Challenge Mccarthy News Today

imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. im alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of workin...

coffin, in very yasmin vossoughian. it is now speaker kevin mccarthy, and we have learned he is at work to get -- today after an ugly week for where publicans and with a 15 ballot victory for mccarthy after last minute efforts that couldnt vince republicans to finally given. and even more chaotic than the beginning of this battle, even one near physical altercation between two members on the floor, now the question is how much did mccarthy give up to represent matt gates, and the other...

anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i dont think if you watch me that i get excited -- do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day its better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. >> if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? >> you get to 218. >> this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after...

good evening. we begin with the very real possibility house republicans tomorrow will do something that has not been done for a hundred years. its possible perhaps even likely that when the chambers very first piece of business comes up choosing the next speaker, something necessary for anything else to proceed, they will fail to get the required number of votes to make former minority leader kevin mccarthy nancy pelosis successor as speaker. and beyond the drama of the history that co...

what are you seeing? >> yeah alex, after a click glance at these two statements, we are learning the big big news here is that there have been more classified documents uncovered from his wilmington home. this is coming from the statements according to richards of, or the special counsel to the president, as well as bob bauer, president bidens personal attorney. basically, bob bauer is saying that as a personal attorney, he went to the penn biden center, and he and his team, as well as...

alphabetical order, they didnt even get past the cs, sealing a round one loss in a matter of minutes. mccarthy failing to whittle down the small but significant group of republican outliars all dead set on voting against him. the damage a failed first vote like this will inflict on the speakership position from the get go even if he does win, if its a mess for republicans, a mess for mccarthy and it is shaping up to be a long day ahead for the brand-new 118th congress. he reminded repo...

This moment was coming for him to walk in today and not have a better plan as well. a failure of leadership its about leadership. and if we cant lead then then we have a problem. you have to remember. weve been talking about this for 89 days now. i mean, in the business world you no longer be leading your company if it took you 89 days to talk about the obvious. that last part right there. it just reminds you that at any moment, it just takes one and you just need a few friends to bring a vote t...

Received overnight, a violent threat, in light of these comments from mccarthy. >> getting your -- kicked off of the committees legal problems. the american people are going to be happy into ecu hand for the neck until death,, that, legally. through trial. have a nice swing bleep. >> so look, this is obviously scary for these members of congress, and it is all part of the republican agenda to investigate and conduct oversight and to retaliate by what they thought was unfair from democrats. that ...

Is the dangerous nature of this subcommittee. the weaponization of the federal government, and we are going to, and this is a subcommittee within the committee that i hope we will be sitting on again, which is judiciary, that we are going to be investigating the investigators, trying to learn what is going on and investigations, investigations that may include some of my colleagues. some on the committee, this is a very dangerous blurring of the responsibilities. so this is really about unseriou...

Chaos that these members are going to be hearing from enough sort of high-profile conservatives that they will be sort of scared and get in line. i mean i think that that is going to be wishful thinking. these guys are really dug in right now. the question in my mind is more along the lines of how long can mccarthy actually continue to stay in this race? >> yeah, certainly a humiliating scene for him yesterday. if not mccarthy, who? >> the million dollar question. i mean, look, steve scalise his...