the first round of votes, he plans to fight to until the very end. he confidently told reporters on tuesday, quote, at the end of the day, we will get there. joining me right now, ali roth, up msnbc capitol hill correspondent. ali, let s talk about it, the latest you are hearing on whether mccarthy will end up with enough votes to secure the speakership. also, who could be running against him? yeah, lindsey, good morning. kevin mccarthy stuck it right in the middle of this very high stakes tug of war for the speakership title. remember, 31 house republicans opted not to nominate him for the job. we have around half a dozen house republicans who publicly said they would not support him when the vote finally does come on january 3rd. there are suspicions that more house republicans maybe feeling this way, but don t want to say so publicly until it becomes obvious that mccarthy will be able to ease the necessary 218 vote threshold to be able to