hospital, so we ll take you live outside of the hospital where damar is being treated. we ll have an update on his condition, how the nfl is responding this morning, all that in just moments. and i m live on capitol hill this morning, where in just a few hours from now the 118th congress is set to convene. obviously republicans are supposed to take over the majority and after this hard fought elections across the country, a new batch of lawmakers are going to be sworn in across both parties. but right now we re also focusing on how leader mccarthy is facing a tough election of his own, the speakership. a critical meeting between republicans is set to happen moments from now. we have to get to a terrifying moment, during monday night football, buffalo bills safety damar hamlin collapsing after making a tackle. the bills say he suffered a cardiac arrest. and his heart beat was restored on the field. he is hospitalized in critical condition this morning. the scene on the fie
Hoping that he pulls through and we re hoping everything works out okay, so thank you so much, okay? thank you, don. jordan rooney, as you said, probably the closest person i think so, that we heard from, for sure. so, kaitlan, we re watching what happens there in cincinnati. and we re watching what is happening in washington right now. yeah, two major zwroir stori playing out this morning. on capitol hill, the new congress, is set to convene today. the vote for the house speaker is a few hours away but very much still in question as kevin mccarthy has been working to lock down the votes he needs to take thelearned he met privatelh some of his potential opponents. joining us now is pennsylvania republican congressman brian fitzpatrick. thank you so much. the question is kevin mccarthy going to get to 218 today? he ll get there. i don t know if it will be today. that s going to be an open question. we have a meeting at 9:00 this
and how? listen, kaitlan and grace, how is he being seated? he has to constitutionally. in the old days we talked about this. usually it s listen, i m sorry, i don t have the confidence of the people. in the old days you wouldn t get seated. they would refuse to seat you. that was a different deal. this is where shamelessness comes in, where character comes in and where republicans need to lead. grace, real quick, i want you to have the final stamp. anything new in the reporting we should know about? you mentioned this is not extradition. he s not being forced to respond to the charges. depending on how he chooses to he could stay, continue to serve in congress. he could go back. they re obtaining local counsel.
Governing majority. that s what his allies wanted. they wanted 230 seats, 240 seats, certainly not 222 seats because they re in the very problem they were fearing would essentially happen here. and now they have to deal with it as a result. and as you said, i talked to bob good yesterday. he said he will still vote no. that s the problem here, no matter what kevin mccarthy does, he has this immoveable conference who doesn t really care whether or not they the congress goes into chaos because essentially they believe that it will achieve their objective here. and one of the complaints of conservatives is that mccarthy thought he was going to have a larger majority and therefore he didn t really start those conversations early enough in scott perry s mind. i think that is really going to be a determining factor today as to why some of the conservatives just aren t going to get on board. yeah. fascinating moment. lauren fox, manu raju, thank you, both. i know you got a big day ahead
Court. that charge was received after officials couldn t track him down. so he reportedly was already in the united states. archived after they couldn t track him down. joining us now new york times reporter grace ashland. grace, you have been reporting on this story out of brazil where santos is denying he committed a crime, saying there s nothing criminal, nothing happened. the reports are that he previously admitted to it. another shocking twist here. good morning, thank you for having me. this comes on the eve of santos swearing in to congress today. certainly a layer of unwanted additional scrutiny. he s denied these charges. the court records show that mr. santos admitted to using the