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House speaker Kevin Mccarthy fighting to stay in power. Florida republican congressman matt gaetz pushing to oust him after less than a year in charge. Hello, im john roberts, welcome to you on this historic tuesday. A lot going on behind us. Im Aishah Hasnie in for sandra smith. Matt gaetz filed the motion to vacate the chair, could force a new vote as early as 1 30 today for House Speaker if mccarthys allies are not able to save him. John the florida congressman says the recent spending battle and ongoing aid to ukraine says he is not representing republican interest in the house. And if he ...

This is cnns special live coverage of an historic vote on capitol hill. Im jake tapper. This has not happened in more than 100 years. But facing a revolt from a small but powerful group of republican hardliners, mccarthy says he will bring up a motion to vacate in the first series of votes today that is just minutes away. I truly believe, though, the institution of the house, at the end of the day if you throw a speaker out that has 99 of their conference, that kept government open and paid the troops, i think were in a really bad place for how were going to run congress. Speaker mccarthy says...

There's of course the 371 conspiracy to interfere with government functions. there's also the other what's commonly referred to as witness intimidation, but is also a statute that can be used to talk about interference with government functioning. and then there's this sort of mysterious reference to 18 u.s. code 241, a statute that is frequently used in the civil rights world for indictments. here's what i suspect that means about where jack smith is headed. if in fact he's going to use that, this is a statute that we would often put in play when a bad actor was trying to prevent someone from...

Government functioning. these are huge concessions. he's also promised members votes on a couple of pieces of legislation a specific border policy plan as well as legislation that would limit how many terms in congress members can serve. that is a huge concession, jake, and certainly something that could weaken the future speaker if he can finally clinch the votes. >> all right, lauren, thanks so much. let's talk about this all with my august panel continuing strong on day four of -- >> speak for yourself. >> you look strong anyway. so he just promised progress. that could be one vote. >> yeah...

People. there are so much that we could get done. i do want to commend senator mcconnell because that wasn't an easy vote with some in his party. but it was the right vote for kentucky. and i think he voted for it. representative john yarmouth voted for it and i'm grateful for both of them because this is a project that multiple presidents have promised, that has been up in washington for a long time. what it is going to mean to the northern kentucky, cincinnati community and all of kentucky and ohio and all of the country is pretty special and it is going to continue this economic growth, job...