hah keep jeffries. cleaver? jeffries. cline? kevin mccarthy. cloud? jim jordan. clyburn? jeffries. clyde? biggs. cohen? hakeem jeffries. cole? mccarthy. collins? as we listen to the roll being called by my count, five republicans have voted against mccarthy for speaker. two voted for jim jordan, one included boebert. and two for andy biggs. garrett haake, by my count that s five and he could only lose four. on this first role call, he said he will keep this going vote after vote until they get worn down or something breaks. is that your take? we never call votes until they are over, but in this case, i now count six, one more since we came on the air. clyde voting for andy biggs, one of the leaders of this rebel group. six republicans so far voting against kevin mccarthy. if the math holds through the remainder of the alphabet, as we have every reason to expect it will, with all democrats voing for hakeem jeffries, we do appear to be in a s
clyde voting for andy biggs, one of the leaders of this rebel group. six republicans so far voting against kevin mccarthy. if the math holds through the remainder of the alphabet, as we have every reason to expect it will, with all democrats voing for hakeem jeffries, we do appear to be in a situation where we have too many eli crane, another new member going for andy biggs. we re in a situation where this congress will make history. we will have at least one more vote to see who the next speaker will be in the 118th congress. let me nail down one thing. with house votes they can votes, people can change their votes. is that the case also with this vote for speaker or is this basically it? i ve not seen that done i m trying to track it down. when a member changes their vote, it s because they made a technical error.
senate democrats has hoped to have that deal by the end of this week. one of the hold-outs, senator manchin doubted that would be possible. manchin have more to say about the report in mother jones that surfaced yesterday which said he threatened to leave the democratic party if biden s social spending bill was not trimmed. today he denied that report but then he explained what he told the president and majority leader schumer. me being a moderate centrist causes a problem, i would switch, i would still be a democrat. one more item on this thursday night and it s big news of covid booster, the cdc approved booster shots for both moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines. one day after the fda authorized it has additional shots. the cdc also endorsed the use of
stopped being surprise of a duplexity of mccarthy. no, i am not surprised that kevin mccarthy s spinelessness. overall if i think about it, i am a lot more surprised than democrats overall have moved to hold steve bannon contempt. as you recall we got spicy between myself and the general from maryland, there steel steel mr. steel because i didn t think democrats will hold bannon accountable. i am just really shocked and encouraged at this overall turn of strength and turn of so what
whole story right now. he s been blocking that, playing games on that and focusing on selfish and private political purposes. let me ask you potentially painful question i asked james carvel on the show this week and i intend to ask more of our guests who join us from the left side of the isle and the ledger, that s in your heart, do you think that democrats are up to this? yes, but they have to fight. we have to get aggressive, we have to start fighting. we have to bring the case to the american people. look, it took nine months to get this commission from the time of the events of january 6th, some of the most shameful events in american history, a sitting president tried to overthrow the government of the united states, first through a coup and through a violent insurrection and republicans tried to tell us it