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,
they re seventy two hours to read the rule. i ll read the bill allad the b d stuff. term limits, i mean, you name ey it, they got everythinthg. e seo my question is ,nd well, where are the votes? the second thing is , what about the twtho hundred and onee loople that have been loyal to kevin mccarthy? what rules and committees have they gotten on to? what rules changes have they gotten from their from their loyalty at some point? lois has got to end. the one upside here is that we look at kevin mccarthy and i took note of this today. he s a happy warrior. he s doing what a speaker should do, hanging in there and fighting and in fact, clap for all of the people that arege being nominated to run against him. and get 20 votes. and so, you know, i ve listened to these interviews for three days listening to thesehal group of 20 complain aboutisor r the fact that nanceey pelosi, yu know, she got rid of the motiona to vacate. well, kevin t motion, mccarthy n gave you a motion to vacate with o