let s hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if anything, it would justle ofo probably be a couple of votes short, but certainly progress. itht a is realt th tonight at ts hour, no doubt the american people are being patient, butop that patience is wearingle thin the vote totals remain as of now unchanged. three straightotals re days. we have two hundred republicans supporting mccarthy 20 supportin g somebody else. and the past twenty four hours,
our hanadi hot seat tonight, former democratic congressman luis gutierrez is with us .e congressman. a congre how are you? i m sure you re glad you re nots a congressman anymore. mar-a-lago. well, listen, i retired four years go . i know. and i m happy to get my social security check every month. i hope you get a good amount of money. i really do.of mon congratulations. look, i ve read a lot about your positions and sometimes you ve used incendiary rhetoric and called people racist. you don t even likeit the tee illegal immigrant. now, you are a former lawmaker.d we re supposed to to be a natia of laws. our constitution, every law is is rooted under our constitution. whw is y would you be againsthe identifying people that don t respect our law? our sovereignty, our borders,got and don t go through the legal process? egal procesof entering our coun? well, i don t i call themocumen undocumented immigrants and we can choosetewe can our words, bt they need a status that