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
time. thank you. thanks. harris: the house oversight committee will finally get a chance to interview hunter biden s reportedly best friend and former business associate devon archer set to happen next monday. he will reportedly testify that vice president joe biden joined dozens of his son s business meetings by speakerphone. something the white house has repeatedly denied. now it seems a little change of message on the whole defense thing. here is press secretary for the white house, karine jean-pierre yesterday and last year, watch. i get asked this question a million times. the answer won t change. it remains the same. the president was never in business with his son. i just don t have anything else to add. why is there a voicemail of the president talking to his son about his overseas business dealings if the president has said he has never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings? first i will say that what
insurrection, i don t think we should let that go. coming back late at night to finish their business two years later. yeah. can i just go back to the defense thing for one second because i want to give the rebels credit for this, which is, i think it was senator fred thompson who once said, nobody who has ever been to the pentagon thinks that they couldn t have some of their budget cut. have they not seen the west wing episode where they throw the ashtray to the wall. so the the idea that they actually want to cut defense spending, which is really actually in their view, i m talking about the view of the rebels, cutting money going to defense contractors, cutting money going to fund what eisenhower warned was the military industrial conflicts, that actually is consistent with actual wanting to drain the swamp. it is. and in general, republicans and democrats, have been reluctant to touch that budget, especially republicans, and i give them credit for that. call me skepti
at least one senator is, bernie sanders of vermont is the chair of the senate budget committee, and he joins me now. senator, you know, look, i have been covering politics in washington for 15 years, thereabouts, and it s always been the case. there s money for domestic programs which is real money that has to be accounted for. where you have to get cbo scores, has to be paid for, and then there s money for defense, particularly for war funding. it just doesn t count. it s in a different category. however much, trillions, trillions, trillion here, trillion there. it must be maddening at this point to watch everyone poring through the cbo score while the defense thing just sails through. i m going to be on the floor of the senate in a bit, and chris, you stole my speech. that s exactly the point i m going to be making. the hypocrisy is extraordinary. when we want to improve lives for our children, for the elderly, we want to make health care universal and affordable,