Here is how it all went down. The yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The office of Speaker Of The House of the United StatesHouse Of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. And i just want you all to be clear. This was a catastrophe of Kevin Mccarthys own making. It was Kevin Mccarthy and no one else who after saying this after the January 6th Insurrection the president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by president trump. Accept his share of responsibility. Got on a plane, flew to florida, and crawled on his knees to maralago to kiss trumps ring and sell his soul to the maga king. He did that. All in pursuit of the precious, the speakers gavel. Which he held for just nine chaotic, pointless months, in which he routinely lied on tv about who was creating the chaos, blaming democrats instead of his own fringe. Made the occasional deal with democrats and President Biden only to routinely break them. While allowing trump and putins little helpers in his party like Marjorie Taylor greene and Lauren Boebert and paul gosar and jim jordan to run wild, wasting your Taxpayer Dollars pursuing hunter biden and investigating gas stoves and drag shows. While surrendering his own dignity and the dignity of the house by letting this Junior Birdman walk him like a dog. Kevin mccarthy is the speaker of the House Of Representatives, and he has failed to take a stand where it matters. So if he wont, i will. Lets get our act together. Lets get on with it. Lets vacate the chair, and lets get a better speaker. Now, that florida man, matt gaetz, has Outtrumped Trump himself, making good on his threat to call for a vote vacating the Speakers Office as punishment for kevins disobedience and Making History by Dethroning Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor greenes handpicked speaker. Talk about the student, a trash talking, nonlegislative, grifting Tv Politician trumping the teacher. And in the process, matt gaetz has successfully ignited a war between the maga wing and the ultra maga wing. Theres a second group, small group, honestly, theyre willing to plunge this body into chaos and this country into uncertainty for reasons that only they really understand. Mr. Speaker, my friend from oklahoma says that my colleagues and i who dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. He has kept his word. I think we should keep him as speaker. Its hard to make the argument that oversight is the reason to continue when it looks like failure theater. This republican majority has exceeded all expectations. If this House Of Representatives has exceeded all expectations, then we definitely need higher expectations. And yes, to be clear, the Kevin Mccarthy matt gaetz story and the trump story on which we have a lot to get to tonight, are the same story. Because every member of the Republican Party who wants to be anything in the Republican Party has survived, even thrived, by becoming donald trump. Theyre all either versions of him, like matt gaetz is, or completely subservient to him, like Kevin Mccarthy, and ready to reap the consequences when he turns on them. There is nothing left, nothing left, in republicanism but that. Just those two choices. Become the menace or serve the menace. Joining me now is nbc news Correspondent Ali Vitali on capitol hill. Ali, i know its been a long and weird day. But lets get some updates here. So Kevin Mccarthy is no longer the speaker. Does he have any plans to try to become speaker again . And run again . Reporter no, and thats new. No, thats new in just the last few minutes from my sources and some of my colleagues sources up here that mccarthy leaving the meeting where you see a steady trickle of republican lawmakers also leaving now, that he told his colleagues in a very short huddle, he would not put himself up for speaker again. We now expect to hear from the former Speaker Mccarthy, talking to reporters in just the next half hour or so. I imagine well hear more of his mind set of what led him to this point. But i have to tell you, most of the republicans that i have seen leaving this conference have been dejected, many of them have said this is an embarrassing moment for their party. And the reality is, there is a lot of frustration for republicans with the handful of their colleagues who voted to oust the speaker. The first time in history that that has happened. Now, we have a speaker pro tem, someone temporarily in that role. One moment, joy. Sir, what was it like to hear Speaker Mccarthy say he wouldnt run again . Were live right now . I was surprised a little bit. I just thought i figured he would try to stick it out again, but i think he made the wise decision. Thank you so much. Congressman bircht, one of those republicans who voted to oust mccarthy and said some of the conversations he had with mccarthy in the last 24 hours or so made him vote against. He could have had his mind changed, he said, but the way mccarthy spoke to him made it so he felt he couldnt support him again for speaker. This is a conference thats now grappling with what a postmccarthy reality looks like. Im not sure they know where theyre going next. Maybe mccarthy will shed some light on that. I think theres just really mass confusion here as republicans adjourn for the night and wait to see what happens next. Wow, what a day. What a time to be alive. Ali vitali, great reporting today. Thank you very much. Lets bring in democratic congressman Eric Swalwell of california. As well as former rnc chair Michael Steele. He is an msnbc political analyst. Thank you both for being here. Wow, wow, and wow. Im going to go to you first, Congressman Swalwell, just for your reaction. The democrats sat a little smirkally watching all of this happen because this wasnt yalls problem, this was the other sides problem. What did you make of what happened today and the fact Kevin Mccarthy will not subject himself to another 15round vote to try to become speaker again . Its tragic for america, joy. Over the past three years, i have witnessed in the Congress Just too many first times, and theyre bad first times. You know, first insurrection, first time a speaker degraded himself so long to get the job, and then first time that a speaker is removed. And its bad for the country because the failures, these are the republicans that they keep putting upon the country, are like crabs in a bucket. And theyre trying to pull the rest of the country into the chaos that they crave. And i just keep telling myself during these different moments from the insurrection to today, this is not happening. This is not americas exceptionalism. You see now that the republicans have the majority, they have the majority, but theyre an opposition party. Theyre opposed to themselves. The takeaway for me is, america is a corvette. You can never give these guys the keys to the corvette. Its too good of a country to let them drive it or ever be in charge. Let me ask you this, because there was some reporting that leader hakeem jeffries, who could have saved Kevin Mccarthy if he had decided to whip in favor of retaining him, in the end, decided, were not going to help this guy. He went on tv and lied and said it was democrats who nearly shut the country down and were responsible for the near shutdown. Even though it was democrats who actually saved the country from a shutdown. He wasnt honest about that. There was a sense at least from reporting that people were angry that rather than be thankful that democrats were trying to work with him, he stabbed them in the back, so he lost all the good will. Was there a point at which Kevin Mccarthy could have made a different decision and maybe been saved and maybe had some democrats vote to retain him . Yes. Kevin mccarthy had always put his own job first and the country last. And then you saw that with the debt ceiling, where the democrats delivered the majority of the votes. You saw that with keeping the government open this weekend where we delivered the majority of the votes. And when i went into the caucus meeting where we had to sort it out, what i saw was a number of members who said you cant trust this guy. You cant trust him for one second to keep his word. And so why dont we use, as Speaker Pelosi would use, our diversity is our strength, but our unity is our power. Why dont we use our unity as power and leverage. So the next funding bill, we dont have to negotiate with the crazies. Our unity can leverage the public sentiment to get us to the right outcome. And that right outcome, i think youre going to continue to see it led by democrats. You know, Michael Steele, i have had a lot of these conversations lately where people go, why cant democrats get things done . Then i reexplain to them again that republicans control the United StatesHouse Of Representatives. And this is what that control looks like. Speaker pelosi had literally the same margin in terms of the numbers of members that she had. Nothing like this ever happened to her. And yet, the last three republican speakers, Kevin Mccarthy now joins paul ryan and john boehner in being incapable of controlling a caucus with this narrow of a margin and in their case, they had wider margins and they both had to leave in humiliation and quit because they cant control their own caucus. This man lost three additional people who voted to oust him, Kevin Mccarthy, who initially voted for him as speaker. He got eight votes against him. So he actually surpassed the number of people who voted against him last time. He lost support as speaker. They cant do anything, nor can they even keep the government open without firing their speaker. How does one even argue that it is worth giving republicans any power at all when this is the mess they have created of the last nine months . So, let me correct the record. Its not three speakers of the house, its four. You forgot newt gingrich, the first one they ran out. So we have now watched republican majorities eviscerate four speakers of the house. Which speaks to their inability to govern, because they have no governing philosophy. And because of the allowance of factions within their own caucus to dominate the narrative and the debate. I agree with my friend Congressman Swalwell about the backdrop of all of this. What i am also aware of is that the country voted for this. We cant not take that and set it aside. The country had a choice to hand this majority, knowing all of the crazy, bat you know what crazy that was fomenting inside the party, they handed them the majority. Because they were outdone purportedly or supposedly with what the democrats were going to do, oh, i guess, roads and bridges and things like that mattered less. And they voted for this. Here is the concern. Dont walk away from this, joy, thinking they wont hand it back to them in 2024. And this is going to be the challenge and the opportunity for democrats over the next 13 months. Is to make the case of what this Leadership Choice is, right, because you have folks right now, joy, just the last point, you have folks right now blaming democrats for ousting Kevin Mccarthy. And im like, wait a minute. Did i miss the 15 votes it took Kevin Mccarthy to convince his republicans who had the majority to make him speaker . Did i miss what he did with that speakership when he said to matt gaetz, oh, we will no longer require 20 votes in the house to vacate the chair. Well give the power to one member only. I dont remember the democrats calling for the vacating of the chair. So you know, weve got to get the narratives correct here, and the democrats need to get in front of this because youre getting blamed right now for ousting the Speaker Of The House. Its hilarious that first of all Kevin Mccarthy did not earn the support of democrats. Theres no reason for democrats to support him. Hes stabbing them in the back. I will correct one record. I rarely get a chance to correct my friend Michael Steele on this. The American People didnt hand the house back to republicans. They used an illegal map in florida to force their way back in with an illegal map, a gerrymandering in florida, a stupid gerrymandering in new york that was their own of their own making, and the fact you had illegal maps in places like tennessee that are fighting to the last dog died to try im just saying, they gerrymandered their way back in. I got you. I got you. I understand that. But you go and explain that to voters out in the midwest. You go and explain that to some of the congressmens voters in his district. That aint how people see it. What they saw was, i went to the polls and i voted for x. And as an outcome, the republicans have power. And so democrats need i get what you said there, and i agree with you. I know how that played out. But the politics is a different conversation. And the political conversation is, the country handed republicans the power. The democrats now have to make the political counterargument as to why they cannot, a, be trusted with the power, and b they need to take that power away from them in 2024. You can talk about bad elections elsewhere around the country and you can talk about what republicans may or may not have done at a polling place. The reality of it is you have to put it in a succinct enough sound bite that people understand it. Im going to give the congressman the last word and let him do that and make that case because indeed, the nrcc is attempting to blame democrats for this. I watched the vote go down. Clearly, matt gaetz pulled the trigger. He took out the gun and it was his decision. And eight republicans went along with it. There was no reason for democrats to help. This is how it went down. Your thoughts. Michael is right, we need people to know, republicans are at war with themselves and were working for working people. And so were the party that gets things done. Choose competence over chaos, choose community over corruption. Choose keeping your kids safe in their school and building a bridge in your community and making sure that women have reproductive rights over, as i said, a party with no philosophy, no principles that just craves the chaos. We have to make that clear. We have about 13 months to do it. And im convinced we have a case to make. I mean, its either checks, bridges, and wifi or foolishness. Its either women control their own boies or these jokers control your body. Do you want these people controlling your body . Because this is how that looks. They cant even control congress. There you go. Congressman Eric Swalwell, this was quite a day, and Michael Steele, thank you, my friend. Up next on the reidout, breaking news from Donald Trumps civil fraud trial. The judge has said enough is enough. Placing a gag order on trump after he posted a vicious online attack against the judges law clerk. The reidout continues after this. Ues after this Liberty Mutual customized my Car Insurance and i saved hundreds. With the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. Oh. [dog barks] no its just a bunny only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Mccarthy was not the only republican facing the back of the hand today. Donald trump earned a smack down from the judge during the second day of his new york civil fraud trial, with the judge doing something no other judge has been willing to do so far. And that is to slap a gag order on trump. It came after trump attacked judge Arthur Engorons law clerk in social media while sitting in the courtroom. That included trump blasting the clerks personal social media account information to his millions of followers. Following a nearly hourlong delay, an angry judge engoron made clear that personal attacks on his staff were unacceptab and would not be tolerated. He added that any further violation of this order would lead to swift and meaningful sanctions and order trump to delete the post, which he did. Only after which the trial resumed. Of course, trumps dangerous actions should come as no surprise. He has been relentlessly attacking the judge and new York Attorney general Letitia James as well as anyone else related to this legal cases frk but in this case, were seeing the twice impeached, four times indicted former president who is facing a potentially devastating l