Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Cotes here with Abby Philip. And this is a special edition

of CNN tonight, Kevin McCarthy, ousted as House Speaker. And he says he's not going

to even run again. Now the house will be in recess for a week. They're not even planning

to return until next Tuesday night for a conference meeting before then a potential

vote later that week on electing a new speaker. So that means the house will be closed

for business. They don't even have a speaker. Meanwhile McCarthy, who lost that speaker

shipgabble today, well, he said this tonight.

These are the same people that never voted for me. They thought it was big. They went

to present after we went through 15 rounds. I'm not quite sure those individuals are

looking to be productive. Well, this is certainly a moment in American history and a string

of a number of moments like we've never seen anything like this before. Never before

has a speaker lost the job in a vote on the house floor. And it happened with the pounding

of a gavel. The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives

is hereby declared vacant. But it started pretty much from the moment, Kevin McCarthy

was elected speaker in the early morning hours of January 7th after 15 rounds of voting.

I know I was up for it all. Hardliners and his own party have been threatening to dump

him ever since. And the GOP Civil War, well, it all came to quite the head today.

We need a speaker who will fight for something, anything besides just staying or becoming

speaker.

They're willing to catch to plunge this body into chaos in this country and uncertainty

for reasons that only they really understand. I certainly don't. Chaos is Speaker McCarthy.

Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. Now it's time for us to stand together

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