thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
the red wave they wanted didn t happen, and opening day of the congress, a speaker a majority of them wanted also didn t happen. so what comes next? i will tell you right now. our job is to tell you what s happening. mccarthy just plowed forward for a second ballot. and lost that in a humiliation that only grew over the course of this afternoon as it became quite clear vote after vote that the fringe plan by the maga or hard liner gop to stop mccarthy, figure out the rest later, that type of plan was working. a few more republicans joined the anti-mccarthy caucus, reinforcing what could be choppy waters for any republican with this narrow of a republican majority. now, mccarthy made many concessions to trump, to the hardliners. he minimized an insurrection he once claimed to aborrow.