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Rep. Paul Ryan spends the weekend preparing for the upcoming vote to replace out-going Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner. Diane Hodges reports.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan tells young Republicans in Madison, Wisconsin that what's at stake in the 2016 presidential election is greater than the candidates themselves. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the justice system has been "weaponized" against Donald Trump as he addresses reporters outside the New York court where the former US president is standing trial over hush money payments to an adult film actress. "The system is using all the tools at its disposal right now to punish one president and provide cover for another," Johnson says. SOUNDBITE
Images from inside the House of Representatives during the first round of voting Thursday as Republican favorite Kevin McCarthy fails again to win the speakership -- entrenching a three-day standoff that has paralyzed the lower chamber of Congress. IMAGES