Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Cote and yes, we did make it to Friday and we have all

earned the weekend ahead because man, it has been a week, hasn't it? I mean, we remember

what we've gone through in the past just a few days. There was the manufacturer shutdown

drama over the weekend when Congress decided to just kick the can down the road instead

of maybe finishing the task at hand. Then on Monday, day one of Donald Trump's quarter

of a billion dollar fraud trial in New York City. Yeah, I said billion with a B Tuesday. Kevin

McCarthy got voted out of the job, but he risked everything to get.

The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is here

by declared vacant. That was just Tuesday, by the way, because by Wednesday, it was back

to New York where Donald Trump defied the judge's gag order, standing in front of cameras

and blasting the New York attorney general and the very judge who will decide his fate

in this case after, of course, a limited gag order was already issued. But you have last

night, it was the former president throwing his support behind Trump back alive, Jim

Jordan, for the Speaker of the House. That's the second in line to the presidency, remember?

That after a floating video, he would actually take the job himself.

I never wanted to do this job, but someone has to, who can bring the team together and

can go communicate to the country. That's why I'm running.

And there's you reporting tonight from CNN's Caitlin Collins about how and why Trump picked

Jordan to endorse. Apparently, it's because he wanted someone who would be loyal to him

in the job and actually never seriously intended to be Speaker himself. But wait, there's

more. TGIF did not give you a reprieve from the whiplash, everyone. First, there were

multiple sources saying that the former Speaker was going to step down before the end of his

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