covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that s a change from what you ve heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let s go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters are b
they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st
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