a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane andy harris is not one of them. it s a different individual. in any case, the six are keeping mccarthy two votes short of the magic number needing needed to realize his dream of clinching the speaker s gavel. straight to chief congressional correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. mccarthy won over much of the republican opposition today. he s still short of enough votes to win. how does he get the final two votes he nooesz? right now the top lea
be that hard for a lot of republicans in the house or senate to steamroll over that. on the defense question, i think i take your point about the defense contractsers and overspending. i think this is more about the isolationist stream we ve seen in the populist republican party than it is about anything else. you don t think it s about the swamp. it s like we don t need a big military because we don t need to be overseas. right. it has more to do with the fact that there are a love trump supporters in the populace gop, and this has been a strain in american public life for over a century, right, just get us out of there, we don t want to be involved, the rand paul of the world, so i think that s a little bit of what it is and that s a huge ideological divide inside the republican party. sure. it s still a hawk wing in the republican party and that s why i think people have focused on this as something that mccarthy may have steamed have given away and angered a significant i