hoping new concessions offered to those 20 plus members voting against him will put him over the top. one aide told fox news mccarthy is now open to allowing just one member to introduce a motion to vacate the speaker s chair. they could get the conversation started on kicking him or anybody out of the seat with one person coming forward. also putting more house freedom caucus members on top committees. and he is promising to hold votes on the caucus s priorities like border legislation and term limits for members. patience among the rank and file is wearing thin with some suggesting that kevin mccarthy should step aside for a different candidate at this point. the leader s supporters are going after all the defectors saying enough is enough. people who are voting against kevin mccarthy in the republican conference are aiding joe biden, aiding hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer. they are the reason we re not doing the business we set out to do. these folks need to get seriou
i don t think that everybody looks like me should therefore have to think like me. if they did i don t think we would be able to be called diverse. we would be called monolithic. i think if the republican party is the party of people with different thoughts and races, they are the party of diversity. harris: also said by biden and he had to clean it up. he said blacks were monolithic. hispanics were not. this is an issue they need to sit down until they can figure stuff out. in the meanwhile, the history was made whether cori bush or others didn t like it. the white house sent more mixed messaging on covid just a couple of month after president biden himself, not a doctor, declared the pandemic was over. the biden administration quietly extended vaccine entry requirements for travelers despite evidence that they failed to keep infections down. most western nations dropped that requirement months ago. president biden was seen just yesterday wearing a mask on
by omicron in the nhs. apparently, a total of 40,000 nhs staff at hospital trusts in england were absent for covid reasons on january the 2nd. that s up 59% on the previous week, so nearly 60% increase. it s more than three times the numberfrom increase. it s more than three times the number from the start of january. those are the latest figures from nhs england. a 60% increase in the number of staff absences because of covid reasons in hospitals in england. the headlines on bbc news. 200 military personnel are being sent to london hospitals to help with covid related staff shortages. the australian government rejects claims that tennis star novak djokovic is being held captive, after he failed to meet vaccine entry requirements labour says the prime minister still has serious questions to answer over the refurbishment of his downing street flat.