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Thats what u. S. Bank is for. Huge relief. Yeah. Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friend and colleague ana cabrera for a second hour of Special Coverage. Were following two major stories this morning. And right now the fate of the House Of Representatives is up for grabs with another vote to decide the next speaker of the house. Beginning any moment now, we have live pictures of the house floor we want to show you, where jim jordan is trying to convince a group of holdouts to cast their vote for him after his attempts to secure the speakers...

the biden administration wants to see made permanent. so, i think this is part of building that for them. and the questions are whether or not they actually get there, but also how the execution of it goes. so, that's how you saw president biden say he's tapping gene sperling, this long-time democratic economic aide to oversee the spending here. he was talking about how when he oversaw the stimulus bill in 2009 amid the great recession, how crucial it was to just be on the phone, have these conversations at a granular level to make sure there is no fraud or abuse or mis-spending. i t...

>> reporter: what senator kennedy is talking about, the idea of impeaching a president, this is something that's somewhat related to the hunter biden stuff, but not exactly related to what happened in court today, what he's talking about there, is speaker kevin mccarthy facing pressure from some members in his ultra right wing to impeach president joe biden over a myriad number of issues. mccarthy, instead, falling short of that saying that they could open an impeachment inquiry that would allow republicans to use what mccarthy called the apex of their majority power, their political power to ...

Too many in the republican party have made peace with the notion that they are going to be a minority party that exercises majority power. they are okay, in essence, with an american electoral apartheid. that's where one of our two great parties now finds itself. >> you know, i guess i'm old enough to have been a republican at a time when young republicans, it was before our politics went on all four years. after working on a campaign, republicans would go overseas and help young democracies have free and fair elections, register people to vote. it is time for a domestic democracy project that...

I would not expect to see this house, this dominated by republicans vote in favor of what really are just fairness measures in connection with our voting system. i think the republican party -- too many in the republican party have made peace with the notion they will be a minority party that has majority power. they are okay with fewer votes as long as they hold on to the power they have. >> let me ask you about democracy. these are the -- this is the first state of the union since the january 6th hearings. it will again have a fence for security reasons, understandably, around the capitol, w...