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thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
i was at the game this, year and you have a tough one and have a lot of florida high school players and of course the governor here is an iowa state gratz. i didn t hear anything about iowa state. mice you in iowa have this machine shed restaurant. my wife and i, we do it cracker barrel with the kids. and i was like, we ve got to try machines. my son is five years old, he s like a sports nut. he got a checkered board model after the iowa state football field. so he now loves iowa state, because he has that checkerboard. and then he also, he also has gotten to see the iowa stadium. if we were actually watching the iowa game, with some supporters over the weekend. and so they got him a nice i wish, or he s got iowa socks and everything. i was on the campaign trail
and of course the governor here is an iowa state grad. i didn t say anything cross about iowa state. you all in iowa have this machine shed restaurant. my wife and i, we do crackle barrel with the kids. we were going to do that. i said, we ve got to try machine shed. my son is a sports nut. we got a checker board modelled after the iowa state football field. so, he now loves iowa state because he has that checker board. and then he also he also has gotten to see the iowa stadium. and we were at we were watching the iowa game with supporters over the weekend. so, they got him a nice iowa shirt. he s got iowa socks and everything. i i was on the campaign trail with him the morning of the iowa/michigan big ten game. i didn t rehearse this with him. he came up on the stage with me, and i said, hey, buddy. who s going to win iowa versus michigan. i m moving the mic down to him. i m thinking to myself, if this kid says michigan, he s going to get booed in iowa at 5 years