a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane andy harris is not one of them. it s a different individual. in any case, the six are keeping mccarthy two votes short of the magic number needing needed to realize his dream of clinching the speaker s gavel. straight to chief congressional correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. mccarthy won over much of the republican opposition today. he s still short of enough votes to win. how does he get the final two votes he nooesz? right now the top lea
a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane andy harris is not one of them. it s a different individual. in any case, the six are keeping mccarthy two votes short of the magic number needing needed to realize his dream of clinching the speaker s gavel. straight to chief congressional correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. mccarthy won over much of the republican opposition today. he s still short of enough votes
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troops around the towns of misrata and other rebel holdouts in the west of the countrying that the siege of misrata itself must be ended but one of the goals of the cease fire they say must be regime change so this is a conditions-based cease fire coming from the rebels and this is the first time we have heard talk of a cease fire like this so far, carroll. if that stipulation is in the works that regime change, how likely is it that gadhafi s side will agree to a cease fire? reporter: i don t think anyone can realistically expect and certainly not moammar gadhafi to go at the point of a gun. if the language is such that both sides can agree and this is still some ways off, then both sides can agree a language for deescalating the military conflict for resolving the differences that there is