paralyze the house and overshadow the gop s new majority. kevin mccarthy has his own problems. obviously republicans are in complete disarray in trying to get their leadership house in order. reporter: mccarthy still projecting confidence and vowing not to go down without a fight. [ inaudible question ] reporter: while his allies acknowledge the tough road ahead. i m confident he can pull the votes together. it s not an easy job. it isn t easy being speaker but i believe he can unite us. if he can t get the veets on tuesday, no one knows what happens next but there s speculation another candidate could jump into the race. i think you ll see an increasing number of members vote for a true candidate that can represent the conservative center, motivate the base, inspire the republicans. get to 218 votes.
at this from pure numbers would say how, with a republican controlled house, where are they going to find the middle ground on this because immigration has been something that congress just has not been able to get done in decades, really. yeah, i mean there is a couple of things. first kevin mccarthy has his own problems and we ll see if he becomes the speaker or not. republicans are in complete disarray in getting their leadership house in order. there are republicans in the congress that are interested in immigration reform. they are hearing from her business community, they re hearing from the labor shortages across the country, agriculture and so there is a group of republicans that want to work on immigration. number two, we have to work every single day to win back in the house in 2024. we were in a much stronger position than people thought they would be and we ll win back, we only have a handful of seats to win and we re going to win back the house in 2024. we re going to ge
we are a few seconds into overtime, so that is tonight s last word, the 11th hour starts now. last word, good evening, i m chris jansing, it s day 385 of the biden administration. the republican parties divide over the january 6th insurrection appears to be deepening. justices gop members are intensifying their efforts to take back the house and senate. today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell publicly rejected the republican national committee s resolution
with democratic congresswoman cori bush. and what did she tell you about messaging in the midterms? that s right, i had the chance to speak with congresswoman bush today with a small number of black reporters on the hill. we talked about the 2022 midterms, of course. and the investigation of january 6th. we are seeing some republicans trying to shift the focus, to try to blame capitol police. and then you have democrats really focusing on some of the issues around this, the larger legislative issues, like police reform. that is something they have been focused on. and congresswoman cori bush told me that in spite of colleagues asking her, since the 2020 election, to stop using the phrase defund the police, because it s hurting them in elections, she says she is going to keep using it. and she is going to keep using it until the house and the senate and the federal government passed some sort of federal police reform legislation into law. she said point blank that if republicans take
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