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Several former co-hosts and the current co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” paid tribute to the show’s founder and journalism icon Barbara Walters on Tuesday.
Co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin remembered Walters, who died last month at age 93, as the “original role model” for everyone else as she started the show when she was 68 years old.
“We have to give the woman a lot of credit, she was not just a friend to us, but she was really one of a kind and very important to the industry I think,” Behar, one of the original and co-hosts of the show, said. Behar told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Saturday that Walters had a “work ethic you couldn’t deny.”
Goldberg looked back on when she first met Walters during an interview on “The Barbara Walters Special” in 1991 and said the two really bonded over the idea that they “could have been better.”
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She added that the interview was “really an audition” for twenty years later to join “The View.”
“When I started co-hosting I was changing my questions on my cards,” Hostin said. “I was changing them and rewriting them and rewriting them not realizing that maybe that wasn’t appropriate and she came over to me, that’s a picture of it, and said, what are you doing? I said, this is not my voice, I’m rewriting my question, is that okay? She said ‘I rewrite mine’ and then she started helping me, and I thought, my goodness the generosity of that moment, I was so scared, and I was so nervous, she validated my opinion. And after that day, she would ask me during the hot topics meeting, well what do you think, Sunny? and I was like, Barbara Walters is asking me what I think? Wow.”
Lisa Ling, who co-hosted the show from 1999-2002, joined the current co-hosts and shared an anecdote from a lunch she had with Walters early in her career.
“We were sitting there and she’s looking straight at me and starting to ask me about intimate details of my personal life and I’ve been watching all these clips over the last couple of days of how she made people cry so effortlessly and so easily and I’m telling you when she started asking me about my mom I was just wailing,” Ling said. “I got myself into therapy right after that and I became diligent about going every week and it wasn’t because Barbara traumatized me it was because she started asking me questions that I didn’t really know the answers to.”
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who co-hosted “The View” from 2003 to 2013, also joined the co-hosts on Tuesday to pay tribute to Walters.
“I like to say she was contagiously compassionately curious and I love that about her. We know how well she researched and she gave her guests a chance to really’s press themselves in a safe way and we all benefited from that. So she gave me a chance, she changed my life, I mean, the ten years next to her side and with all of you at different times, so enriched my life, so I’m blessed by that. I’m able to interview and research because of her,” she said.
Hasselbeck added that she was tasked with debating her boss on different issues and emphasized that Walters had always put their relationship over the “roles” they had on “The View.”
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“I think the reason Barbara and I not only had that special relationship over ten years at “The View” but the ten years since in such an enriched way was because she put our relationship over the roles that we had. I was her TV daughter, she was my TV mom. She was my boss. I answered to her. She was my mentor. I was her mentee. And so if she didn’t choose to put our relationship and her role first we wouldn’t have that relationship now,” she continued.
Hostin said later in the show that she appreciated when Walters told the hosts to treat their guests like guests in their own homes.
“She demanded that we demand the best of us and demand respect from others. That’s what she said. You don’t let anybody talk down to you, ever,” Goldberg added.
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Nineteen House Republicans voted against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for Speaker during the first ballot on Tuesday, denying the GOP nominee the gavel and forcing members to hold another vote for the top spot.
The votes against McCarthy went to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) — who was nominated for Speaker on the floor — in addition to Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who became an ex-member on Tuesday, when the 117th Congress officially came to an end.
Biggs received 10 votes, Jordan secured 6, and Banks, Donalds and Zeldin each earned one.
McCarthy received 203 votes and the Democratic nominee, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), won 212, both short of the majority needed to win the Speakership.
Here’s who McCarthy’s GOP detractors voted for.
Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) — Biggs
Rep. Dan Bishop (N.C.) — Biggs
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) — Jordan
Rep.-elect Josh Brecheen (Okla.) — Banks
Rep. Michael Cloud (Texas) — Jordan
Rep. Eli Crane (Ariz.) — Biggs
Rep. Andrew Clyde (Ga.) — Biggs
Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) — Biggs
Rep. Bob Good (Va.) — Biggs
Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) — Biggs
Rep. Andy Harris (Md.) — Zeldin
Rep.-elect Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.) — Jordan
Rep. Mary Miller (Ill.) — Jordan
Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.) — Biggs
Rep.-elect Andy Ogles (Tenn.) — Jordan
Rep. Scott Perry (Pa.) — Biggs
Rep. Matt Rosendale (Mont.) — Biggs
Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) — Donalds
Rep.-elect Keith Self (Texas) — Jordan
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, vented about GOP “enemies” against Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House in a fiery interview on Tuesday.
“They are enemies now,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju. “They have made it clear that they prefer a Democrat agenda [over] a Republican one.”
A small but crucial group of conservative Republicans are not backing McCarthy for House Speaker, leaving who will hold the gavel in doubt.
“This handful of members is very clearly looking for notoriety over principle,” Crenshaw said. “That’s what it is, and anyone who suggests differently is in some sort of make-believe, fantasy reality.”
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Crenshaw said when you’re part of a team, “you hash this stuff out … and then you move on,” unless you’re a “narcissist.”
“If you’re a narcissist, and you believe that your opinion is so much more important than everyone else’s and you’ll keep going, and you’ll threaten to tear down the team for the benefit of the Democrats, just because of your own sense of self-importance, that’s exactly what’s happening here,” he said.
In an interview Tuesday with “Fox & Friends,” Crenshaw said the goals of the caucus not supporting McCarthy were unclear and called them fake “white knights” who are trying to get more airtime. He also called them “petty” and urged them to make their differences with McCarthy about policies, not personal vendettas.
“It makes us look foolish. If I didn’t know any better, it’s like the Democrats paid these people off,” Crenshaw said.
McCarthy failed to get enough votes in the first round on Tuesday afternoon, as too many Republicans defected for Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., or other choices to deny him he 218 he needed.
Tensions are high in the Republican conference on what was supposed to be a triumphant day as they took back the majority after four years in the wilderness.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., muttered “this is bulls—” under her breath during a House GOP Conference meeting Tuesday regarding McCarthy’s bid for speakership.
The comment, which a Boebert spokesperson told Fox News Digital was not yelled or said into a microphone, came Tuesday morning as McCarthy, R-Calif., delivered a speech aimed to unite his party ahead of the leadership vote. McCarthy faces opposition for speaker from Boebert, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and members of the House Freedom Caucus, who claim he has not proven to be worthy to be leader of the new Republican majority.
Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said the House Republican meeting was “hostile,” and that McCarthy’s attempt to persuade hard-line Republicans to vote for him fell flat.
“The meeting was very hostile and I don’t think it did anything to persuade those who are inclined to vote against Kevin McCarthy,” Good told Fox News.
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Fox News’ Patrick Hauf and Houston Keene contributed to this report.
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A group of 19 hardline House Republicans blocked GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from securing the gavel on the first vote to elect a Speaker on Tuesday, sending the House to a second ballot for the first time in a century.
The vote was 203 for McCarthy, 212 for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), 10 for Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), six for Rep Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one for Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), one for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), and one for former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.).
No members voted “present” or were absent, which would have lowered the threshold that McCarthy must meet to get majority support.
That put McCarthy below the threshold of a majority of the 218 members voting for a Speaker candidate.
A second vote for Speaker began immediately, and the House will continue through possibly multiple ballots until a Speaker is elected.
In a House GOP Conference meeting Tuesday morning, an impassioned McCarthy vowed to wage a long battle for the Speakership.
“I have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor. I don’t have a problem getting a record for most votes for Speaker, too,” McCarthy told reporters after the meeting.
McCarthy has faced weeks of opposition from hardline conservatives including Biggs, Reps. Bob Good (Va.), Matt Rosendale (Mont.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Ralph Norman (S.C.), who had been known as a “Never Kevin” group. They said McCarthy’s resistance to rules changes, involvement in primaries and leadership history — among other issues — meant they could not support him for Speaker.
Over the weekend, McCarthy offered some late concessions to those withholding support for him including allowing a move to “vacate the chair” — a move to force a vote on ousting the Speaker — with the approval of five Republican members, rather than a threshold of at least half of the House GOP Conference.
But that did little to sway his critics, as nine House Republicans — which did not include the “Never Kevin” five — signaled in a Sunday letter.
“At this stage, it cannot be a surprise that expressions of vague hopes reflected in far too many of the crucial points still under debate are insufficient,” the members said in the letter, led by House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.).
Allies of McCarthy have signaled they will not waver in their support for him, as long as he stays in the running.
The vote marks the first time since 1923 that the House Speaker election has gone to multiple ballots. That year, the election took nine ballots over three days. Before that, 13 other multiple-ballot Speaker elections occurred before the Civil War.
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Rep-elect George Santos, R-NY, dodged reporters and their questions on his way into the U.S. Capitol for the first day of the new Congress on Tuesday.
Santos is embroiled in multiple local, federal, and international investigations regarding allegations of fraud and fabricating his past. Nevertheless, he was present on the House floor Tuesday and could be seen sitting alone toward the back of the chamber busying himself on his phone.
The embattled soon-to-be lawmaker was earlier seen walking toward his office when he spotted a group of reporters loitering outside his door. He quickly brought his phone up to his face and turned back the way he came. Reporters attempted to pursue him, but lost him around a corner.
Santos has admitted to speaking falsely about both his work experience and his education during his successful campaign to flip his Long Island congressional district for Republicans in November.
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During his congressional campaign, he falsely claimed he graduated from college with degrees in finance and worked for Goldman Sachs and Citibank. Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly opened an investigation into Santos last week.
“The numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-Elect Santos are nothing short of stunning,” Donnelly said in a statement. “The residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress. No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.”
Multiple House Democrats have called on Santos to resign over the revelations, and his midterm opponent Robert Zimmerman has demanded a rematch. Some Republicans have even said Santos should “consider” resigning.
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Santos is also facing scrutiny from the FEC over his campaign spending. The federal commission discovered numerous strange $199 campaign expenses that Santos insists are an FEC database error.
Santos’ legal troubles have recently expanded beyond the borders of the U.S. Brazilian prosecutors announced plans to revive fraud charges against him on Monday. The charges related to allegations of a stolen checkbook.
Prosecutors say the case had been dead for nearly a decade due to Brazilian authorities being unable to locate Santos.
Brazilian prosecutors are reportedly working with the U.S. Justice Department to inform Santos of the charges. Santos did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.
Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
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For the first time in 100 years, the contest for Speaker was not decided on the first ballot.
Now, the chamber faces an uncertain path forward and a Congressional battle from years ago — all the way back in 1856 — lends insight into how long the tug-of-war over the Speaker’s gavel may last.
Just as Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was unable to secure the 218 votes needed to become Speaker, Rep. Nathaniel Banks was unable to round up enough support in the 1856 contest to lead the chamber. It ended up taking two months and 133 rounds of voting to determine that contest.
McCarthy faced 19 Republican detractors in the first round of voting on Tuesday, with GOP lawmakers casting votes for Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Az.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), among others.
Just as in 1856, when Banks ultimately prevailed, now the House is slated to hold votes continually until a Speaker is elected.
But that doesn’t mean the House will continue late into the night on Tuesday. It is possible the chamber will adjourn, giving lawmakers time to negotiate.
Until a Speaker is picked, business in the House can not continue. It must first choose a Speaker before voting on a House rules package.
The fight in 1856 raged on because Banks, an anti-slavery Congressman, was opposed by a number of lawmakers who wanted to expand slavery.
Banks eventually won by a vote of 103 to 100 over South Carolina Rep. William Aiken.
This time, the schism in the Republican party is due in part to a group of hardline conservatives that have sought key concessions from McCarthy and other Republican leaders. This includes a lower threshold for a “motion to vacate,” an action that allows lawmakers to remove a Speaker.
But there was a prevailing question for those opposing McCarthy in the contest: Who is the alternative to McCarthy? One lawmaker teased this week that the group had a candidate waiting in the wings, but that was met with skepticism by other Republicans.
A Speaker’s contest has only gone to a second ballot 14 times. It last happened in December 1923, when Rep. Frederick Gillett (Mass.) reached an agreement with opposing lawmakers after nine ballots.
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Apple is increasing out-of-warranty battery service fees this year.
The change is effective on March 1, according to the tech giant’s website.
“The current out-of-warranty battery service fee will apply until the end of February 2023,” Apple wrote on a page headed: “iPhone Battery Service.”
“Effective March 1, 2023, the out-of-warranty battery service fee will be increased by $20 for all iPhone models prior to iPhone 14,” it said.
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In addition, Apple fees are subject to tax and a shipping fee will be added should an iPhone need to be shipped.
Notably, Apple said that other service providers can set their own fees.
Estimates of iPhone service costs – created using the “Get an Estimate” tool – include $99 for an iPhone 14 regardless of the model, $69 for the iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone 11 and iPhone X and $49 for the iPhone 8 and older generations through the iPhone 5.
For some MacBook computers and iPads, Apple said that service fees will also increase.
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“Effective March 1, 2023, the out-of-warranty battery service fee will be increased by $30 for all MacBook Air models and by $50 for all MacBook and MacBook Pro models,” it said.
For the iPad Pro 12.9-inch, the iPad Pro 11-inch, the iPad Pro 10.5-inch, the iPad Pro 9.7-inch, the iPad mini and the iPad Air, the out-of-warranty battery service fee will be increased by $20.
There are also estimates for iPads and MacBooks in different models.
According to TechCrunch, the change is global, with increases not affecting AppleCare or AppleCare+ subscribers.
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The fate of Speaker-designate Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is hanging by a thread as a group of nearly 20 House GOP lawmakers voted against him for the top spot on the first ballot to become Speaker.
While the vote has not been closed, the results point to the level of opposition to a McCarthy Speakership within the GOP conference.
McCarthy has vowed he will fight it out on as many ballots as it takes, but his failure will lead to questions about whether Republicans need to move to a different candidate to unite their members.
Here’s a few lawmakers to keep an eye on.
If everything goes to hell for McCarthy, Scalise is viewed as the natural second option to become Speaker.
The Louisiana Republican has been in the national spotlight ever since he rose to prominence following the 2017 shooting during practice for the Congressional Baseball Game that left him severely injured. However, the incident gave him cache and a standing unlike most non-McCarthy members in the House Republican conference.
For years, Scalise has attempted to tamp down any chatter of a rivalry with McCarthy. He’s been a solid ally of McCarthy’s dating back to 2018 when then-Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) exited Congress. He has also stood shoulder to shoulder alongside him throughout the past year and in recent weeks, having vowed to support McCarthy to the end.
It’s also unclear if Scalise would get to 218 votes on the floor.
Much of the issues with McCarthy have been centered on how GOP leadership has operated in recent years — which Scalise has, of course, been a key cog in for the past decade.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a leading moderate, on Monday cast doubt over whether Scalise himself could win the Speakership.
“I don’t know,” he said, adding that Scalise and McCarthy are “very similar.”
“They’re almost, to me, they’re the same. They represent a lot of the same ideology, and they’ve built this team together,” Bacon said. “So what’s the purpose of them demanding Kevin to step down?”
On the plus side for Scalise, he has the structure to plug into the Speakership, including a whip counting effort that’s been up and running for years and a top fundraising apparatus. But getting the Speakership would be the big first step.
Jordan is widely considered the leading conservative in the House, but winning the gavel would be an incredibly high bar for him to clear for a multitude of reasons.
Memories are long on Capitol Hill, and despite Jordan’s status now as an ally of McCarthy and GOP leadership, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is still known more for being a rabble-rouser than someone who could lead the conference.
Jordan has run for the top spot before. He launched a futile bid to replace Ryan as Speaker in 2018 and, subsequently, to become minority leader once Democrats won back the House months later. But he was never considered a true contender, having lost to McCarthy 159-43 at the time.
However, he did win six votes on the first ballot — from Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Michael Cloud (R-Texas), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Keith Self (R-Texas).
Could that lead to more votes in subsequent tallies?
Consider this the break-glass-in-case-of-emergency situation for House Republicans.
McHenry, the former deputy whip to Scalise during Ryan’s tenure, has always been considered a ladder-climber during his years on Capitol Hill, having arrived as a conservative willing to create trouble and becoming a top member on the leadership team and, now, an incoming committee chairman.
However, McHenry has made it clear for months: He wants zero part of this job. Perhaps less than zero, if that’s possible.
There’s a reason why he came out in April and announced his intentions to seek the top spot on the House Financial Services Committee instead of a spot in leadership.
“I’d like the opportunity to run an agenda and I’m optimistic about the opportunities we have around innovation, capital formation and oversight that make it very interesting to be on the Financial Services Committee and to run the agenda of the committee,” McHenry told Punchbowl News in April. “Given the circumstance, I’m much more optimistic about the opportunities we have at Financial Services than the role that I could play at House Republican leadership.”
But if McCarthy goes down and the white smoke doesn’t arrive for Scalise, don’t be surprised if chatter increases for the North Carolina Republican to take the job — and if he sprints away from that talk just as fast.
Outside of those options, the question of who could win is the ultimate guessing game.
Talk of a compromise candidate, be it on an interim basis or a choice decided on by moderate members with the help of House Democrats, has largely been swatted away, especially as some centrists have grown bullish in their support for McCarthy.
Outgoing Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) was floated by Bacon, but he told reporters last month that he wouldn’t even be around the Capitol for the Speaker’s vote and would instead be on a ski trip.
Adding to the issues on a compromise candidate, Democrats have made it clear they will support Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in every vote and only Jeffries, pretty much eliminating that possibility.
There is also the oft-mentioned hypothetical that a non-House member could become Speaker. It is technically true. But most think that’s extremely unlikely to happen.
Emily Brooks contributed.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
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Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, is the GOP nominee for Speaker of the House.
But the GOP House leader’s bid for Speaker hangs in the balance as he scrambled for support to lock down the role.
Here’s a look at his more than two decades in office and how his influence has grown among the GOP.
Kevin McCarthy, a California congressman, is the House Republican nominee angling to replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House in the next congressional session.
But his bid to hold the Speaker’s gavel still hangs in the balance after several Republicans publicly opposed him, including Reps. Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz, despite his concessions to demands from far-right lawmakers.
The GOP leader needs to win 218 votes to win the Speaker’s gavel if every member of the House were to attend and cast a vote, a number that isn’t guaranteed despite Republicans controlling 222 seats.
At the end of the first vote on Tuesday, McCarthy fell short with 212 votes, losing 19 Republican votes to other nominees, including GOP Reps. Andy Biggs and Jim Jordan. Democratic nominee for Speaker Hakeem Jeffries didn’t lose a single Democratic vote in the House, getting 203 votes, but also failing to meet the 218-vote threshold to become Speaker.
A second ballot is expected after no nominees for Speaker secured enough votes Tuesday afternoon, and successive votes will take place until McCarthy or another nominee garners enough support.
The last time a speaker election has gone to multiple votes was in 1923 when a Speaker of the House was elected after nine ballots.
Just hours before the vote, McCarthy delivered an impassioned speech to his party in a last-minute attempt to secure support to cement the role.
“I earned this job. We earned this majority, and God dammit we are going to win it today,” McCarthy said to a standing ovation, Politico reported.
Throughout his more than 20-year political career, the Bakersfield Republican has developed a reputation for his ambition. Here’s a look at McCarthy’s career, starting with his time in the California State Assembly to his recent years as a political influencer poised to become second in the line of presidential succession.
Representatives for McCarthy did not respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
