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we ll get to that, but the big story this morning. oh, yeah. what happened on the football field last night. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing on the football field. just 24 years old now in the hospital in critical condition. get you updates on that, of course. also, house republican leader kevin mccarthy s bid to be speaker plagued with uncertainty still this morning. the concessions he has made may not be enough to win him the support he needs to become speaker. if you can believe it. kaitlan? yeah. once the new congress is sworn in, the republican majority in the house is promising a wave of investigations. partisan gridlock, could stall president biden s agenda. big questions about what that will look like as well. uh-huh. our big story this morning, we re going to start with buffalo bills player damar hamlin. hospitalized in critical condition after collapsing and suffering cardiac arrest on the field monday nigh ....
Could. look around. you could tell. 24, 25-year-old dudes did not have it in them. they just saw the worst thing that could possibly happen. you ask them top go out and do the same thing that dude was doing when it happened? wasn t going to happen. you rarely see, especially athletes, big dudes crying on the field, embracing and hugging each other. you knew something was awful and different, agency they say. yeah. you don t see like, when does the wall street journal have this above the fold? right? like a financial paper. you see them in agony for their teammate not knowing the answers. coy wire, played for the bills, our colleague, said last in our, this, because the nfl cancelled game, signaled what he calls a paradigm shift in the league. what do you think? i don t know about that. the reason i say that is, if hamlin had been paralyzed, this game goes on. like, if he leaves the stadium ....
Whether or not these two teams it play the game scheduled on sunday. okay. maybe get out here and play tomorrow. i don t know about you. if my co-worker has something like that happen in front of me, dead, i m not coming out to play. not dead at this point. well, yeah, not dead. but should be up to the player. that s the thing. it is up to the players. if they decide ain t going to be no game can t go on the street and throw people on buffalo bills suits and get them out here. they don t want to play it s not a game and i hope the union, everybody else, you have power to decide if this show goes on. so good to you have this morning. we can consider, this is a sort of as we say in television or television, there s a separate-screen day. two huge things going on. got what happened with the nfl last night and of course this chaotic change, changing of the guard in washington, d.c. that ....
Wide receiver teig higgins. hamlin got up and moments later collapsed on his back. within seconds the bills medical staff was treating him. less than five minutes later an ambulance was brought on to the field. bills say hamlin as you have beenered cardiac arrest and his heartbeat was restored on the field. players on both teams overcome with emotion. consoling each other and praying for hamlin. at 9:18, the game was temporarily suspended with the teams going back to their locker rooms to gather themselves. at 9:25, the ambulance left the stadium taking hamlin to the university of cincinnati medical center for further testing and treatment. at 10:01 p.m., just over an hour after hamlin s medical emergency, the nfl announced the game was postponed. so joining us now, cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. good morning, doctor. what s your reaction to this? and the possibility, we don t ....
And play. exactly what happened. to be fair to the nfl. it s easy to point to the cruelty of the show must go on that show never stopped. we watched people paralyzed. get them off the field and go. my colleague talked about being in college. the guy paralyzed at practice. moved down to the next field and kept going. this game doesn t stop, because if you stop for something catastrophic you possibly wouldn t be able to play football. stopping all the time. i saw dudes warming up, announced five minutes, appalled by it brutut then realized that just what they do. we re going? five minutes back out there because they never stop for anything and glad when coaches got to midfield seemed clear looked at sidelines and said, there ain t about to be a game. whether we want a game or not these dudes can t play and fearful they would feel pressure to go out there. if they wanted to play, it wouldn t be for me to judge they ....