A. M. Pacific. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is up against a motion that would remove him as speaker. President bidens son, hunter, entered a plea on three federal gun charges. The trial has become for onetime crypto billionaire, bankmanfried. Overnight, texas congressman was carjacked by three armed men a mile from the capitol. He will be with us this morning to talk about what happened. App. We begin this hour with that Breaking News on capitol hill where house speaker, Kevin Mccarthy, is facing the biggest challenge to his leadership today. The house will vote on matt gaetz motion to oust him as speaker. Right now House Democrats are Behind Closed Doors to discuss what they will do, and mccarthy expressed confidence when asked if he will still be speaker by the end of the night . If i counted how many sometimes somebody would have wanted to knock me out, i would have been gone a long time ago. And we have our guests. Ali, where does Mccarthy Stand as of this minute . He was unequivoc
to constituencies for our party. the under 50 crowd, as i like to say, we have to do a better job with. does anything tell you that s happen stphg are y happen? are you seeing that? at the moment, no. reince priebus, when he was rnc chair he made a lot of good recommendations at the time about reaching out to hispanics in particular, and we have gone in the wrong direction on that score. the president s campaign was directed more as solidifying the base, and appealing more to older white voters. you alienate a lot of hispanic voters with his comments on mexicans and latinos and the charlottesville situation, and there are comments about muslims, and so i think that has hurt us that we re not expanding the base. i always said politics and
and it s going to be okay? and this is teddy white wrote a book america in such of itself, and this one would be america on edge. i think most of us when we go to dinner parties you want to avoid crowds of people, because they will ask you what do you know and who is win stphg i know there are millions tuning in, and i have a couple people saying i can t handle the anxiety watching donald trump or hillary clinton winning the state, and many people want to wake up to the news and put it away. for the vast majority of american will be glued to the tv and new york times hopefully, and as we write the story and record the history, and i think it s incredible, and as a woman
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minutes. when she arrived i did get a chance to ask her, how are you doing and what is happen stphg she did not answer any of that, of course, and she looked a little beweilderebewildered. she left and we did not see her leave. authorities have certainly been questioning her and want as much information as they can get. thank you. to russia now and crackdown on suspected islamic extremist. russian forces raided a place of worship and detained 30 people. the site had been srevisited bee by suspected radicals, and some from chechnya. and the arrests are not said to be linked to the bombing. and look at this. it s a piece of landing gear. officials believe it s from one