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difficult. it can be short term uncomfortable. but when you move to the correct path, all of a sudden, things ease up and you can start having success. the direction here in my opinion is to someone like a byron donalds, a man who is living the american dream, and is the example and the mentor for millions who need hope. here is a man who that has worked his way, has worked his way up. he is not a novice. he has the experience, he has the chops to be the speaker. he is a man, he has a lovely family, and they are politically engaged, they know what s going on. he has worked in florida politics, he s worked in the legislature, he has respect, he has the quiet confidence that a leader needs. i look around this body today, and i know it s hard for you to believe, i know it s hard for me to believe sometimes, when i m here, and i have the great honor and privilege of serving with you, but you represent the cross-section of america, the great american experiment. the experien ....
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 ....
Kevin mccarthy for speaker. that s not on the agenda. but they were looking at jim jordan and they have donald trump out there, they have byron donalds, and i mean, you know, andy biggs, they floated a bunch of names. they re not trying to elect, at this point they re not trying to elect one of their own, they know that one of their own can t win, what they re trying to do, again, as we talked about the last three days and more, extract concessions for mccarthy, if they can defend, or they feel they can defend their base, and look, this is what we got from mccarthy, and go from there. they aren t really trying to elect anybody. they are just trying to stop mccarthy and use it as leverage. i mean it is interesting, kevin hearn, you know, it is someone we know inside the building but he is probably not well known to the national audience. kevin hearn just voted for mccarthy, just for the record. eugene, kevin mccarthy has given everything away it seems but his ....
The red wave they wanted didn t happen, and opening day of the congress, a speaker a majority of them wanted also didn t happen. so what comes next? i will tell you right now. our job is to tell you what s happening. mccarthy just plowed forward for a second ballot. and lost that in a humiliation that only grew over the course of this afternoon as it became quite clear vote after vote that the fringe plan by the maga or hard liner gop to stop mccarthy, figure out the rest later, that type of plan was working. a few more republicans joined the anti-mccarthy caucus, reinforcing what could be choppy waters for any republican with this narrow of a republican majority. now, mccarthy made many concessions to trump, to the hardliners. he minimized an insurrection he once claimed to aborrow. ....
James. me personally i ve never gotten calls about that. yeah, neither me. so, there s a lot of politics here that mccarthy is just not that skilled, ari. i mean, i can t tell you the republicans that said, james, i wish we had nancy pelosi. i guess you do wish you had a nancy pelosi but you don t have one. you have a kevin mccarthy and you re going to find out how bad nancy pelosi was, congressional democrats. hmm. so walk us through how this works. because it s so interesting that you were ahead of it, as we noted, and so folks are talking about it. and then at a certain point they start floating it publicly because eventually they re hoping to actually get the water warm enough to bring someone in. some of these folks really do want to stop mccarthy. explain how that works. what are they up to? the whole house vote on a speaker. if mitch mcconnell, republican caucus elects him so there are 49 members, he could win 30-19. but the speaker is elected by ....