making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we ve seen in this chamber is tough. it s tough to watch. it s tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that s why it s important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? madam speaker, i would like to rise to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house. the gentlewoman is recognized. i ve known byron for roughly about four years now. and being that he s from the state of florida i can tell you that i ve come to know him on both the campaign trail and personally. but i want to clarify something real
the house this morning. lawmakers set to vote again in two hours. but gop leader kevin mccarthy has put up a new offer he hopes will win over a faction of his party. that has been fighting against his candidate us is. what he s giving up now and why it might hurt him with moderates. also what is president trump trump s roul roel? he s made call to holdouts asking them to vote for mccarthy. what they told him to do instead and why he s now predicting a big win today. plus the man accused of stabbing four university of idaho students is back in idaho. what new body camera footage released by police shows. and the latest on buffalo bills safety damar hamlin three days after he suffered cardiac arrest in the game against the bengals. what the bills are saying about the change in his condition. next hour, president biden will address the southern border ahead of his first trip since taking office. what his administration is doing while the supreme court wait s to reconsider
supporters. but progress is progress. he has to get through today and get to tomorrow. progress is progress. he has to get through today and tomorrow. there are whispers getting louder about potential other candidates for speaker. one of them is steve scalise. is he going to be if his name comes up and if he decides to move into that position, kevin mccarthy, could he get enough votes with these never kevin people who are are also kind of never leadership people. yeah, that s an important distinction that you re making. jake and all the rest of the folks here scrambling around the capitol with me day in and day out know this. for some of the 19 to 21 no votes that exist right now, for some of them, it is a kevin mccarthy problem. but it s not exactly clear that steve scalise wouldn t come with his own set of problems whether it s that he s not palettable to some of the moderate parts of the conference or whether he s also just the same kind of a stand-in for the people who already
congressman, those conversations that you said you ve had with what you describe as seven or eight people have been saying five, six. you re saying seven or eight people who will absolutely never vote for kevin mccarthy. how are those conversations when you have them? are they being rational? are they defining in any way what they re for, as you said, as opposed to what they re against? which we all know is kevin mccarthy. well, i think every one of these people have said where their threshold is. and i m simply taking them on their word about their threshold. but once again, we ve got six or seven that are making progress, and maybe that will impact the others. it is time that we make a deal. it is time we get together. and it is time we get to work. congressman sessions, i very much appreciate your time. thank you. you bet. an interesting point he raises there. let s just start with that. that if you do make progress, as he s calling it, and you do get six or seven, and tha
meaning they don t have 218 votes to adjourn. so that s why this is continuing to go on and on and on. now, behind the scenes there are negotiations that are happening. and that is really what could be key here. because if they make progress on those negotiations, significant progress, actually shake hands, come to some sort of of tentative agreement, that could change the dynamic tonight. and i am told from a source that is directly involved in these talks that their hope is to get that deal tonight. that is the push, to get that aspect of the deal done. that includes a number of rules changes, many of the things we have been reporting including giving them more leverage over the speakership, giving them more power over the house rules committee and the like. as long as they get those hammered out, they believe at that point they can get the vote agreement to adjourn the chamber because some republicans may come along the lines and adjourn the dham behr. this is the other complicating