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>> bill: the house cant do a thing without electing a new speaker. cant swear in a new member or staff committees or serve on a check on the biden administration. >> dana: 90% of republicans support kevin mccarthy for speaker. opting to support jim jordan or andy biggs. >> bill: the chamber will be deadlocked for days, maybe weeks. some think they could call -- >> dana: the house reconvenes in three hours and theyll try again. what happens after that is anyones guess. >> are you going ...

well, the new house judiciary chairman, jim jordan, announcing hes launching an investigation into the dojs actions related to president bidens handling of classified documents. hes demanding the department turn over a variety of information including all communications related to yesterdays appointment of special counsel. its hard to believe this is whats happening one week ago, but at just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at an...

. new house judiciary chairman jim jordan announcing hes launching an investigation into the dojs actions related to president bidens handling of classified documents, demanding the department turn over a variety of information communicating all communications relating to yesterdays special counsel, hard to believe this is happening one week ago but just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at another lawmaker and we still didnt kn...

elected. well see what happens today. >> bill: im bill hemmer. good morning. the house will resume its session two hours from now. last night 20 republicans voted against kevin mccarthy in the third round of voting. >> dana: without a speaker is house is unable to swear in members or vote on any legislation. congressman elect mike lawlor slammed those opposing mccarthy last hour. >> its shameful and embarrassing and proofing themselves incapable of governing. jim jordans committee on j...

in "the faulkner focus." it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect -- theyre all elect because they cant be sworn in because they havent chosen a speaker -- those 20 like jim jordan ...

jeffries. >> my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] >> john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. >> sandra: congressman elect donalds ...

byron tell us a moment ago, congressman donalds say he believes therehe ballot, byron donalds and voted for himself. well see what happens and will cover it. >> john: nothing will happen today, i dont think, so whatever negotiations occur after the house adjourns for the day. meantime, new at 2:00 and breaking right now, the man accused in the murders of four idaho students on the way to idaho where he faces four counts of first-degree murder. >> sandra: the 28-year-old man tells his d...

>> our job is not to coronate the biggest fund raiser or rubber stamp the status quo or keep on going along to get along. its to use our votes. to elect a speaker who will enable us to get our country back on track. >> neil: when we eventually decide on that person. im neil cavuto. this is "your world." the showdown to decide who will become the need leader goes into a sixth vote that for the republican leader right now, kevin mccarthy, its the same old story. a political grounds hog d...

tell it yourself. im michael smerconish. the crisis manager wrote a whole book called "truth to tell on how to handle a public crisis." davis advice the exact opposite of the approach of the biden white house to date around the discovery of the classified documents in its possession. they didnt tell it early. they waited nearly two months. they didnt tell it all, in fact, a statement released on monday, and the presidents words on tuesday, were almost dishonest by omission. and as for ...

the gavel, the house taking a break until 8:00 p.m. after kevin mccarthy lost his six the vote for speaker, republicans backing him saying enough with the nonsense, it is time to move forward so they can go after joe biden. >> they have gotten together and decided that they can only blackmail the republican conference in effect they are blackmailing the american people. its because of their headlines about the chaos, this and that, yesterday our colleagues on the other side of the guy ...