WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: And all of a sudden, yesterday, he announces he's going to challenge him for the speakership.</s>MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: It is remarkable because I talked to him on Thursday and he said that he was supportive of Kevin McCarthy. And then Friday morning, he had a meeting with McCarthy in New York. They were at a fund-raiser together, and he told McCarthy straight up, I will challenge you, and he said that he decided between Thursday night and Friday morning that he going to run. But he knows that he is a long shot for the race, and little chance that he can win, but he is trying to tap into the unrest within the Republican conference over simply promoting the existing leadership team, and that is the leadership team that folks are talking about that the Republicans and the conservatives have not been aggressive enough in pursuing the agenda, and not just fighting the president, but the Republicans in the Senate as well.</s>BLITZER: And this could get lively if Kevin McCarthy gets the majority of the caucus in the House, and he does not get the 218 vote -- all of the Democrats will vote for Nancy Pelosi on a ballot after ballot -- this could go on and on, and maybe the Republicans will have to find somebody who could get 218 vote, and maybe not necessarily Jason Chaffetz, but maybe someone else could emerge. So this could be lively.</s>RAJU: Yes, their hands will be full the next couple of weeks.</s>BLITZER: Thanks for doing that Manu. Thanks very much.</s>RAJU: Thanks, Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Still ahead, 23 dead, two of them children after an air strike hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. We are going live to Kabul for the latest in the investigation.
Chaffetz Challenges McCarthy for House Speaker