After days of failed votes to elect a new speaker, the House is in limbo and questions remain whether Kevin McCarthy can unite Republicans. Plus, President Biden and Mitch McConnell appear together to tout infrastructure. Join Yamiche Alcindor, Ali Vitali of NBC News, Susan Page of USA TODAY, Carl Hulse of The New York Times and Yasmeen Abutaleb of The Washington Post to discuss this and more.
on board, that will also be enough. kevin mccarthy will be the speaker. again, alphabetically, rosendale is the 335th name they re gonna call. they re currently in about the 250 s. so, there s quite a bit of time between here in there. again, when they get to 434, everyone who hasn t answered alphabetically, we ll start working through that list. so, we should get too buck quickly, gaetz not too far after that. and gosar. right, let s bring in ali vitali, our capitol hill correspondent, who s been following this very closely. ali, a lot of developments tonight. lauren boebert, voting present after implying on fox news. let s see what happens tonight, which is a bit of a change of tone for her. we ve got, as steve just said, gaetz, rosendale, gosar, one of them is going to be a headline maker tonight about the whole thing. gaetz has said on fox news as well that he s run out of things to ask for. what do you know about the situation? reporter: look, i read that, ali, as a bit of spi
nbc that he spoke to trump, tonight and that the former president said he s still in fact supports him with that let s get smarter and then it today, with the help of our lead off panel. and we see capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles, and read gayle, and cofounder of the lincoln project, he s worked on a number of gop campaigns including john mccain i turn to you now, you ve been on the hill, all day, all night, besides a pizza party and kevin mccarthy s office, what in the world is the latest? well we just talk to kevin mccarthy for quite a long time, we talk to reporters about where his head is right, now where he thinks this race is headed, it seems quite cool and calm about the state of play, he believes there is no one else who has more votes for speaker than him, at least in the republican conference, and
with the help of our lead off panel. and we see capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles, and luke broadwater and reed galen, who has worked on a number of gop campaigns, including auto sports nature and george w. bush. ryan, i turn to you first. besides a pizza party and kevin mccarthy s office, what in the world is the latest? well we just talk to kevin mccarthy for quite a long time stephanie, he came out and briefed reporters about where his head is right, now where he thinks this race is headed, it seems quite cool and calm about the state of play, he believes there is no one else who has more votes for speaker than him, at least in the republican conference, and that ultimately, cooler heads are gonna prevail among this faction of conservative republicans, who don t believe that he s the best choice. he said they re still negotiating and trying to come up with the path forward.
call one eight hundred, eight million we have breaking news because this is the season o breaking news. and that is that the january 6th committee has just, in the past few minutes, released transcripts from 46 witnesse and its investigation. the transcripts include very boldface names that you ll remember and recognize, like trump attorney general, bill barr, trump secretary of state mike pompeo, trump s transportation secretary, wife of mitch mcconnell, elaine chao, white house counsel pa cipollone, and the president own daughter, ivanka trump joining me now with more information is nbc s capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles ryan, it is good to see.