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This is cnns special live coverage of an historic vote on capitol hill. Im jake tapper. This has not happened in more than 100 years. But facing a revolt from a small but powerful group of republican hardliners, mccarthy says he will bring up a motion to vacate in the first series of votes today that is just minutes away. I truly believe, though, the institution of the house, at the end of the day if you throw a speaker out that has 99 of their conference, that kept government open and paid the ...

Unpredictability either around the moments that matter hey, happen in the courtroom. All right well hows that for the end of a friday. Thanks. See you guys for being here. Thanks to all of you for joining us as well. Im kasie hunt Cnn News Central, strike right now. Breaking overnight intrigue in trump legal world to trump lawyer turned political witnesses in the maralago Classified Documents Case. Is no long youre representing him. Why this information is, quote disquieting to donald trump. Nex...

welcome to the source source. im jake tapper in tel aviv in for kaitlan collins. tonight israel is further attempting to defend the massive strike on the largest refugee camp in gaza, densely populated with slups. israel saying it was targeting a top hamas commander who was quote pivotal to the planning and execution of the october 7th terrorist attack on israel, someone, quote, actively coordinating and leading combat activities against israeli forces. israel says dozens of other hama...

were following developments of a major escalation in the israel-hamas war. israeli soldiers are now inside gaza, and israels military is signaling a heavier assault to come. this is all happening as the situation for civilians stuck inside gaza is growing more and more desperate by the hour. well go live to the region for the very latest. plus, mike pence is now out of the presidential race. why donald trump may have been his undoing all along. i will be joined by congresswoman and for...

Function. maintaining the currency a federal function. there are functions like education, but we need to start with block grants and start giving the states more and more authority and start reducing the all the that we spend in that area. its not something that just as the default would be cattle strosk, so would taking all this money away from the states on day one. its something thats going to take a period of time. i think paul ryans budget proposal when the commercials were out when he was...

Internal issues. but john in talking to a number of these senior republicans over the last several days, they do feel confident that they can ultimately get there even though they can only limit this factions to just four republicans nor to pass a bill long straight party lines. mccarthy im told, wants this on the floor in may. the hope is they can get this out of the house and that will strengthen their negotiating position with the white house, even though as you said no chance of passing the ...

The first now is being credited with getting this across the finish line. >> i dont think trump is ultimately the factor that kevin mccarthy elected speaker. but there is an issue about the party brandon who represents the party. looks like a gerry springer show on the house floor at 1:30 a.m. in the morning until mccarty finally got the final votes to become speaker. i think the issue for republicans and mccarthy in particular yes its good to open its good to have transparency. and to have the ...

Ballot, and they didnt, by the, way they just voted present, they are election deniers who supported donald trumps big baseless lie about a stolen election. five of the six of them continue to object and vote against the certification of the votes on january six, 2021, even after the mob ransacked the capital and endangered their lives and their coworkers lives. in creating a stalemate for the speakership, gaetz and his colleagues took the opportunity, once again, to stall government and wreak h...

0 [applause] >> buck has voted for mccarthy as expected. >> gaetz? >> president. >> present. [applause] >> gosar. >> [inaudible] [applause] >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. graves of louisiana? >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. >> you can see, -- matt gaetz voting present. that means two of the six republican holdouts voted present. we had goals are coming through for mccarthy again. this is not enough for kevin mccarthy. this is as close as you can be with being there without actually being there. three prese...

Were first elected to the house and the tea party wave in 2010 and you were a leader of the caucus and ran in 2013, 2015 you voted for boehner as speaker and you had reservations. tell us how you see this playing out. >> yeah, i dont think i ran for speaker in 2013 but all the rest of that is right. >> okay. >> i didnt vote for boehner. >> your name was floated i should say. >> thats very flattering. how does it shake out? honestly, if its not kevin i dont know who it is. thats the conversation ...