anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. and then a few hours later president biden will honor 12 people at the white house including police officers injured in the capitol attack. we ll take to you both events live. also just a few moments from now, house republicans set to hold a conference call as the standoff over who will be house speaker continues. this, of course, after kevin mccarthy failed to get the votes needed after three days and 11 rounds of votes. mccarthy allies continuing to negotiate with the hardliner holdouts. the situation fluid but mccarthy remains confident this morning. we re going to get it done. let s go straight to correspondent manu raju live there on capitol hill. so, this meeting, just about 15 minutes from now as i understand it, it is about to begin. where do the negotiations stand going into that meeting, manu? reporter: well this is a critical moment for kevin mccarthy because he needs to demonstrate that the deal-cutting going on b
right now house republicans holding a critical conference call as they continue to try to hash out a deal for house speaker. this after they failed to secure the votes needed after three days and 11 rounds of voting. kevin mccarthy remaining confident this morning, vowing to reporters that they will be shocked by the progress made today. here is gop congressman jim banks last hour on where negotiations stand. take a listen. i don t know if i see light at the end of the tunnel yet. but i m hearing about it. a lot of progress made overnight and negotiations continue with the holdouts as you just mentioned, a number of i believe really healthy concessions have been made. joining me now to discuss elaine luria of virginia. she was also a member of the january 6 select committee. nice to see you this morning. i have to ask, after serving two
conventional wisdom is that they will deal with this as part of the continuing resolution, which you heard speaker boehner say the house is going to vote on that next week. the deadline for that is at the end of march. this will likely drag on for a bit. now, in terms of what happened once the sequester kicks in, the number of government workers will be furloughed. there s a concern that some kids will get kicked off of head start. when does that happen? it doesn t happen immediately. the furloughs will go out. the notices will begin to go out but the actual workers won t be furloughed for about a month. so there is some time before people really start to feel the brunt of this. but if you listen to speaker boehner s tone, it doesn t seem as though there s a whole lot of progress made today. do we know exactly how long they were behind closed doors, how long this meeting took place? well, it lasted for about an hour which is actually longer than people expected. we thought the meet