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hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsui...

good morning. im erica hill. >> im jim sciutto. is there movement on capitol hill? we are watching closely this morning as standoff over who will be the next house speaker has now entered its third day. california republican kevin mccarthy failed to secure the votes needed after a total now of six rounds of voting, but, after furious negotiations last night, lots of coffee, new major concessions to his hard line opponents, mccarthys speaker bid could be showing new signs of life. hard ...

state blinken back in israel to deliver president bidens message for humanitarian pause to benjamin netanyahu. >> we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. that was an important area of discussion today with israeli leaders. how, when, and where these can be implemented ultimately we believe this can be a critical mechanism for protecting civilians while enabling israel to achieve its objectives of defeating hamas. >> israels prime minister is s...

On the influential rules committee. that committee sets the agenda for which bills come to the floor, how those bills are structured on the floor, how many votes they take, what the amendment process looks like. its a very important functioning committee. its usually just an extension of the speakers office, most of the time his key allies sitting on that committee. another important concession. ill tell you this morning, one moderate i spoke to had a lot of concerns about how far mccarthy is go...

Whats going to happen. there are members of the house intelligence committee i spoke with, too, yesterday, who recognize that their role in oversight, that their role as an equal chamber of the congress with the senate was really compromised by congressman nunes. and so i think theyre eager to step forward and demonstrate they can be responsible. im encouraged by how the senate intelligence committee is progressing in a bipartisan way. frankly, many of my colleagues have already called for a new...

All cancelled. but on friday, we all got together -- i should say thursday we all got together and we all agreed unanimously that we want this investigation to continue, we would like to get back to the oversight that our -- that is so for our committee to do. and we want democrats and republicans alike getting an explanation for whats happened. and then hearing from our chairman why he chose to do what he did, those things will, i think, put us on track to be a functioning committee again and h...

Chose to do what he did, those things will, i think, put us on track to be a functioning committee again and hopefully get the investigation restarted. >> congressman himes, thank you. a new white house ethics filing that ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner are still benefiting from their business empire while holding positions at the white house. ugh! heartburn!

Ambassador about sanctions. turned out he did and that led to him being fired. >> can they get their act together on the house side? youve heard the ranking democrat, adam schiff say he thinks the chairman should at least recuse himself from this entire investigation. >> right. so once you have the top democrats saying that the chairman should reduce himself and he doesnt, i dont understand where a functioning committee comes after that. it doesnt make sense. sure, they could try to get their ac...

Frankly, the degree of information and quality that comes into the white house so the president can make better decisions that are informed by the intelligence that are at his dispos disposal. >> can i just -- tomorrow is one month. and its a mistake to take a snapshot and say the problem is that were going to be in this position in the summer. its the slow but they will be filled. june 1 youll have the secretaries, undersecretaries, a functioning committee and those problems i think will be beh...