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Bills Player Praises NFL: "They Treated Us Like People"; NHL Trainer Who saved 2 Lives After Same Chest Injury Joins CNN; Republican House Majority Still Unable to Elect House Speaker; Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) Interviewed on Representative Kevin McCarthy's Continued Efforts to Become House Speaker. Aired 8-8:30a ET

Aired January 04, 2023 - 08:00   ET

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REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY, (R-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: Members are talking. We're walking through, and I think we'll find a way to get there. And this is a healthy debate. It might not happen on the day we wanted, but it's going to happen.

REP. MATT GAETZ, (R-FL): If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: A tale of two sides of Republican Party. Good morning, everyone. Poppy and I, you can see, here in New York. Kaitlan live on Capitol Hill for day two, maybe there's a day three, unprecedented speaker election that's happening.

KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: We'll see how many days it goes, Don and Poppy. The Republican leadership drama will again be center stage in just a few hours from now when the House is set to reconvene at noon. Kevin McCarthy thus far has failed to win enough votes to become House speaker. How long will the GOP power struggle last? That is the question many Republicans have. And are there any plans for a concession candidate in the works?

LEMON: Also, we're learning now Damar Hamlin, that he had to be resuscitated twice after suffering a cardiac arrest and collapsing on the field during Monday Night Football. Our very own Wolf Blitzer spoke to Hamlin's Buffalo Bills' teammate. Wolf, a lifelong Bills fan, is going to join us just in a moment.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, that interview was so amazing. Also, an update on Jeremy Renner on the road to recovery after a traumatic snow plowing accident. What first responders saw when they got to the scene.

LEMON: We're going to get to Kaitlan in a moment, but first I want to get back to talk about the new Republican majority in the House marked by party rebellion that has thus far kept Kevin McCarthy from achieving his dream of becoming the speaker of the House.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. A speaker has not been elected. A speaker has not been elected.

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LEMON: With emphasis, a speaker has not been elected. McCarthy failing on three separate ballots. It is the first time in a century members of Congress have needed multiple votes to choose a speaker. Right now, it's paralyzed the entire chamber. There's no speaker. There's no sworn in members. Effectively, there is no House of Representatives right now. And in a few hours we expect the voting the potential standoff will resume on the House floor. Twenty Republicans at last count had defected from the McCarthy camp. So the question remains, is there still a path for McCarthy to become speaker? Straight now to Capitol Hill, CNN's Jessica Dean. Good morning to you, Jessica. Is there a path?

JESSICA DEAN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Don. That is the big question. Is there a path? If you talk to McCarthy publicly, he says, of course, I'm stay in. I'm not dropping out. But privately we know that there are talks that this may not work for Kevin McCarthy. It's a simple math game right now. And I was in that chamber for four or five hours yesterday when they did the three failed votes. No speaker as we heard over and over.

And it became very clear that this is a stalemate. And those 20 members, a lot of them were sitting together, talking to each other. They remained quite united. And so as we look ahead to today, we know that they're going to convene again at noon. And the question is what happens now, because we saw the first two votes, 19 people voting against Kevin McCarthy. It then increased to 20 on the third vote. That's certainly not the direction he wanted to go in. But again, he maintains he's not dropping out. He's staying in. Here's what he said.

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REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY, (R-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: I think at the end of the day we'll get everybody together.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But at this point you failed three times. How do you possibly pull this off?

MCCARTHY: I'll get to 218.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How do you do it?

MCCARTHY: You come back, you continue what you're doing right now, talking, and you solve the small problems.

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DEAN: But the fact remains the reality is, Don, that he has been talking to these members for weeks now trying to wheel and deal and get them on board, and they are simply unmoved. They do not want to see Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

So do we see a new candidate emerge? What kind of conversations happen today? Don, it's possible when they convene at noon they adjourn to have more conversations. That's what we're watching as we head into the rest of the day.

LEMON: Thank you very much for that, Jessica. Kaitlan, drama, drama, drama all around.

COLLINS: Absolutely, and we'll see how it continues, because we did just hear a few moments ago from the former president, former President Trump calling on those Republican holdouts to vote for Kevin McCarthy and close the deal. He's warning them to avoid an embarrassing defeat, he says.

Joining us now is to talk about this is the Florida Congressman Brian Mast who voted in support of Kevin McCarthy yesterday, we should note. Good morning. Thank you for being here.

REP. BRIAN MAST (R-FL): Good morning. How are you doing?

COLLINS: Is that statement from Trump enough to get those 20 Republicans who voted against Kevin McCarthy over the line?

MAST: I don't think that that's the end all, be all. In your opening you talked about it being a power struggle.

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And I don't think the power struggle is exactly what everybody thinks it is. The power struggle is about decentralizing the speaker's office. And that's something that the Republican Party is working very seriously on. This happened under both parties. Under Republican in the majority, under Democrats in the majority, rank and file members like myself or Matt Gaetz or others, we got to be part of the process procedurally. But did we really get to effect change in the way we wanted to with open floor debate and things like that? And Speaker Pelosi, that's how she had control. That's how she kept Republicans out of the process by having this iron grip on the speaker's office and all power coming out of that. That's what the Republican Party is getting rid of. That's the real power struggle.

COLLINS: So you're saying regardless of who ultimately becomes House speaker it is going to be a weakened position?

MAST: One hundred percent. No matter who is the House Speaker -- it will be Kevin McCarthy. But when that takes place, it will be a position -- you can't say it's weakened. It's an empowering position for the members of the conference. That makes it difficult for Republicans to correct course in the way we want to because that also empowers the Democrat members in the way that Republicans when we were in the minority we were not empowered. That door goes both ways. But it's going to make it a messy two years. But that's the real power struggle going on. COLLINS: Do you still think Kevin McCarthy gets there?

MAST: I think Kevin McCarthy gets there. I know he gets there.

COLLINS: How?

MAST: How is by speaking behind closed doors with individuals about what has to take place in this struggle to make sure that members feel empowered enough to know that if we're dealing with border issues, they can get their voice not just heard where people are barely on the floor listening to them, but heard in a way that their amendments get to move forward, be part of the underlying bill text and actually affect change in America or on energy policy or on whatever. That's the assurances that people are looking for, that they're not going to be blocked by a centralized power in the speaker's office when they're duly elected like everyone else.

COLLINS: But part of that would be getting the Republicans who did not vote for you to vote for you. And I talked to Byron Donalds who switched his vote yesterday. He says he hasn't heard from McCarthy.

MAST: There might be some, maybe some other people that he's speaking to right now. I couldn't say where all of that relationship is. I think if I'm putting this in a matter of fact way, understanding how these things go behind closed doors, when people are whipping, hey, are you going to be with me on this vote, will you vote for me for speaker, this and that, understanding that these can go to multiple ballots. A lot of time the whip count is will you be with me on the first ballot, how about the second ballot. After that, will you still be with me? And people say, well, listen, you've got me for two ballots, but on the third ballot, I'm going to have to do something else. I don't know that that's what happened with Byron, but I would suspect it was something.

COLLINS: You're still committed to voting for Kevin McCarthy?

MAST: I'm committed to voting for Kevin McCarthy. He has done the work in helping Republicans get elected, in laying out a path forward for Republicans to go forward and correct these paralyzing issues for the United States of America. He's the right leader.

COLLINS: Does he have a strategy here, though?

MAST: In dealing with becoming speaker of the House?

COLLINS: Yes.

MAST: The strategy is to continue the dialogue, continue the debate with this, not to overly use this terminology, but as you said, the power struggle, but it's, like I said, the power struggle of decentralizing power out of the speaker's office.

COLLINS: If they're continuing -- excuse me for interrupting -- if they're continuing, do they, was it smart to adjourn yesterday? Because I had heard that Kevin McCarthy initially did not want them to adjourn. He wanted them to keep voting. Should they have adjourned or was that a mistake?

MAST: I think the adjournment actually fell under something that happened more often than not in Washington, D.C., and it goes to what happened right at Christmas time. Timing and people wanting to be somewhere else in many cases is unfortunately what affects policy in many places. There's a $1.7 trillion spending package that went through that McConnell and others pushed through in the Senate. I was absolutely pissed off about that, especially with Republicans moving into the majority. And why did they do it? Because they wanted to go home for Christmas. As much as I wanted to be with my family yesterday and those that came in town for the special occasion of swearing in, there was work to be done, and I think we should have continued during that work. But ultimately, I think that's why there was an adjournment, so everybody could be with their family members and their guests that are in town.

COLLINS: Basically, they got tired of being in there in the room.

Kevin McCarthy and Republicans had this closed-door meeting yesterday morning where he had this very aggressive tone, saying basically that he deserved the speakership, that he had worked for it. There were criticisms of that, that it was too aggressive and that it kind of hardened those who were against him. Do you think he took the right tone yesterday?

MAST: I think he took the exact right tone. It was a tone where sometimes when you're debating with people, it is confrontational, right. We're still part of the same family. We sit down together at Thanksgiving together. And we don't get along with everybody, our own flesh and blood. Sometimes it gets heated in that way. Don't think that it was just one-sided. But in the end, we're still a team, we're going to work through this, and we'll get the job done for America in the way that we promised.

COLLINS: What does what we saw yesterday say about what happens when Republicans are in charge?

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MAST: I think it shows that we're reflective, truthfully. This is going to be an incredibly messy two years, a messy two years because we're allowing the process in Washington, in the Capitol, to play out the way the founders designed it, in a messy way where everybody on both sides of the aisle gets to be a part of it. That's going to make it actually more difficult for us to get the things done that we want to get done. But we're reflective enough to say that's the way things are supposed to work here, not the way that Speaker Pelosi had them working.

COLLINS: So what you're saying is what happened yesterday is what we're going to see more of on repeat?

MAST: Yes. You're going to see a messy two years in Washington because everybody is going to get a say so in a way that they haven't.

COLLINS: OK, Brian Mast, thank you for joining us. We'll wait to see if you do vote today when you convene back at noon. You say you're still voting for Kevin McCarthy. Thank you very much for you time. Thank you.

HARLOW: I think you just asked the question of the morning, Kaitlan, what does it say about Republican leadership? We'll see. That is his perspective. A lot still to happen today.

Also on our top story also this morning, on Damar Hamlin, we have new details about the Buffalo Bills safety, how he's doing. His uncle Dorrian Glenn told CNN that his nephew had been resuscitated twice. That is a new development we didn't know. He was resuscitated on the field and again at the hospital. Currently he is sedated. He is on ventilator to take some of the strain off his lungs. Glenn said doctors had to flip him over on his chest in what our medical experts call a prone position to try to ease breathing, reduce some of that fluid buildup. So the next step in Hamlin's recovery is to get him to breathe on his own. But overall, Glenn says Hamlin appears to be trending upward. So that's a positive sign. Listen.

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DORRIAN GLENN, DAMAR HAMLIN'S UNCLE: Man, we were all in tears, man. I'm not a crier, but I never cried so hard in my life, man, just to know my nephew basically died on the field and they brought him back to life. That's just heart breaking. I'm just glad he's still alive and able to fight and trying to get better and recover.

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HARLOW: Tributes pouring out, so many messages of support. Teams across the league have changed their social media profile pictures to pray for damar with, of course, his jersey number three there.

LEMON: And this just in to CNN THIS MORNING, a high ranking official with the Buffalo Bills organization telling CNN's Coy Wire that after day and night long meetings on Tuesday, they broke down crying, sobbing because of the heaviness of the current situation. This incident clearly having a huge impact on the organization. In an exclusive interview with our very own CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Damar Hamlin's teammate, Bills offensive tackle Dion Dawkins describing what it was like to witness Hamlin collapsing on the field.

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DION DAWKINS, OFFENSIVE TACKLE, BUFFALO BILLS: In that moment, you kind of just realize you can't take anything for granted. And looking at a teammate, a brother on the ground, it's just -- it's just a drastic state to see a brother laying down and everyone else kind of just -- just come on, come on, come on, get up, get up. And all those drastic emotions like that are pouring out. Just seeing him, not one second of our life is promised. And with this play, it is showing that, that one play later it has taken Damar, a 24-year-old man, to his knee, and he's fighting. And for everybody that thinks that, oh, it's about a fantasy point or my draft, whatever. This is real life. This is real life.

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LEMON: Well, our very own colleague, there he is, CNN's Wolf Blitzer joins us now. Wolf, good morning. Thank you so much. It doesn't get more real than that. Those guys were right there when it happened and witnessed all of it.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR, THE SITUATION ROOM: He's 6'5" about 350 pounds, the offensive tackle Dion Dawkins, and to just think that like everybody else he started crying right away, as soon as we saw Damar stand up and then collapse on the ground and all the medical emergency personnel come out.

I was watching it, Monday Night Football, like so many other millions of people, and it was so shocking to me. I've seen players get injured. But to see someone collapse like that and then learn it's a cardiac arrest and all of that, it was just so, so awful and so heartbreaking, especially for us who are lifelong Buffalo Bills fans, and to see what's going on.

HARLOW: This interview, I hope people watch the whole thing, Wolf. At the end -- you're such a lifelong Bills fan. He said to you, Dion, I love you, Wolf, you mean so much to us. And I know he and the whole team mean so much to you. I was really struck by this part, Wolf, that I want to play about how grateful they were they didn't have to go back on the field and finish that game. Here's what he told you.

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DION DAWKINS, OFFENSIVE TACKLE, BUFFALO BILLS: I'm truly blessed that we didn't have to keep playing. The fact that we didn't have to go back out there on that field and play, it just shows that there is care.

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And that's all that we can ever ask for is that you know, we get treated as people because you know like most people just treat us as athletes and as superstars and as some -- and some people like celebrities, but in that moment, they treated us like people.

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HARLOW: What did you think when you heard that, Wolf?

BLITZER: You know, it's true because you know, we've -- those of us who are lifelong football fans, and I'm a lifelong football fan, a Buffalo Bills fan since my dad took me to games when I was a little boy growing up in Buffalo, but you know you see players get injured. But to see something like this, which is a life and death situation unfold on the playing field, it's so heart-wrenching just to think about it. And we're not used to it.

I had never seen anything like this before where a player was on the ground, and potentially in a life-threatening situation as was unfolding for Damar. So, it's just awful -- it was just an awful situation. HARLOW: Yes.

BLITZER: And for -- not just for me, but for millions of people who are watching and later watched some of those clips, it's just heartbreaking. People who aren't even interested in football were so moved. And if you take a look at Dion Dawkins' hat --

HARLOW: Yes.

BLITZER: You know, it's a special GoFundMe page that Damar had created to help you know poor kids in his hometown outside of Pittsburgh. And it -- you know originally, he -- when he created, he was opening to raise about $2,500. You see -- you see him there with the hat. It's now raised almost what, five or $6 million?

LEMON: $6 million.

HARLOW: Six, yes.

BLITZER: Yes, $6 million as a result of that, The Chasing M's Foundation.

HARLOW: Yes.

BLITZER: But it's really an amazing thing. And I'm so proud of all of these guys for doing what they're doing. Dion Dawkins too, he's got a foundation that's raised a lot of money for the families of the victims of the Tops supermarket massacre in Buffalo where a killer went into that supermarket and just started killing grandmothers and others for no reason at all.

LEMON: Yes.

BLITZER: It's just -- to see these players do what they're doing, in addition to being great football players, but doing for the community, what they're doing, it's so meaningful.

LEMON: Hey, Wolf, you know, they're announcing. They said that they weren't going to resume the game, and then they would possibly, possibly do it later. Did you talk to Dawkins about that? What was his reaction?

BLITZER: Yes. He was pleased that the NFL decided to postpone this game. And those of us you know, who know football a little bit, there's no way these players could have gone out.

LEMON: Right.

BLITZER: And played a regular game after seeing one of their friends and one of their brothers lying on the ground in cardiac arrest like that in a life-and-death situation. How do you go back and start playing very aggressive football in a situation like that? So, I'm glad they've decided to postpone the Bengals-Bills game. The Bills are at least scheduled this weekend to play the New England Patriots. We'll see if that unfolds.

LEMON: Well, Dion Dawkins speaks for a lot of us, Wolf. We love you and we know how much of a fan you are.

HARLOW: Yes.

LEMON: And how much this really hurt your heart to see this happen. Here at all of us. But you know, you've been a lifelong fan. Thank you, Wolf Blitzer. We really appreciate that.

BLITZER: Thank you, Don.

LEMON: Make sure you tune in to Wolf on "THE SITUATION ROOM" at 6:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN. Always a great show. Always a great show.

So, straight ahead, we're going to be joined by an NHL athletic trainer who saved two hockey players' lives when they suffered the same chest injury mid-game.

HARLOW: Also, there was heavy rain flooding, hurricane force winds. We're live in San Francisco where they're getting ready for a dangerous storm system.

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BENJAMIN WATSON, FORMER NFL PLAYER: One thing you learned early in football is that football is 100 percent injury support. We understand that these things happen when you have high-speed collisions with, you know, world-class athletes. It's something that makes the game exciting, but it's also something that makes you very sober.

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LEMON: So, that was former NFL player Benjamin Watson talking about why he thinks football is inherently dangerous. Well, Damar Hamlin did not have a pulse after he collapsed in the field. Staff used CPR and the defibrillator to revive him.

And our next guest is someone who has a sense of what that medical team went through. In 1998, St. Louis Blues head athletic trainer Ray Barile ran into the ice after star player Chris Pronger was hit square in the chest by a puck, which stopped his heart. Barile revived Pronger.

In a tweet thread about Hamlin yesterday, Pronger credited Barile and the Detroit Red Wings medical staff for his survival. More than 20 years later, in 2020, Barile did it again. He revived another player, Jay Bouwmeester, who collapsed on the bench due to a cardiac episode. Bouwmeester also survived.

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JAY BOUWMEESTER, FORMER ST. LOUIS BLUES PLAYER: And I just wanted to say thank you to Ray Barile and the training staff of both our team in Anaheim and the doctors and all the paramedics.

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LEMON: So, Ray Barile joins us now. Ray, good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. It's a very important subject and a very sensitive one, as a matter of fact. When you saw what happened on the field in Cincinnati to Damar Hamlin, what did you think? What went through your mind?

RAY BARILE, HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER, ST. LOUIS BLUES: Good morning, Don. Good morning, Poppy.

HARLOW: Good morning.

BARILE: Yes, I had flashbacks. I thought of Chris Pronger's situation, I thought of Jay Bouwmeester's situation immediately, and I thought about the Buffalo Bills staff, I thought about the positions on the field, Cincinnati Bengals staff who were there to help him and you know, I definitely had two flashbacks.

HARLOW: Can you talk about the different -- I mean, first of all, you're a lifesaver, literally twice over -- two times over, '98 and 2020. And I know you're humble and you don't like to take credit. You say it's the whole team around you. I'm sure that's true, but it's you. But things really changed.

BARILE: Yes.

HARLOW: You know, you had to -- in 98, use something called -- a risky maneuver called the precordial thump.

BARILE: Yes.

HARLOW: And then in 2020, you could use this defibrillator that Don and I have been talking about so much being so critical.

BARILE: Well, medical advances, you know as we've all seen, are just incredible. In 98, we didn't have a defibrillator. And my understanding was there wasn't even a defibrillator in the ambulance. And what I learned CPR back in the 70s, they taught a precordial thump which is you take your fist and you pound squarely on the sternum and that's supposed to restart the heart.

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You do it quickly. It has to be seen. And the fact that I saw a Pronger go down with this particular injury, the commotio cordis that he was diagnosed with, it made sense because we didn't have a defibrillator. And Dr. William Birenbaum was on the ice with me and I looked at Dr. B., and I said, you're doing compressions and I'm starting brass, we started to cut off his jersey and his shoulder pads gave him a good hit on the chest. And thankfully for us, Chris Pronger converted on the ice. And we're very, very fortunate in that situation.

LEMON: So, everyone's wondering what Damar Hamlin is like, what's next for him? And you can judge I guess, by other people's recovery. What were their recoveries like?

BARILE: I can't speak -- I can't speak to Damar's you know situation personally. I'm not -- I don't have that information. I can tell you. With Chris Pronger, we -- he ran through a bunch of cardiology tests with our cardiologists at Washington University School of Medicine and Washington University of orthopedics. Our team physicians cleared him, he returned to play, finish the 12-year career, Hall of Fame and won the Stanley Cup.

And with Jay Bouwmeester, it was slightly different in the fact that Jay had an arrhythmia, not from a contusion or a direct blow, and subsequently had to retire because of this cardiac arrhythmia that he had. But it's -- I can only imagine. I know -- I know exactly how the Buffalo Bills medical staff was feeling right now, and also Cincinnati. We practice this.

The Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers society and the NHL team physician society, we meet every summer, we review all these protocols, we go over the latest equipment, the latest protocols, and details, and we practice them. And so, we're prepared hopefully never to have to use these techniques and protocols.

And I'm sure the Bills staff and the Bengals staff feel the same way as I did after both of those incidents where you're replaying it in your head trying to figure out what you could have done differently. And again, in my situation, we had two excellent outcomes. And that's what I'm most proud of.

HARLOW: So, professional sports has folks like you. There are not a lot -- not a lot of folks like you, but they hope to have folks like you, right? They have all these teams and they have all this prep and they have these defibrillators and they have ambulances on standby.

BARILE: Right.

HARLOW: But kids' teams don't. And that's what we've been talking a lot about.

LEMON: Yes.

HARLOW: Dr. Leana Wen, who's a doctor, also mother, and contributor here at CNN has this piece in The Washington Post this morning. And she says this highlights the need to make defibrillators or AEDs readily accessible in all sports facilities, especially youth sports facilities. Do you think she's right?

BARILE: Oh, I totally concur with that. So, being a youth hockey parent --

HARLOW: Yes.

BARILE: My two sons played. And I -- a couple of things I would do whenever I got to the rink because I was -- always looked for the exit, wanted to know where to go in case there was a fire. I also looked for the defibrillator that was located. And, fortunately, because of my job, I'm able to have a defibrillator and would carry one with me if I knew I was going to a facility that didn't have one. This was after 98.

And so yes, I concur with that statement. I think if you're a youth hockey or a youth parent, and your son or daughter plays sports, you need to locate the defibrillator wherever they're practicing or playing. And such as games, it's also a practice that these incidents can happen.

HARLOW: All right.

BARILE: And you need to make sure that that facility has that. If they don't, you need to push to make sure that they do.

LEMON: Yes. I think --

HARLOW: Yes. That's a good advice.

LEMON: Yes.

HARLOW: I never thought --

LEMON: Yes.

HARLOW: To think about that or asked about that.

LEMON: I call my doctor in that yesterday after the show.

HARLOW: Did you?

LEMON: Yes.

HARLOW: Did you get one at home?

LEMON: I said -- I said if -- I asked him if I should have one.

HARLOW: What did he say?

LEMON: And he said he didn't think it was necessary, but I can get you one, they're on the market. You have to know how to use it. But you know if you have an elderly person in the home, it may be different, or someone who has heart issues. But listen, getting back to what Poopy just said on Dr. Leana Wen, I just want to encourage everyone to read Dr. Leana Wen's --

HARLOW: Op-ed.

LEMON: Op-ed in the Washington Post and it's called -- that says Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest is a wake-up call to youth sports.

HARLOW: Yes.

LEMON: And I'm sure you can agree with that, sir. I'm sure.

HARLOW: As a hockey Dad, as you said.

LEMON: Mr. Barile, thank you for joining us. Good luck to you.

BARILE: Wholeheartedly.

HARLOW: Thank you, Ray. Thank you, Ray.

LEMON: Thank you.

BARILE: Thank you.

HARLOW: All right. So, an update since the show yesterday, we've heard from actor Jeremy Renner. He is opening up about the snowplow accident that landed him in intensive care.

COLLINS: And also, back here on Capitol Hill, what we can expect today on day two of this speakership vote. Dana Bash is going to join us. This is CNN's special live coverage.

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