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
that happen in the past where the primary reason john boehner retired, he was forced into the position because he couldn t get the, you know, his right flank to support spending bills, and he had to pass them, so he ended up having to get some democrats to support them. you know, that could happen again. i worry about a lot of things, and that s one of them. but the interesting thing, though, jake, i think by having these some of these freedom caucus individuals on the rules committee, for example, which actually sets out the rules of how bills will be brought and amended on the floor, it actually helps that process once we get there because they will have been involved with it, rather than one of their primary objections they feel like these bills come to the floor and we have no input to them and then we re forced to support something we have not been able to influence in any way. i think that s going to minimize that. that s kevin s intention and one that i support. let s bring in