series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries today. we ll come back tonight and i believe at that time we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. i think getting together and just finding the ability to how are we all going to work together? it s new for us. one, being in the majority but being in a tight majority. i think at the end of the day we re going to be more effective. more efficient. and definitely the government is going to be more accountable. the dam finally broke after mccarthy made concessions to. they will score k
mccarthy made concessions to. they will score key committee assignments. the house are not raise the debt ceilings unless it imposes pend spending controls and the house will reject senate bills which do not comply with conservative requests. we put a lot of structural places in place. a lot of thinking about what the committees should look like to reflect the entirety of the conference. specific changes with respect to rules committee. specific changes obviously the motion to vacate. that allows for accountability and allows to ensure that good bills get to the floor. mccarthy s concessions could curb the speaker s muscle. undercut your power as speaker? has it undercut the power of all the other speakers? it was used over john boehner. but. doesn t that mean you would inherently be a weaker speaker. no. only a weaker speaker if i was but, potential defense cuts