a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on that. you
david scott. effries. so here s the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime let s bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. that s right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have matt g
buck? buck? bucshon? mccarthy. budzinski? jeffries. burchett? mccarthy. burgess? mccarthy. burlison? mccarthy. bush? jeffries. calvert? mccarthy. caraveo? jeffries. carbajal? jeffries. mccarthy. carl? mccarthy. carson? jeffries. carter of georgia? mccarthy. carter of louisiana? jeffries. carter of texas? mccarthy. casar? jeffries. case? jeffries. casten? jeffries. castor of florida? jeffries. castro of cicilline? jeffries. ciscomani? mccarthy. clark of massachusetts? jeffries. clarke of new mccarthy. comer? mccarthy. connolly? so we are waiting for the vote for michael cloud because potentially if he did decide not to vote for kevin mccarthy, that would have put them over the threshold but now we are waiting for andrew clyde. we have the fifth ballot for speaker and the fifth ballot that seems to be moving in the same direction as the first four? exactly. it was 21 on the last ballot. 21 republicans who did not vote for mccarthy. 20 voted for donalds. one voted present. a
republican congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers on gas prices hitting $5 a gallon for the first time in the history, and bill barr on something he told january 6th committee and with our very own lucas tomlinson at white house on a president fending off attacks, it s that 70 # inflation show all over again, and he is the not too happy star. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. happy weekend to you. let s go first to my buddy lucas on how the administration is handling all this bad news on prices. reporter: well, neil, the labor department issuing a brutal report yesterday saying that inflation is getting worse, not better. the average cost of goods up 8.6% over a year ago. now, president biden speaking in los angeles in addition to blaming putin, he s blaming exxon for the skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill. they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one. and number two
House democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected. Disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide. And it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. And hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he