House lawmakers have for the first time ousted their own speaker—and no one has a clue what comes next. In fact, some are literally crying about it.

For now, Representative Patrick McHenry will temporarily lead the House of Representatives, after being handpicked for the role of interim speaker by ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But that’s about all anyone knows about what happens now.

Representative Matt Gaetz, who filed the motion to oust McCarthy late Monday evening, made clear from the very beginning that he has no idea who could possibly take over for the House speaker. After the vote to remove McCarthy as speaker, Gaetz again confirmed that he doesn’t have someone in mind for the role.

Rep. Scott Perry, one of the 11 Republicans to advance the vote to oust McCarthy, also told CNN he doesn’t have a name for who he wants to see as speaker. “We’re going to see what happens now. I’m going to base my decisions on what happens.” (Perry did not, in the end, vote to oust McCarthy.)

Other lawmakers are simply confused about what to do now.

And they’re quickly turning on each other.

This is the first time in 113 years that House lawmakers have voted to oust their own speaker—and the first time in U.S. history that the vote was actually successful.

All this to say, it’s pure chaos in the Republican Party right now.

Donald Trump has been told to watch what he says and posts, or risk ending up behind bars for up to a month.

In the second day of the former POTUS’ financial fraud trial, Judge Arthur Engoron just issued a limited gag order against everyone in the civil case to stop verbal and social media-posted swipes at members of his staff.

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“Personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, not appropriate” Engoron made clear Tuesday after Trump took an underhanded partisan swing at the judge’s principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield, on Trump’s Truth Social platform.

Calling what Trump did “a disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff,” Engoron only cited “one of the defendants” as the one behind the post. But there was no secret to whom he was referring.

The now-deleted post showed Greenfield in a picture standing next to current Senate Majority Leader and fellow New Yorker Chuck Schumer and calls her “Schumer’s girlfriend.” A Trump specialty, the partisan taint has been a common tactic during the prosecution of the case by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat.

With his long history of going on offence, today marked the first time any judge has put the restraints of a gag order on the combative Trump, who is in attendance at the trial for a second day in a row.

Stating there could be “serious sanctions” if his order is not adhered to, Engoron demanded Trump take the offending post down – which the past POTUS and current GOP presidential candidate did fairly quickly. To underline the seriousness of his intentions, Engoron’s threatened sanctions could include fines, more restrictions and even 30 days behind bars for Trump if he violates the order.

In the civil fraud case, Trump, two of his offspring and their companies have been accused of vastly overvaluing assets and the self-proclaimed billionaire’s true worth as the onetime real estate developer went after financing from banks and other institutions. Engoron ruled on much of the case last week, concluding that the former president committed fraud and stripping the Trumps of the control they had over a fair share of their Big Apple real estate holdings.

The bench trial is primarily ongoing to determine damages. Having filed the case in September 2022, the New York Attorney General wants the Trumps to fork over up to $250 million.

The gag order today in New York state court comes as the vitriolic former Celebrity Apprentice host faces a pending motion in another indictment in federal court in DC that seeks to curtail what Trump can say and post about that matter and officials involved in that matter. Of course, anyone who thinks Trump is going to stop attacking judges, staff and the courts online, on the campaign trail or in front of the cameras, and fundraise off it, has been living in a cave for the past several years.

A defendant in four criminal cases as well as this civil case, Trump lives for snapping back at any attempt to limit his behavior, though maybe the threat of prison might curb that at least for a while — at least until he carves out a loophole for himself.

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Congressman Matt Gaetz plans to officially introduce a motion to vacate House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week and, for Seth Meyers, it’s a bit like watching “Alien vs. Predator” play out in real life.

In his first show back following the end of the writers strike, Meyers did a speed run of the news he missed covering in the last five months, before turning the entire show into one big “A Closer Look” segment. In “A Closer Look: To the Max,” the NBC host dug a little deeper on some of the more current news stories, including Gaetz’s promise to oust McCarthy, after the speaker got support from Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.

“Gaetz vs McCarthy is a real ‘Alien vs Predator’ situation,” Meyers joked. “In fact, Gaetz and the alien have the same size forehead, so that’s pretty cool!”

Of course, Meyers’ mockery wasn’t just reserved for Gaetz. The late night host also scoffed at McCarthy’s response to whether he can survive the vote to oust him: “Yes, I’ll survive.”

“Oof, that’s the worst Gloria Gaynor cover I’ve ever heard,” Meyers joked.

In reality though, Meyers was intrigued by the possibility of a government shutdown, if only because he wanted to see President Biden do something Meyers himself did with his coworkers.

“I will say, if the government had shut down I was kind of hoping Biden would follow the late night hosts’ lead and start a podcast with the other living presidents called Air Force Five,” he joked.

You can watch the full “A Closer Look: To the Max” segment in the video above.