alphabetical order, they didn t even get past the cs, sealing a round one loss in a matter of minutes. mccarthy failing to whittle down the small but significant group of republican outliars all dead set on voting against him. the damage a failed first vote like this will inflict on the speakership position from the get go even if he does win, if it s a mess for republicans, a mess for mccarthy and it is shaping up to be a long day ahead for the brand-new 118th congress. he reminded reporters he holds the record for the longest speech ever delivered on the house floor, saying he doesn t care if he gets a similar vote for most speaker vote rounds. we will see if that holds and he sticks to his guns there. joining me from capitol hill, we have garrett haake. also with me, punch bowl news cofounder and nbc news contributor, anna palmer, as well as susan page. buckle up, everybody. we ve got an hour ahead of us here. beginning with you, garrett, walk us through what is happening
control room to pull you have a live shot of the house floor. this is happening. we re about halfway through the alphabet. you see the shot of former house speaker, nancy pelosi. 14 members so far. 15 members so far have chosen somebody other than mccarthy. the vote is not final. the vote is not gavelled, however, if this holds, he will not be speaker for time number two. ali, what happens for time number three? what s the next card to play? that s the next question especially as you have members like chip roy of texas vowing he will still continue to hold mccarthy to a count on a whole list of concessions that he s been trying to get the leader to make over the course of the last few weeks and months. they have made inroads here. these members like roy. who chairs those committees and has prioritized for them, but especially to this idea of the motion to vacate. it s a move that would weaken the speaker and make it easier to oust members. mccarthy holding to a compromise i
mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing
An escalation in gaza in the wake of that Terror Attack that left 1,400 israelis dead. Youre looking at live pictures. Widespread reports of sirens and exploegs. The Israeli Defense forces saying today they are stepping up their Ground Operations. Take a listen. Their Ground Forces are expanding their ground up aerations. Idf is operating at all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. We will continue to attack in gaza and its surrounding, and we keep calling upon the People Living in gaza and iran that south from there the idf did not say troops have entered gaza though its worth noting israeli tanks have temporarily entered gaza over the last two days. All of this while the fate of the 200 hostages held by gaza is unknown. Back channel negotiations are ongoing in the midst of the conflict. Just a few hours ago repeated explosions were seen in the israelgaza border. A few miles away on the ground in gaza near total darkness that was interrupted only by flashes from the ai
Hit for the former president. Sources told abc news, his former Chief Of Staff, we have talked about a lot over the last two years, mark meadows has been granted immunity from the Special Counsel jack smith, in exchange for his testimony before a federal grand jury. Abc report, quote, the source said meadows informed smiths team that he repeatedly told trump in the weeks after the 2020 president ial election that the allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless. Nbc news has not independently confirmed this report. Here is what the former lead investigator for the January 6th Committee had to say about all of this. If its true, it is the most significant evidential if element in the entire investigation, and there is really no one who was closer to the former president in the days between the election and his reluctant release of the white house than mark meadows. Meadows lawyer says, he, quote, told abc their story was largely an accurate that there were also h