week; i never if give up. [cheers and applause] maria: now republicans are preparing to get to work with plans to adopt a new rules package tomorrow morning, and speaker mccarthy finalizing committee heads this week. coming up, florida congressman byron donalds who emerged as a potential alternative before helping to empower the former minority leader to take the gavel. plus, former green beret and florida congressman michael waltz on the promise of a vote on term limits and a balanced budget within 10 years. plus, joe biden finally discovers fentanyl after two years of silence and 100,000 americans fatally poisoned. for example, since august of last year, custom and border patrol has seized more than 20,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl. that s enough to kill, kill as many as a thousand people in this country. 20,000 pounds of fentanyl. it s a killer. it s a flat killer. maria: coming up, live from the front lewins. texas twof greg governor greg abbott is here as the preside
thank you so much for letting us into your homes all weeklong during these extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber. it s friday, have you heard? i hope you have a great week, nicolle. you, too. welcome to the beat. this republican chaos is continuing on this friday night in the house, which just rejected kevin mccarthy for speaker again, the 13th time. that s two more defeats for mccarthy today. kevin mccarthy is pretty much stuck at this point. he can t even stop these votes from taking place and losing over and over again. house republicans now are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they re not careful. what s it going to take to get over the top? we ll get it done tonight. it looks like he will lose on the 13th ballot. i have a couple members flying back. that s what it s been looking like as the weekend now looms on this friday evening on the east coast. it s clear this is one of the worst weeks for any party leade
only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k
our job is not to coronate the biggest fund raiser or rubber stamp the status quo or keep on going along to get along. it s to use our votes. to elect a speaker who will enable us to get our country back on track. neil: when we eventually decide on that person. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. the showdown to decide who will become the need leader goes into a sixth vote that for the republican leader right now, kevin mccarthy, it s the same old story. a political grounds hog day that yields the same results with every vote. etch though we don t have the sixth round of voting done, we can already know by seeing those under the others category that kevin mccarthy has failed yet again to get the votes he needed. you can t afford to lose more than 4. with each and every voted, he s lost that many and more. it could be as low as 19 and as high as 20. no matter how you slice it, he s coming up zero. chad pergram on capitol hill with more on this and where this goes now. c
house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down r