plus we will speak with the new secretary of transportation pete buttigieg live in this show in a bit. but, first, breaking tonight, just moments ago it has been more than 100 years since we have seen this moment on capitol hill. more than nine ballots for speaker of the house and just now after a tenth vote has just wrapped up. we still don t have a house speaker. the growing question now is who will blink first? we re in the third day day of the republican battle over this job. former minority leader kevin mccarthy still does not have enough support to get to the magic number and the top spot. about 20 opponents are refusing to buckle so far as negotiations continue behind the scenes vote after vote. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest tonight live from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, kevin mccarthy expected to move the meter today. it never happened, despite concessions. the house is no closer to electing a speaker than when it started
mind is, if no one s raising questions about why secretary esper and his wife led that delegation, as well they should have why is did any different when it s me and my husband? bret: understood. the last thing i wanted to ask you is that tonight secretary rather senator debbie stabenow from michigan announced she is not going to run in 2024. you are now a resident of michigan. you have put out a statement today that you will not run for that seated; is that correct. right now i m completely focused on the job that i have for some of the reasons we talked about it s demanding job but also in my view the best job in this city and the best job in the federal government and proud to be doing that. bret: rule out runnings for any elected office in 24. i m completely focused on doing this job and i m not planning to run for anything. bret: we wanted to give you the opportunity to directly answer some of these critics and they are talking about it. we appreciate you coming on an
against each other and worsening conditions. our next guest secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg participated in white house public meeting with members of the biden administration and members of the trucking industry today. including labor leaders. secretary buttigieg helps with what the administration calls a trucking action plan, to strengthen americans trucking them joining us now is pete buttigieg. thank you so much for joining us tonight secretary. thank you for having me on. i would like to begin with the breaking news of this hour, which is the statement from president biden tonight about the build back better act. he said, just describing his discussions with senator manchin, senator manchin has reiterated his support for build back better funding at the level of the framework plan i announced in september. he said, we will advance this work together over the days and