the first round of votes, he plans to fight to until the very end. he confidently told reporters on tuesday, quote, at the end of the day, we will get there. joining me right now, ali roth, up msnbc capitol hill correspondent. ali, let s talk about it, the latest you are hearing on whether mccarthy will end up with enough votes to secure the speakership. also, who could be running against him? yeah, lindsey, good morning. kevin mccarthy stuck it right in the middle of this very high stakes tug of war for the speakership title. remember, 31 house republicans opted not to nominate him for the job. we have around half a dozen house republicans who publicly said they would not support him when the vote finally does come on january 3rd. there are suspicions that more house republicans maybe feeling this way, but don t want to say so publicly until it becomes obvious that mccarthy will be able to ease the necessary 218 vote threshold to be able to
argument of this nature, it s only because he is not in the courtroom, but you still want the presence felt from the jury. part of the reason you would do that is that you want the you don t want the which might lead them closer to a conviction. it s the closest thing that they will get to a conviction for the trump organization that is next to donald trump. in some cases, as a former prosecutor, i will tell you, those are objections that even though the you know you are coming, you are willing to take. yeah, you said you know they are coming, the attorney representing the trump payroll incorporation, asked for a mistrial saying, quote, we picked a jury based on the people representation that donald trump has not on trial. he claims the bias was put on the jury that is not undone. the prosecution saying we have religiously avoided politics. the mistrial was denied, but these are some 11th hour fireworks, what is directly in front of the jury come monday? the question from the j