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Sean welcome to hannity, history and capitol hill eight republican lawmakers joining al 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Mccarthy will not seat the speaker sheet again. Now sources are telling me at this hour that some House Republicans have been in contac with and has started an effort to draft former president donal trump to be the next speaker an i have been told that President Trump might be open to helping the Republican Party at least i the short term if necessary. If its needed. Here is former speaker mc carthy earlier tonight, lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight me be in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. I will have the Conference Pick someone else. I think today was a political decision by the democrats. I think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. They just started removing people from committee and they just started doing other things. My fear is the institution felt today. You cant do the job
Lets get started. Tonight we begin with breaking developments on the burgeoning efforts to oust Kevin Mccarthy from his role of Speaker Of The House. This morning farright republican matt gaetz vowed to file a socalled motion to vacate. Thats a move to event the speaker. He says hes going to do that in the coming days. Saying, quote, we need to rebuff the bandaid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. According to politico, some house president conservatives predict there is at least a dozen gop members ready to support the motion to vacate against mccarthy. Now to Progressive Democrats have indicated their support as well. Shortly after the announcement from gaetz, Congresswoman Alexdria ocasiocortez shows she would, quote, absolutely voted for a motion to vacate it. She left the door open in negotiations if mccarthy came to democrats for help. Also said its not up to democrats to save republicans from themselves. Just hours ago on this network, Congr
Developments on the burgeoning efforts to oust Kevin Mccarthy from his role of Speaker Of The House. This morning farright republican matt gaetz vowed to file a socalled motion to vacate. Thats a move to event the speaker. He says hes going to do that in the coming days. Saying, quote, we need to rebuff the bandaid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that n be trustworthy. According to politico, some house president conservatives predict there is at least a dozen gop members ready to support the motion to vacate against mccarthy. Now to Progressive Democrats have indicated their support as well. Shortly after the announcement from gaetz, congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez shows she would, quote, absolutely voted for a motion to vacate it. She left the door open in negotiations if mccarthy came to democrats for help. Also said its not up to democrats to save republicans from themselves. Just hours ago on this network, Congressman Ilhan Omar endorsed a motion to vacate. I
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. President biden has a message tonight for republican lawmakers in the House Of Representatives. The brinksmanship has to end. The president s remarks come after congress prepped within a few hours of a deadline that would have hurt millions of americans. The crisis was averted by a rare display of strong bipartisan cooperation, but republican hardliners are outraged that House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy made a deal with democrats. Florida congressman matt gaetz on the republican side says this week, he will call for a vote to Strip Mccarthy of that post. Its unclear whether other republicans will join him. In the meantime, mccarthy says that this is nothing more than a publicity stunt. You know, this is personal with matt. Matt voted against the most conservative ability to protect our border, secure our border. Hes more interested in securing interviews than doing something. He wanted to push us into a shutdown,