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King voting present. nancy pelosi is forced to defend one of her high profile freshman members. >> i do not believe she understood the full weight of the words. >> a reference to minnesota democrat congresswoman ilhan omar who suggested those who support israel have a dual loyalty, that being opposed to prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the occupation is not the same as being anti-semitic. the anti-semitic resolution noted the house of representatives condemns anti-semitic acts that are contradictory to the values of the people that defined the people of the united states. after an interna...

Represe -- house of representatives condemned antimuslim sentiment, racism, hate in general. that resolution came in response to a congresswoman omar's comments that were considered antisemetic. whether or not to include her name in a resolution sparked by her remarks is deeply divided democrats. with me now is casey hunt. the panel is still here. so casey, all right, there is a couple things here, we have michael steel here, who is intrigued about why, what the republican plan was on this and if there was one or if it was implemented too late to have this sort of chunk of no votes, but a majo...

Campaign said explicitly said i will not support her, 11 of those were incumbents, the rest are freshmen and that means that if all of them held true to their word she would get 208 votes, 10 short of what she needs to become speaker. she would still have the majority, only 201 republicans so she would still have the majority but if they voted for somebody else she would come up short of the 218. now, theoretically they could all vote present rather than voting for somebody and that would lower the number of votes that she would need in that case lower it down to about 205 i think or 206 but s...

Winner. since then two have been declared winner. that's 226 democrats who would say i'm not going to vote for nancy pelosi. that drops her below the 218 she would need to be elected speaker of the house. >> dana: even if you wanted to abstain and have your first vote not be for pelosi, pelosi does not have enough votes to get to 218 if all those people were to abstain? >> if they all abstain that's called voting present. for every two people who say i'm voting present, that reduces the number of votes needed to get elected from 218 to like 217 and so forth. theoretically that could reduce the...

Was nearly raped by brett kavanaugh when they were in high school. of course, kavanaugh has furiously denied all those allegations and denials seem to have convinced republicans and a democratic senator, joe manchin. today this nomination will be confirmed by a 50-48 vote. one senator, lisa murkowski, is opposed, voting present because one other senator couldn't return for the vote. it is a two vote margin, one of the closest in history. >> manu raju tracking this on capitol hill. thank you. when judge kavanaugh is confirmed later today, it will be a big moment for president trump. after les...