. >> federal prosecutors say dennis hastert was paying hush money to a man who was 14 years old whenernment says hastert that these two other high school wrestlers and the team manager while he was the coach. >> former republican speaker of the house dennis hastert was essentially wiped from the history books after pleading guilty in a hush money case that revealed he had severely sexually abused teenagers as a high school wrestling coach. when you hear the words republican speakers of the house, republicans really do not want you to think about dennis hastert. and today, house republicans are trying to determine who their next speaker will be. and you would think that one of the most basic criteria for republicans here would be that none of their candidates should be accused of any involvement in any wrestling related sexual misconduct scandals. right? >> a high-profile republican congressman is under fire tonight. a new lawsuit alleging that when jim jordan worked as a wrestling coach at ohio state university, he turned a blind eye to sexual misconduct by a team doctor. >> a colleg

to this day dennis hastert remains the longest serving leader in the republican congress. the good graces of his party except that several years after his -- he was convicted of fines due to child sex abuse. and there was john boehner, who faced the threat of a motion to vacate from mark meadows. that never came to a vote but the effort alone led boehner to resign in the middle of his term. he served for four years as speaker. and then there was paul ryan. his time as speaker coincided with donald trump's election, and a new era of politics and the republican party, for that matter. ryan reportedly told friends that serving as speaker during the trump administration was, quote, agonizing. trump went after ryan with public insults in addition to trump's near daily controversies that ryan had to govern through. about 30 months into the job, paul ryan opted to vacate the speaker's chair and also to retire from public office entirely. and now, as of today, kevin mccarthy, the parties for the speaker this century, served for 269 days before being ousted by members of his own pa

>> i remember unfortunately i'm old enough to remember when denny hastert emerged out of nowhere to become speaker in 1998 -- after the 1998 elections. and what we saw is we thought we had an heir apparent in bob livingston who would have been a fantastic speaker and that fell apart and it went to denny has confederate. tha hastert. that was not on anyone eye radar screen. whether talking about working with democrats or increasing powers, i don't think that anybody would be better suited than patrick mchenry for this role, but you still have to get to 218 votes. and if that doesn't happen, we'll have chaos to where republicans aren't going to know what they want to do and dark horses will emerge and they won't just emerge for speaker. if this happens, we could very well be looking at a new majority leader, new majority whip. and it comes down to in the sound that you played earlier, there is no trust with house republicans within their own conference. and if that continues, we'll be in the stalemate i think for a while and that is where names on nobody's radar screen might be able to emerg

dennis hastert spent time in prison after admitting saul abuse. and the hyper partisan newt gingrich resigned before his own caucus staged a rebellion. perhaps the issue isn't actually democrats, but the insatiable thirst for rebellion within the republican conference. joining me now, congressman ted lu, congressman, thank you for joining us tonight. >> speaker mccarthy and his allies have been saying that democrats share blame for his downfall. what is your reaction? >> let me say, i've known kevin mccarthy a long time. ever since we were both serving in the california state legislature. he was the son of a firefighters and he rose to occupy the highest legislative office in the land. i wish him well. the notion that somehow democrats would bail out the republicans in this civil war makes no sense. if you remember in january, we voted 15 rounds and every democrat voted for hakeem jeffries because we believe hakeem jeffries should be speaker and would be a better speaker, and our actions were consistent with having hakeem jeffries be speaker. >> f

. >> known for dennis hastert, it holds that the speaker cannot build a bill to the floor if the majority of the majority party doesn't support it. president biden says he fully expects them to approve new aid for ukraine but he's not saying if he received any specific assurances. >>> congress took future money for ukraine from the stopgap spending bill that passed over the weekend. president biden says that u.s. support for kyiv is essential. >> we cannot under any circumstances allow america's support for ukraine to be inter interrupted. too many children, too many lives are at stake. i fully expect the speaker and majority of the republicans in congress to keep their commitment to secure the passionage of the support needed to help ukraine as it defends itself against russian aggression and brutality. >> european union foreign ministers are also showing their support for ukraine. nada bashir is here in london with details. >> first time that the foreign affairs council was held outside of eu member states. and of course hugely step so far as symbolism. and they say this is the eu's fut

so land insider information on land, the there was a story in the book about dennis hastert the formerker of the house who bought up a whole bunch of land before ath big highway was going through. he headed your markina budget or something so this goes back forever. so make was that corrupt compared to just being a member of congress who owns a condo right? >> ride this story t are talking about more recent past to do with the squad and this is in the latte liberal chapter. basically what happened is during covid there was pressure from progressive to put a moratorium on eviction. during covid you shouldn't come but they said you shouldn't be allowed to evict somebody from their home which i can understand that. what's interesting is these progressives said that we have to reimburse landowners. we have to pay landlords. if the renters can't pay we have to pay the landlord and again is a center-right columnist that makes perfect sense to me but it seems a little out of step with what you think of as the left and it's interesting because it leads to members of the squad were landlords th

dennis hastert did not think that he would become speaker after congressman livingston had to step aside. so that is a bit of history. but as we go forward here, there is a bit of time. clearly what happened last night that was a bit surprising was to have a time-out, if you will, and let the steam sort of escape from the capitol but during that time -- >> very good way to put it. >> -- people stepping into the vacuum here and the letter jim jordan sent to his member, he is getting right to it. so i think the questions are here ukraine absolutely will be one of the issues. but also procedurally. there are some moderates who want the rules to change and the motion to vacate to change. obviously some hard liners do not want that to change, but that is of course one person can throw out the speakership. so i think in addition to issue, there will be some procedural questions as well. but this is also a popularity contest in some respects. so how these members have treated their rank and file is very, very key. tom emmer, that is why i think he and patrick mchenry and steve scalise. first, s

and you're exactly right to draw the thread from dennis hastert to this.audible] spoken out about what jim jordan must have known about those incidents, it's day for the republican party. and you know, what i think about in this moment i'm not the rabid matt gaetz and jim jordan's who are making this work, but similar to the kevin mccarthy moment, where he gave everything away to the 15 rebels, i think about the 200 that went along with it. 200 in january that said to kevin, okay, we'll let you bring the place down, go ahead. the people who are gonna elevate jim jordan tomorrow, i think about the 200 -- america doesn't really know their name, that are supposed to be the main street once. and now or finding out is that jim jordan it's gonna be a trojan horse candidate for the right. >> i'm with michael fanone, and i am with david jolly on this. this is a dark day, and it is a sad moment for our country that this is where we are. david jolly, thank you. and that is tonight's read out. inside with jen psaki starts now. inside with jen psaki starts now.

. >> dennis hastert, the man you saw just there was this century's very first republican speaker of the house. he held the speaker's gavel from 1999 to 2007. he got the job after the hasty departure of his predecessor, newt gingrich. that's because when republicans lost five seats in the house during the 1998 elections, they turned on gingrich. and his long time ally congressman bob livingston threatened today challenge him for the speakership. to this day david hastert remains the longest serving speaker in the conference. and he might have retired but after several years hastert was convicted of crimes related to child sex abuse. then there was john boehner who as speaker in 2015 faced the threat of a motion to vacate from congressman mark meadows. that motion never came to a vote, but the effort alone led boehner to resign in the middle of his term. served for four years as speaker. and then there was paul ryan. his time as speaker coincided with donald trump's election and a new era of politic and the republican party, for that matter. ryan reportedly told friends that serving as sp

that was the case with dennis hastert. we had joe martin, same rayburn. joe martin is from massachusetts. he went back to being the minority leader. same rayburn was the speaker and the minority leader and came back for a longer period as speaker. i don't think that will happen with kevin mccarthy. i will say there's a lot of sympathy for him on his side of the aisle. >> neil: thanks, chad. so you know the two prominent names, steve scalise and jim jordan. there's others, one in particular that could join that race and make it interesting. we'll talk to him. he's next. everyone feel at home this season. that's why with hisense appliances, you can get a lot more, without spending a lot more. because the only thing better than scoring quality appliances is the quality time that follows. shop hisense appliances now, exclusively at lowe's. i was stuck. unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. i needed more from my antidepressant. vraylar helped give it a lift. adding vraylar to an antidepressant... is clinically proven to help relieve overall depression

the longest serving republican speaker was dennis hastert, who was later revealed to have been a pedophile went to prison after leaving the speakership. kevin mccarthy's failure as speaker is in its way the most spectacular since his speakership ended so dramatically with the first ever vote to vacate the speakership. the two leading announced candidates for republican speaker now are congressman jim jordan and congressman steve scalise. we already know that no matter who the next republican speaker is, that speaker will not be able to govern within his own party and will fail, as every republican speaker has, in trying to govern the united states of america. joining us now, democratic congressman maxwell frost of florida. he is a member of the house oversight committee. congressman frost, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i was thinking that when i was in my twenties, as you are now, and when i started working in the united states senate in my 40s, i had never seen a republican speaker of the house. i had never seen the house of representatives controlled by republicans. and whe

so this goes back there was a story about in the book about dennis hastert, former speaker of the house, who bought up a whole bunch land before a big highway going through. he actually had an earmark and a budget or something and so this this goes back forever. right. and that is just that's what that's so corrupt. yeah. compared to just being a member of congress who owns buildings where apartments are rented condos. right. so this story that you're talking about more is more recent and it has do with the squad. and this is in the latin chapter and. so basically what happened is covid, there pressure from progressives to put a moratorium, evictions, you know, during covid shouldn't they said you shouldn't be allowed to evict somebody from their home which, you know i can understand that. but what's interesting is that these progressives then went out of the way to say, but we have to reimburse landlords, we have to pay landlords. if the renters can't pay, we have to pay the landlords that i'll get i as a kind of a center right you know carlos that makes perfect to me but it seems a li

y wi george bush was president under denny hastert, the former speaker. republicans had a fiveenny vote majority in the house and they were able to get thingsrd done and pass them because they were disciplined. the modern republican party has got to get its discipline back. otherwise, the democrats will own. get the >> the republicans. and they did this week. demo, it's verynowline bac salvageable. i think that is a very keysalva but the speed at which they act now is going to matter. i always say h the sp democrats circle the wagons. yeah, republicans create firing squads. >> my wrong. yeah, i think you're exactly right. and of course, some of the issues that were complained about are importan t. like single subject legislation is very important. regulaare compr order, as you pd out, is very, very important. but i also think that there's so much focus has been on this, the rule the rule about vacating the chair. you know, the other thing ofat is still exists is the idea of the hastert rule, where you don't move things on the house floor unless a majority

and how denny hastert received the speakership was on a saturday morning when there was nobody left,ebody that the country did not know. so i think last opportunity for republicans, understand there's two audiences here, is to find somebody that the country doesn't know and has not yet fully vetted, and to find somebody that does not have enemies aboutin the second audience which is your own republican caucus. that might be a near member, it might be a member -- newer member, it might be a member that simply has not created that angry profile yet. the question becomes do they hold together their alliance. the reason i say this is the final chapter for republicans is i actually think they might find that unknown person now by next wednesday. if they don't, it's the final chapter because that's it. now we're in a coalition governing with democrats. >> so i meant to google all the people on this let. let me put it back up. the people considering running. and the breaking news out of the middle east happened, and didn't get to google any of them. who are these people, david jolly? >> rig