their worst some confusion about whether or not hank johnson out of georgia would show up. would have dropped the threshold for republicans to 217, put them in a little less hot fire but let's go to lisa mcclain. she is nominating mike johnson for speaker. >> on november 5th, the american people gave us a great opportunity to get america back on the right track. they gave us an opportunity to get back to normal and to get back to the real issues the country faces now. people want the opportunity to take care of their families. they want to provide for their children and give them a prosperous future. ladies and gentlemen, we have the opportunity today to do just that. we have an opportunity to take our country back. with speaker mike johnson, senate majority leader john soon and donald trump in charge. [applause] we have the opportunity to put america first again. [applause] we have an opportunity to do something about crime. we have an opportunity to do something about the border and we have an opportunity to take care of our veterans. we and every single member in this ch

joining us now is hank johnson, democratic congressman of georgia.ouse judiciary committee. congressman a lot of politics and congress stuff to talk to you about, but let's start with jimmy carter. his funeral procession moving through your shared home state of georgia as we speak. let's talk about jimmy carter. we talked about specific life presidency and post presidency. one we haven't talked a lot about his record of diversifying the judicial bench. it's a underrated part of his legacy. >> yeah, it is. you know, when president carter came into office in 1976, across the nation's history up to that time only eight women and 31 people of color had been appointed to serve in the federal courts of this country. and in four short years with 262 overall appointments to the federal bench, president carter diversified the bench by appointing 40 women and 57 people of color to the bench, including ruth bader ginsburg who ascended to the supreme court. and also, gosh, another justice stephen breyer was one of president carter's appointments. he made it to t

. >> i also spoke to congressman hank johnson, a democrat from georgia. he said he had not known about the tweet but he said in general what a lot of republicans are doing is whitewashing january 6th by only focusing on those who were not violent, only focusing on the grandmothers and people walking around aimlessly. that's what you see from mike collins' tweet. it is a selective telling of what happened on january 6th that leaves out references -- again, when i pushed him, he said yeah, there was violence and those people should be punished but when you read the tweet, he doesn't tog about that. you have to pull that out of them. the republicans done want to talk about the violence. they want january 6th to look like an injustice for those who entered the capitol and maybe did nothing else. >> not only is the whitewashing predictable, i literally predicted it. here's me four years ago. >> i want people out there to remember how they feel as they watch the images live. there will be an attempt by the people who were a part of this effort, president trump,

but hank johnson of georgia, a democrat missed the call.e 434 members present and available to vote. a majority is 218. and we will show the tally as it goes. so you can all follow it on screen as well. we will be carrying all of this live. garrett haake, if you want to chime in while we wait for the roll to be called. >> reporter: yeah, we got a little bit of news in the last few minutes about the direction this vote may be going and why. we learned from victoria sparks, the republican congresswoman from indiana, who had been a question mark, she will vote for speaker johnson to remain speaker johnson, posting favorably about him on x, confirming to our colleague she would be a yes. good news for johnson there. bad from the other end of the aisle. a republican from tennessee saying he thinks this will go multiple bouts. he is a question mark vote. last name starts with a b. he could ensure that quickly by voting for someone other than mike johnson to be speaker. and we learned a little bit, as i think we are about to get underway, feel fre

hank lot, to han and food. m sports mathias extra them. alright, that is all useful for now. melissa laura, thanks very much indeed. now the us house of representatives has just rejected. might johnson's been to be speaker and the 1st ballot? is it despite the presence elect donald trump, by king mike johnson, in this case, right? the island bishop and joins us live from capitol hill and i was was always going to be a close vote. how does the house members cost that balance? well suddenly mike johnson was seeing in the last couple of others that he thought he was going to win, that he had the boats. and of course, he had the backing from donald trump, even just in the last few of us on social media said that he back to 100 percent. but there was always going to be difficulties. at least one republican thomas massey from kentucky, said that he was looking at someone else for speaker 3 representatives in the and voted for someone else. and that was essentially enough to be real. but johnson's bit to become speaker, also in 3 other republicans, did not vote. it meant that he won overall, but not the majority of those who cast their boat. it looks as if the highest is now going to go to a