yesterday. capitol hill buzzing over accusations that might have motivated him. we should point out they are at this point only acquisitions. ma manu raju joins us. why he dropped out rumors about an affair. what do you know? >> reporter: yeah, that rumor about the affair has been circulating for sometime but ever since in that 24-hour period of mr. mccarthy dropping out of the speaker's race, people speculated as to the reason why he did. the reason why mr. mccarthy said is because he said he's a political liability and didn't want to put his conference through a tough vote to get him elected as speaker but others speculated to reasons as to why and one was an alleged affair between mr. mccarthy and the congresswoman from north carolina. both have strongly denied that there was anything there and i want to make very clear to our viewers, there is no evidence