a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on that. you
the ever-exploding federal budget and deficit. we have, to me, as someone who s on the judiciary committee and concerned about such things, we have a select committee, select subcommittee and judiciary to look into the weaponization of federal government against american citizens and their fundamental rights. there are a number of orient rules changes. we call it germaneness and single purpose among them, which will help us to avoid having these massive omnibus bills like we just saw ran through right before christmas with little opportunity to read, decided by a handful of people in a back room. and then we re going to have conservatives distributed on important committees throughout congress. so, it s a really remarkable accomplishment. and i m appreciative to leader mccarthy, soon to be speaker mccarthy, for working with us in this process. and can i ask you, did you talk to him directly? were these sort of direct negotiations that you had, you