Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you
as soon as he has something, let me know. i know you are just gathering the info right now. spencer: trying to get the latest information just south of hollister. i did hear from two people on the east bay who said they felt a little movement. apparently it sent some shockwaves in that direction. don t have a significant amount of information right now. kristen: i will say some of here at abc7news felt the shaking and we are a good 70 or 80 miles from the epicenter. so it did travel. we did feel it here and the good thing is we are hearing no tsunami warning advisory has been issued, no watch or threat right now, but this is about 4.5 and magnitude. that is beyond the minor range but also not in the large or moderate range, which i think starts with five. but close enough and a lot of people around the bay area have felt that. this is coming in and people are telling us about it. we have the usgs map pulled up. let s take me off so viewers can get a good look at it. you can
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
scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is a special edition of your world. the first of 2023. more on the tax hikes in just a moment. first to chad pergram where the leadership drama is unfolding. chad? edward, it s been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but there s five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. kevin doesn t have the votes. there s more than five people. you ll see that as we go into the election on january 3. there was 36 people that voted against kevin mccarthy on the conference vote. mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. they demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speaker s election in the middle of the congress. he agreed. some members still have reservations. rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. you think the package has moved any votes t