let me be the first to tell you that there is finally a new speaker of the house, and the 118 congress has officially been convened. it took four days, and 15 tries, but in the early hours of this morning, the california congressman, kevin mccarthy, was finally elected the new speaker, putting him third in line for the presidency of the united states. it was a tough road getting there, especially last night, when tensions between republican members themselves, almost reached a breaking point. from the house reconvened at 10 pm last night, republicans appeared hopeful that they had votes to elect mccarthy on the 14th ballot, but when that seem headed for baylor, mccarthy s allied huddled around the florida congressman, matt gates, to get him to vote for mccarthy. instead, gates voted present, which is not good enough to win mccarthy in speakership. after the roll call, mccarthy himself approached gates, the two exchanged words amid a group of other lawmakers. mccarthy was the
Till midnight, or even when i am, and you and i were together on tv till far later than that. they ll know for taylor. andrew governor, you just heard him, problem solvers caucus, more moderate member of the republican conference. trying, and if you re trying harder this naturally cursed him to not come down hard on that group of 20 rebels and then six through this week and kevin mccarthy speakership into disarray. we did see mike rogers, lunch at matt gates last night. something i mentioned earlier in the week, is it gonna come to blows and the floors of congress. we ve been seeing that in a very long time. somebody trained him, you can see it here, he s coming up and you ll see him sort of, i don t really know what happened. he reaches in, it doesn t look like he was going to do much, but then somebody grabs him and pulls him back. kevin mccarthy notices something s happen, turns around starts walking back in a group of people have gathered around. i say this all as set up to,
Donald trump, last weekend, start talking openly at one of his rallies, about offering pardons to january six rioters if he becomes president again. calling the patriots an interview this week. today, the reversal in public can thinking in january six appears to be complete. the january six investigation in congress, the committee, set up to investigate the attack, as you, know just two republican members. these two. the only two republican members of congress, who are willing to participate an illegitimate inquiry. liz cheney of wyoming, adam kinzinger of illinois. they are both conservative republicans. liz cheney voted with the president trump at the time, more than 90% of the time. she regularly professes herself disgusted with a lot of things that democrats stand for and everything to try to do in congress. because of their participation in the january six investigation, today, the republican national committee
It across, almost, the entire political spectrum. as you may have noticed, things have changed in the past year. some republicans in congress started saying that, okay, jenner six was bad. the whole thing was actually the democrats fault. it was nancy pelosi s fault. that, some republican started saying that nothing that bad had actually even happened on january 6th. it was basically a, quote, normal tourist visit. in fact, the gender six riders being held against bars for their alleged violent acts were political prisoners. it s only a matter time before donald trump, last weekend, start talking openly at one of his rallies, about offering pardons to january six rioters if he becomes president again. calling the patriots an interview this week. today, the reversal in public can thinking in january six appears to be complete. the january six investigation in congress, the committee, set up to the attack, as you, know just
Surfacing between the president and a porn star. according to documents first reported by the wall street journal, a second lawyer with ties to the trump organization was involved in the legal effort to prevent adult film actress stormy daniels from talking about her alleged affair with mr. trump. those documents appear to link the trump organization to a private company that the president s personal lawyer, michael conhen, set up to pay daniels $130,000 just before the election. of course, the white house has said the president denies any allegations of an affair with daniels and that mr. trump was unaware of any payments. danny cevallos joins our pavel. the trump organization gave this statement in response to the story. quote, the trump organization is not representing anyone and with the exception of one of its california-based attorney in her individual, individual capacity, facilitating the initial filing pending the prohawk admission of mr. rosen, the company has had