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hi, everyone we start with the fireworks in washington, d.c., today. emanating from the committee set up by the housegop. it took republicans 15 votes now in the days and months that fod followed, the house gop has done nothing except projecting the rest of their colleagues and us to the grievance of lies and conspiracies that animate life over on earth 2 where they live. today a hearing by the so-called weaponization commit presumably focused on censorship on social media and a lawsuit brought by the then-republican attorney general of missouri, he has to be an attorney from missour...

good morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. is there movement on capitol hill? we are watching closely this morning as standoff over who will be the next house speaker has now entered its third day. california republican kevin mccarthy failed to secure the votes needed after a total now of six rounds of voting, but, after furious negotiations last night, lots of coffee, new major concessions to his hard line opponents, mccarthy's speaker bid could be showing new signs of life. hard line members who is held out against his speakership are still meeting behind closed doors. >> th...

state blinken back in israel to deliver president biden's message for humanitarian pause to benjamin netanyahu. >> we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. that was an important area of discussion today with israeli leaders. how, when, and where these can be implemented ultimately we believe this can be a critical mechanism for protecting civilians while enabling israel to achieve its objectives of defeating hamas. >> israel's prime minister is still unwilling to give an inch without the release of hostages, instead pressing forward with a ma...

On the influential rules committee. that committee sets the agenda for which bills come to the floor, how those bills are structured on the floor, how many votes they take, what the amendment process looks like. it's a very important functioning committee. it's usually just an extension of the speaker's office, most of the time his key allies sitting on that committee. another important concession. i'll tell you this morning, one moderate i spoke to had a lot of concerns about how far mccarthy is going here and the influence it would have on their ability to govern going forward. jim and erica...

What's going to happen. there are members of the house intelligence committee i spoke with, too, yesterday, who recognize that their role in oversight, that their role as an equal chamber of the congress with the senate was really compromised by congressman nunes. and so i think they're eager to step forward and demonstrate they can be responsible. i'm encouraged by how the senate intelligence committee is progressing in a bipartisan way. frankly, many of my colleagues have already called for a newly created independent commission or a special committee. that would take us off track for six mo...