elected. a speaker has not been elected. yes, the circus is still in town and the group of 20 serial insurrectionists opposing kevin mccarthy, they are right about one thing, this man has no business being speaker of the house. if he can t navigate his way around the basic vote to get the job he s not remotely capable of leading especially a radical caucus filled with this iteration of republicans. and we do begin tonight with the never ending republican fight over the next hour the never ending republican fight for speaker. over the next hour kevin mccarthy should be wise to learn this one lesson because he s going to be facing this hell over the next hour. any tolerance of insurrection breeds more. in the next hour as i mention the house will return to try to get done what they could not do earlier on this ground-hog day of voting. but beyond showing in realtime kevin s inability to do the job this dumpster fire is making it clear the republicans keeping republicans par
Pick up coverage next in the Situation Room. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitz her in washington along with erin burnett in new york. Were following major Breaking News on the vote a short while ago to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house of representatives, the first in the history of the u. S. Congress. An incredible day. Mccarthys ouster led by Congressman Matt Gaetz, joined by other gop hard liners. It was sealed by democrats who could have stepped up to save mccarthy, and they refused to do it. Extremely historic and dramatic, indeed. House business, for all practical purposes, is paralyzed as the chamber faces the very difficult and divisive challenge of choosing a new speaker of the house. Were standing by for a meeting of House Republicans this hour. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room. We begin on capitol hill where our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju, is covering it all, speaking to everyone
important state. that s how you know you re not selling the right thing is when you can t win by playing fairly, that you have to shape the rules in a way that will help you win, that will that will probably guarantee your win. what republicans are doing now around the country and kwor georgia i think is ground zero, right? but it s not just georgia. it s happening in a number of states. georgia, arizona. if you lost in ruby red states or states that were previously red, that was your fault. that s because you re selling the wrong thing. that s because you re not doing it right. you re right. if we go back to that, it is going back to jim crow. it is jim crow part 2. jim crow 2. what it shows more than anything, maybe this is the reason that republicans are so hell bent on talking about dr. seuss and mr. potato head, because one hand is doing one thing and the other hand is doing the thing that is going to get them guarantee that they get elected. and that is going
being the party of no. but when it came to down to how washington actually works, they were uninterested in that, and a lot of them lost re-election until trump came in and gave them all a license. now it s not about governing but being professional trolls. the fact kevin mccarthy has been so desperate to be speaker for years and years and everyone knows that, that s a position of weakness from the very beginning. when has being so desperate led to someone being an effective leader? so the fact he s already started off in a position of political weakness told me over a year ago that he would never be speaker. i ve been saying this for a year and a half. and the people who are out here trolling him, the matt gaetz and boberts and these freedom caucus guys now empowered, they re really been running the show for years. kevin mccarthy has no spine. he hasn t stood up to anyone
blocking president biden s agenda, looks like he s getting exactly what he wants. as you look to what the majority leader has in mind for june, it s clear the era of bipartisanship is over. the era of bipartisanship is over. when was the era of bipartisanship under the majority leader, mcconnell? i must have missed it. you know what maya anglo said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. and mitch mcconnell and the gop have shown us who they are and what they re all about, stalling the biden agenda at every turn, from voting rights to the policing bill. the party of no. the senate report on the insurrection revealing just how bad the security failures were. failures that put the lives of so many brave officers at risk. up next, i m going to speak with