Capital. Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Ca
your last thoughts. yeah. i think it gives the vague term several thousand. we know what the number is. we know it won t be something that americans are satisfied with. the next question is where are the rest of the americans? that question leads to, how are you gonna get those to the airport? that s not where he wants to go right now. harris: all right. we ll move on. chaos reigning in kabul. we know, the biden administration cannot seem to get its messaging straight on potential new terror threats coming out of afghanistan. they close for that. veteran homeowners, if you re ever going to use your va home loan benefit to get cash, now is the time. because interest rates are near record lows and home values are at record highs. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow 100% of your home s values and you can take out $ 50,000 or more. pay down high rate credit cards, improve your home, or just give your family the security of having cash in the bank.
let s practice strategic patience as a country and as a policy. can you broad didn t to the overall region? sure. egypt was kind of among the first in the wave of this arab spring. uh-huh. seen a lot of turmoil and instability in other countries including bahrain where you served for the u.s. government as ambassador. are you seeing a seismic shift in that region? right. and sort of the impact of governments, like the uae in saudi arabia, actually really being influencing what might happen next? oh, absolutely. a very good question. what we re seeing in egypt is emblematic of what s going on in the region. two points to make. number one, look what s happening around the arab world now while egypt is burning. you ve got syria, chaos reigning. a total vacuum in libya. nobody running that place. iran, a continuous and very real threat to the reachened and-of-and to the united states and then you have, you mentioned uae, qatar, bahrain, saudi