the doubt. he is the president. the only one we have. he s the leader. look at the pattern here. it s not just obama care on benghazi. did he ever say, you know, we got it wrong.