Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. We are tracking this breaking news. As Republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century.

Republican Kevin McCarthy has begun this new Congress today with a humiliating failure. The longtime party leader in face of the House GOP lost the vote for Speaker today.

He lost 19 Republicans on that first ballot.

It's the first time any politician in any party has lost an open floor vote for Speaker since 1923.

It's rare because, of course, this is a job where the votes are typically lined up.

The person who is becoming Speaker is, above all else,

supposed to get, count, and keep votes.

Now, in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here's what it sounded like on the floor.

The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the state of New York has received 212.

The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the state of New York has received 212. The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the

state of California has received 202. No person haven't received the majority of the whole number of

votes cast by surname. A speaker has not been elected. A speaker has not been elected. And this continued to play out today, as I've said,

for the first time in a century, where instead of the typical swearing's in and the kind of

ceremonial aspect of this and a congrats to the new speaker, there is no speaker tonight.

That's not chaos for the whole country, of course, because this will get worked out one way or the other.

But it is certainly chaos for Mr. McCarthy's entire career, as well as the Republican Party,

trying to put a brave face on another setback.

The red wave they wanted didn't happen.

And the opening day of the Congress and the speaker that, to be fair, a majority of them

wanted, a majority within the party, 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

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