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Everything is on videotape, both inside and outside the capital. so, there is no question what was said and who is that it, what the result was. its just gonna be a question of whether donald trump will be fortunate enough to have one supporter on his jury. if he does, the walk. >> based on some of the defenses that youve heard the former president float around, do you think any of them, so far, could stick? and if you were on the former presidents legal team, which we know youre not, how would ...

20 republicans have defected from the kevin mccarthy camp. the question remains, is there still a path for mccarthy to become speaker? straight to capitol hill and cnns jessica dean. is there a path? >> reporter: thats the big question. is there a path? you talk to kevin mccarthy publicly he says im not dropping out. privately we know there are talks this may not work for kevin mccarthy. its a simple math game right now. i was in that chamber when they did that three failed votes. no speaker as ...

Candidates throwing their hat into the ring. >> stay there. i want to bring in cnns one and only senior data reporter and talk about the numbers complicating mccarthys life beyond the raw head count. why does mccarthy have so little room for error? >> look historically at potential first time speakers, anderson. he has 222 republican seats, right? if you look at the last few speakers, people who went on to be speaker they had a lot more seats in their majority. they had a lot more room for error...

Mccarthy from the grass roots that might push the republicans iffy on him over the edge. this is like we like kevin mccarthy but we dont love him. this is not what you would expect for the groundswell of support. one nugget that ill point out. remember, kevin mccarthy faced this before. back in late 2015 there was this idea that kevin mccarthy would succeed john boehner in the house and just couldnt do it. couldnt generate enough support among the republican caucus so the good news for him hes m...

Senate and house, cut it out of medicare, which cuts life-saving drugs. >> youre playing a math game there, senator. >> he didnt pay his taxes. >> they didnt cut anything on medicare. its cost savings having to do with the prescription drug benefit. i understand you want to call it something else. >> if you cut spending in medicare, its going to impanel the ability spoke mob to provide think. >> i will remember that when you argue that. >> thats whats going to happen. >> i will remember this whe...

Majority of the house votes to elect them. so this could happen. however, really what this shows is a couple of things, right. it shows trump is still the majority player in the republican party and still has a dominating influence over what the republican party does. and theres a couple of ways this could play out. it could play out where trump endorses mccarthy who has long wanted the speakers gavel, and that would offer, of course, mccarthy the boost for the speakers gavel. or trump could rem...

Them are not, whats your best advice to parents to keep kids safe. what can they control? >> i think that testing as heidi mentioned is an underutilized tool in the pandemic in the united states. it is one of the layers schools can add, parents could add, access to rapid tests that are now available, you can find them in cvs. get them in many of the pharmacies around you. so you want to layer that with the math game. still talk to your school about ventilation. thats an important part of keeping...

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Primaries, it is not winner take all with delegates. so on it does become a math game in terms of collecting delegates. >> of course. >> you do have to hit a certain percentage though. and that next debate in iowa is in january. why not is going to host it along with the "des moines register." and now at this point you have not qualified under the dncs tougher criteria. if you dont make it in, this will be the first time you wont have been on the debate stage, what will that mean for your campai...

One. >> yeah. stephanie, when i end up looking at that sen tryst or pragmatic democratic lane, right now it is actually not as full as the liberal progressive one and it allows someone like her or beto orourke, if he decides to get in, to be able to almost hug that lane. then it becomes a math game when you look at the iowa caucuses where 25%, 28% ends up maybe getting you a win. that means you could end up having the liberal progressive vote being divided by, you know, bernie sanders and elizab...