ambulance. this whole thing playing out live on national television. and before clearly shell shocked players, and staff and fans. you see the team there together in prayer as the ambulance was leaving the field. let s go to vince right now. adrienne broaddus is standing by at the hospital where hamlin is being treated. what is the very latest? reporter: kate, at this hour, he is on a ventilator. fans are used to him fighting on the field to help lead his team to victory. but right now that 24-year-old is fighting for his life. the first monday night football game of 2023 between the buffalo bills and cincinnati bengals ended abruptly in tragedy after damar hamlin s tackle on bengal s wide receiver tee higgins. you see hamlin standing briefly and then collapsing on the field. now another bills player is down. when i saw that young man fall to the ground the way he did, it it felt like my soul had left my body. reporter: within minutes after hamlin s collapse, medica
good tuesday morning, everybody. i am lindsey reiser live at msnbc world headquarters in new york city. right now we are one hour away from the convening of the 118th congress on capitol hill. a scenario unlike anything we have seen before. one question remaining, will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the house? right now it s not clear the california republican has the votes to secure the gavel. he seemed optimistic about the outcome this morning. do you have the votes yet? we will have a good day today. we do know house republicans spent the last hour huddleded in a closed door meeting where mccarthy addressed his caucus, but was he able to sway any republicans standing in his way. and just in the last hour we heard from congressman, scott perry. over the 14 years he has been in leadership, he has done almost virtually nothing to change it. and under pressure from a group of members that said we are not any longer going to accept the status quo, and we have been abl
Had less than 200 members. we are now sitting in the majority. we put forth to the american public a commitment to america. there s times we are going to have to argue with our own members if they are looking for only positions for themselves and not the country. for the last two months we worked together as a conference for rules that empowered all members, and we are not empowering certain people over others, and last night i was presented with a way to get the votes if they had certain budgets, and they came to the position where matt gaetz said i don t care if we vote somebody that hurts the front line members not to get re-elected. that s not about america. i will always fight to put the american people first and not a few individuals that want something for themselves, so we may have a battle on the floor but the battle is for the conference and the country, and that s fine with me.
We re now sitting in the majority. we put forth to the american public a commitment to america. there is times where we re going to have to argue with our own members if they re looking at only positions for themselves and not for the country. for last two months we worked together as a whole conference to develop rules that empower all members. but we re not empowering certain mem members over others. last night i was presented the only way to get 218 votes if i provided certain positions or gavels and have certain budgets and they even came to the position where one matt gaetz said i don t care if go to plurality and we elect hakeem jeffries and it hurts the front line members fnot to get re-elected. that is not about america. i ll put america first not a few individuals. but the battle is for the conference and the country and that is fine with me. what do you you have a
Form, after kevin mccarthy, resurrected the disgraced former president s career weeks later by flying down to mar-a-lago and kissing the ring. this time it played out like this, the gop panicked in the wake of the midterms with one long time trump adviser saying the party has followed him off a cliff. then, just a day after clinching the house, former trump adviser steven miller was spotted walking into kevin mccarthy s office. the hot stove, they just keep putting their hand on it. in the campaign leading up to the midterms, most republicans said they would be focused on inflation, crime, and addressing the issues impacting the american people. they were trying to own those messages. in some ways even steal them from the democrats. but let s see how long that lasted. take a look. what americans want, need and deserve is a clear, common sense alternative. and that s what s happening with the house republicans. we will provide to the american