a look at the possible next speaker of the house of representatives if republicans win control of the chamber in this year s election, minority leader kevin mccarthy from california, who went from initially acknowledging trump s culpability in the january 6 attack to spending the past year absolving the former president of any responsibility and white washing what happened. what might speaker mccarthy do? for house minority leader kevin mccarthy one over riding question seems to have been at the top of his mind for years. can i be speaker? reporter: mccarthy s quest for the speaker s gavel started shortly after being elected to congress in 2006 joining leadership in three years, becoming the house s third most powerful republican in five years. before taking the leader role in
six hours ago the president tweeted that professional anarchists, thugs, and paid protesters are proving the point of millions of people who voted to make america great again. does the administration have any intention of investigating the groups who have been riding question mexico i think we know who they are, i think we don t need to do an investigation. does the president seen the letter sent from senator mccain yesterday, and if so, is he looking into arming the ukrainians? i don t know, we ll have to get back. ambassador nikki haley came out with a strong statement on russia yesterday. does he have administration have plans to keep the sanctions against russia in place, or do they have any intention of adding more sanctions? there are two things, one i think i commented the other day on the sanctions that treasury put out, those are in fact routine. or the clarification, or routine clarification that occurs. with respect to the sanctions i think ambassador haley made a
then we are going to know. i am discouraged the republican party makes such a big deal about trump being loyal to the party. the party better be loyal to whoever the nominee is be it me or be it donald trump. otherwise we have no system, nothing at all. huckabee and kasich are two of the lowest pollings. they have no intent to get out of the race. we are 34 days until the first votes are cast. the weekly standard steve haze and bill kristol giving predictions about the votes in iowa. i think there s one primary over riding question that will define the republican race that is will the people today say they support donald trump, be trump voters in february, march
puerto rico in her short-term path. cuba and florida unnoticed. they best get ready. this morning the nation s hurricane center upgraded to a category 5 with winds up to 175 miles per hour. it s a big storm. i talked to the president last night. the president promised me all of the federal resources that we might need. and congress is back with a parked consequential month ahead. one overer riding question, can the president do business with his own party after spending the summer attacking them? but i said, mitch, get to work and let s get it done. they should have had this last one done. they lost by one vote. for a thing like that to happen is a disgrace. and, frankly, it shouldn t have happened. that i can tell you. we begin with the major breaking immigration news and talk about passing the buck. candidate trump promised bold immigration changes including ending obama administration