any moment now, president biden will pledge to add american battle tanks too. that prompts a dramatic warning from russia. red lines are a thing of the past. plus, he did it too. the president s allies see a classified discovery at mike pence s house as a political gift to defuse a three-week-long white house crisis. and retribution on capitol hill. the house speaker kevin mccarthy refuses to seat a pair of democrats on the house intelligence committee. next up an attempt to remove another democratic lightning rod from the panel that oversees foreign policy. eric swalwell would be in the private sector and can t get a security clearance there, we are not going to provide him with the secrets to america. hakeem jeffries has 200 other straight to the white house and the president of the united states. yesterday marked 11 months since russia s brutal full-scale invasion of ukraine. 11 months in which ukrainian people have showed putin and the world the full force of th
the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. newly elected speaker of the house kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel there after four days of voting, the longest speaker contest in 164 years. but despite the sometimes contentious days of negotiations, with the narrow faction of his conference, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. i make this promise i ll never give up for you, the american people. and i will never give up on keeping our commitment to america. our nation is worth fighting for. our rights are worth fighting. our dreams are worth fighting for. our future is worth fighting for. [ cheers and applause ] cnn s eva mckend is live for us on capitol hill. so, eva, you know, how did mccarthy eventually get those votes that he needed? reporter: fred, by convincing those holdouts, those never-kevin lawmakers ultimately to vote present. that isn t a ringing endors
speaker. we do know house republicans joined a conference call to talk about a possible new deal on the table. but multiple people on the call tell nbc news, kevin mccarthy acknowledges he still does not have enough votes to become speaker after 11 rounds. we spoke with kevin mccarthy ahead of that call and this is what he this is all leaving one-third of our government functionally paralyzed just as the nation marks the second anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol. politico making the note that, quote, a handful of republicans who remained in the january 6th sights throughout its investigations are now leading the effort to deny mccarthy the speakership. one officer who defended lawmakers on january 6th pointed out the irony of what s happening on the hill right now. no matter what anybody s thoughts about which way it s going, the right that think the fact that they have the right to be able to do that in a safe environment is kind of what we provided
we don t understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there the, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry. hey, when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: five days after the shooting, still questions as to could a number of them have been prevented. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. for the next two hours, we re going to be exploring exactly what happened in texas and the mixed signals we re getting out of that school and what happened in t