mccarthy. the current republican leader has sent the new proposal to his colleagues to try to overcome significant resistance to his ascension. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill tonight. hello, chad. the math. there are at least five g.o.p. members who oppose mccarthy for speaker and, perhaps, more. kevin doesn t have the votes. what we ll do, we ll block kevin. there will be 10 to 15 members vote against him on the first ballot tomorrow that will vote for andy biggs. mccarthy can only lose four votes and still prevail. mccarthy is desperately making concessions. do you think the rules package you released last night has moved any votes to yes. yes. and what will you do if you don t have 218 on the first ballot? mccarthy finally agreed to one demand. he would lower the bar to hold a new confidence vote for speaker if members don t think he s doing a good job. but that didn t satisfy mccarthy detractors. there is nothing
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
kevin mccarthy keeps making concessions and republican insurgents say not enough and humiliating mccarthy by denying him the gavel. and the 19-year-old who attacked three new york police officers with a machete new years eve wanted to become a taliban martyr. and this from one of donald trump s most trusted aides, we all look like domestic terrorists now. revealing a realtime reaction from senators and others as the mob laid siege of the united states capitol. and who s on first among house republicans, except it isn t funny because of the giant issues the country faces as nancy pelosi and democrats yield to the new and narrow gop majority. today kevin mccarthy s title remains house republican leader. by this time tomorrow his hope is to be the speaker of the house. to wield the gavel, to be second in line to the presidency, but despite years of planning and campaigning for this it very moment, mccarthy is still short votes and even some allies see mccarthy s math pro
griff: i don t think anyone is awake here. it s miami. they don t get up this early. the whole city is asleep. nike i can in nic haven t gone to sleep yet. steve: go to bed early. i got up pretty much every day about #:00. to your point, they probably are asleep. but, look at the sunrise. nicole: beautiful. steve: gorgeous. welcome aboard. it is monday. it is technically a federal holiday. a lot of people have the day off. we have dr. nicole saphier and griff here on the couch. it s great to have you. nicole: glad to be here on this day off. happy to be here. steve: because we had a comp day. nicole: do we? griff: what do we get for that? nicole: to be together. it s the first monday of 2023. bring it in. steve: speaking of the first monday of 2023, do you guys make resolutions or vow to change behavior or something have a hope and aspiration, a goal? nicole: i don t make new year s resolution same thing every year live a happy healthy life. steve:
answers, don t you know it, and everything from the crisis at the southern border, to the economy, to those biden family influence-peddling accusations. the white house last week saying not so fast to the oversight requests submitted before the change of power. but it won t be able to hold them off much longer. just until the new majority can decide on speaker. the g.o.p. is primed to hold the biden administration accountable. you already have the white house coming out, playing political games, saying they are going to slow-walk everything. but what we have seen is really just a continuation of what they have done for the last two years. they are going to do everything they possibly can to stop any request from every committee that is an oversight committee, and they are going to do everything they can to turn the spin machine on to misdirect and show the american people that, oh, look over here, there is something going on, when the reality is they are nefarious things