welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the first sitting of the new us house of representatives has been full of drama. three attempts to elect republican kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house have failed. he hasn t been able to secure enough support from his own party a group of right wing republicans have refused to back him, and the california congressman has refused to drop out of the race. it s the first time in 1000 years that a speaker hasn t been elected in the opening round of voting. 0ur correspondent in washington, will grant, explains the significance of the stalemate. of this is not the way that kevin mccarthy or the republicans wanted the first day in congress is a majority to go. not by a long way. by the third round of voting, as many as 20 republican colleagues did not vote for him, denying him the chance of taking speaker of the house. why does any of this matter? first and foremost because of that role is particularly important in
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s great to have you with us. the first sitting of the new us house of representatives has been full of drama. as speaker of the house have failed. he hasn t been able to secure enough support from his own party. a group of right wing republicans have refused to back him, and the california congressman has refused to drop out of the race. it s the first time in a hundred years that a speaker hasn t been elected in the opening round of voting. our correspondent in washington, will grant, explains the significance of the impasse. this is not the way that kevin mccarthy or the republican leadership wanted their first day as the majority in congress to go not by a long way. with each round, it seemed to be getting gradually worse for him and by the third round of voting, as many as 20 republican colleagues did not vote for him, denying him the chance of taking speaker of the house. why does any of this matter? fir
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america the first sitting of the new us house of representatives has been full of drama. three attempts to elect republican kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house have failed. he hasn t been able to secure enough support from his own party. a group of right wing republicans have refused to back him, and the california congressman has refused to drop out of the race. it s the first time in 100 years that a speaker hasn t been elected in the opening round of voting. here s our north america correspondent peter bowes. the heart of us government deadlocked because its members can t agree on who will be the next speaker. the house of representatives is meeting for the first time at the start of the first time at the start of the new congress with the republicans in charge. pursuant to law and republicans in charge. pursuant to law and precedent, republicans in charge. pursuant to law and precedent, the - republicans in charge. pursuant to law a
against parliament in just a few hours. and in california, authorities have ordered evacuations as wildfires tear across the state, already struggling with power outages and droughts. life from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church. thank you for joining us. cormack we begin with new details of the ice search of donald trump s mar-a-lago research. we know from court filings and that now famous picture that agents recovered classified and top-secret document. here s what the washington post is reporting. we learned that when the fbi conducted a search on august 8th, obviously, there are two court documents describing a lot of classified material that was taken. we are told that one of the things found in the course of that search was a document that described a foreign government military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities. obviously, that was a cause for some concern, although there is a lot of material in this trench of stuff that they search
for the first time in more than 100 years in more than a century an official in the united states has been barred from holding office and barred under the constitution s ban for insurrections. the founder of the cowboys for trump, roy griffin to be removed from his position as county commission, he s been convicted of participating in the january 6th riot. the court concluded that january 6th, 2021, mr. griffin became disqualified under section 3 of the 14th amendment from serving. accord together the department of justice, griffin was there on the capitol steps, well within the restricted area on january 6th when he made this video. the people have shown that they ve had enough. the people are ready for fair and legal elections, or this is what you re going to get. you re going to get more of it. this is what you re going to get and you re going to get more of it. this is, though, a history making decision by this judge. the last time a public official was removed ba