the initiative to remove makatiu was made by republican mat gaetz, dissatisfied with the fact that hislluded with the democrats during the discussion of the federal budget. it will be better for the country if we have a more competent speaker than kevin mccarthy, he can't keep his word, he made an agreement in january broke it, we have 33 trillion dollars in debt, around the world we are seeing de-dollarization that will destroy americans. kevin mccarthy is a hypocrite who only collects money and exchanges it for his own benefit. gets accused makatia of allegedly entering into a secret deal with president biden on the issue of continuing to provide financial assistance to ukraine. makarte himself did not deny that there were negotiations. look, i know we live in a system that's designed to compromise, but look, we're in the majority and we don't give up, do i work with opponents, yes, and that's what i did. the work of legislators without a speaker, it remains virtually frozen; now they have to nominate candidates, then hold a vote. makati himself was elected only in january of this ye

the man who single handedly led this charge binto the abyss, mat gaetz.he only unifying message amongst most republicans this morning is that he should be held accountable. but what does that look like? caught up in all of this, you remember. you don't need reminding, taxpayer dollars and any concept of a functioning legislative branch. manu raju is back at it on the hill for us this morning. what's next? what's happening? >> reporter: yeah, right now behind the scenes, there's a debate about how they can pick up the pieces here after yesterday's tumultuous and historic move to oust the speaker of the house for the first time in american history, but now the republicans are trying to figure out who will lead them out of the abyss and who can help pick up the pieces and how they can actually legislate in this bitterly divided house republican conference in this narrowly divided house. all hunl quge questions at the moment. right now in talking to medical examiner, there's palpable tension, particularly among allies which most of the republican conference,

maga lawmaker mat gaetz calling for the motion to remove mccarthy. furious debate breaking out before that vote among republicans. >> chaos is speaker mccarthy. chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. we are on a path to financial ruin. it is astonishing to hear any colleague give speaker mccarthy credit. >> this republican majority has exceeded all expectations. the republicans strongly support speaker mccarthy and are proud he is our speaker. >> oh, look at that. oh, look, give me money. i filed the motion to vacate. using official actions -- official actions to raise money, it's disgusting. >> house democrats under leader hakeem jeffries had the power to save mccarthy's speakership, but everything single democrat who was present voted against him, dooming mccarthy to his future. ousted speaker mccarthy had already prepared and turned over a list of possible temporary successors should he be voted out. republican congressman patrick mchenry of north carolina will assume the role of speaker tempore effective immediately. some lawmaker

initiator republican mat gaetz spoke.er speaker of making an agreement with the white house personally. introduce a bill on assistance to ukraine. makard himself denied everything, but this did not save him. it is noteworthy that the european media were the first to sound the alarm, because it is now the european union that will have to finance the west’s war with russia until the very last ukrainian. the german handelsblad writes that the republican struggle for power jeopardizes the future of ukraine, which critically depends on us assistance, especially moreover, according to john kirby, without the consent of congress, washington will only be able to help kiev for one month, maximum two. the british guardian calls makartse's resignation a historical precedent, which happened at the very moment when an urgent, critical need arose to strengthen support for the armed forces of ukraine. economists write that it will be very difficult for supporters of ukraine in congress to push through finances. for kiev during the elect

republicans want to get rid of him and the quote was nobody likes matt gaetz and you have publicly said gaetz is matbecause you refuse to intervene in the ethics review, is that accurate? >> speaker mccarthy: it is accurate. the ethics happened in the last session. it would be illegal -- >> steve: what did he want you to do? >> speaker mccarthy: apparently e-mails back and forth blaming me for ethics complaint registered to him when i wasn't in power. i don't know what he thinks i should do. >> steve: this is all about that? >> speaker mccarthy: legally i can't do anything and won't do anything. animosity stems long ago. watch the race for speaker. that is okay if matt dislikes me. my fo us can, secure the border. we could have had a big win, we couldn't get republicans there. we did keep it open, make sure ukraine was not in it. we have hr-2 and senate republicans, number of senate republicans texting me, thanking me, pulling rabbit out of the hat after the debt ceiling. now we're going to get together, republicans in the house and senate on clear plan for border security and work together, only wa

republican mat gaetz filed a petition to remove his party member from office. he accused macarthy of making a deal with the democrats. usa to avoid a shutdown, then joe biden said he expects that congress will still allocate additional funds to support kiev, in a separate vote, while the states still have several billion dollars for kiev. john kirby, at his last meeting with reporters at the white house, said that weapons were being supplied to ukraine. as president biden has made clear, we cannot, under any circumstances, allow america's support for ukraine to be halted. we have enough financial authority to continue to meet ukraine's battlefield needs. them in the meantime, a batch of american tanks was delivered to klaipeda, which the united states transferred to ukraine. their arrival 2 weeks ago, joe biden during a meeting in the white house with zelensky. 21 people died and 18 were injured in a traffic accident in the suburbs of venice. as our diplomatic mission in milan reported, there is no information about russians among the passengers. a bus with peo