martha: thanks, dana. a lot of coverage here. bret, going back to the history of kevin mccarthy, back in 2015, he wanted to be speaker then. paul ryan, who didn t want to be speaker got recruited and pulled in to take over that gavel. he worked alongside donald trump and they had big wins but not a great relationship in the end. people watching this saying, there s a real push and tug among republicans, some that want some real reform and that s what we re seeing in these 19 votes. whether or not they have the traction, we don t know. there s a frustration to the average republican watching this. they just worked hard on a campaign or made a special effort to vote and told their friends to vote republican. here they are. they delivered the house of representatives and now they
0 john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. i m martha maccallum live in our nation s capitol covering this drama that we did expect and now unfolding in a fascinating way on the house floor. the new republican majority there is in a historic battle as a handful try to block kevin mccarthy from the speaker s gavel which he has wanted a long time and worked very hard to get in the mid-terms. bret baier is standing by on set with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot fo
of attention. she had her first communion two weeks ago. eliahanah cruz torres, a softball player. looking forward to the last game of the season. said to take place the day that she was killed. and ellie garcia, who liked basketball, 70, and don t think. rojelio torres, whose father said that he was very intelligent, hardworking, and will never be forgotten. alithia ramirez, her father says she loved to draw, she wanted to be an artist. jaliah nicole silguero, who didn t want to go to school the day of the shooting. she loved making tiktok s. she died along with her cousin, jayce carmelo luevanos. the family said he always had a smile on his face. and he was full of life.