. first, we are now on night thre of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news i can confirm that major negotiations have been going on all day behind the scenes well these votes were taking place today. with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. i can report that at this hour of document is being put together that will go a long wa to settling differences. will it get kevin to 218? we won t know until probably sometime tomorrow or monday. if anything it would probably b a couple of votes short, but progress is real tonight at thi hour. no doubt you the american peopl are being patient, but the patients is wearing thin. the vote totals remain unchange for three straight days for a 200 publicans supporting mc carthy 20 supporting somebody else in the past 24 hours might kevin mccarthy has made several additional assurances to the holdouts, thi is before these meetings today including eight new one-vote threshold for motion to vacat
including eight new one-vote threshold for motion to vacate, in other words one republican can force of both to ask the speaker if he doesn t keep his promises and mccarthy also agreed to add freedom caucus members to the all important rules committee and committed t standalone votes for each of th 12 appropriations appropriation bills as well as a vote on term limits for members of congress. again, look at your screen, mc carthy has already laid out his commitments to america, it on paper, he signed his name, that is a promise and submit, he s given detailed promises on the economy including less government spending. fewer regulations, domestic energy production, protecting against china surrounding our supply chain issues, also promises related to foreign policy, border security, ending the biden catch and release and bringing back the successful trump policies on the border. funding the police, yes, that s
committee process. gary palmer s proposal to cap spending on suspension bills, scott per s proposal for additional conference meetings ahead of key votes. the proposal on standalone appropriations bills, and a big proposal limiting for suspensio waivers from perry jim rice proposal to keep cosponsors amendment in order, a firm 70 t hour publication of bills befor calling for great and into remote participation in committee work by members of congress. gate let me be clear, kevin mc carthy is the odds on favorite to become speaker, now some members have stated that they will not vote for mc carthy no matter what, these quotes never kevin s whatever you want to call them, they nip they don t have a plan to install another speaker as a matter of fact almost every day they nominate somebody else, there is no with the motion to vacate and all these other concessions and complete agreement on the agenda as it relates to investigations, his
by generate 13, a week from tomorrow, the staffers don t ge paid, the members will always get paid, but the staffers want there are some real-life consequences around the corner if this doesn t get resolved in the next week. we will see what happens. rice the former head chairman o the rnc. i know you ve been through a number of these battles, where do you see this one headed? i don t disagree with a lot of let kellyanne s. the one thing i would point out is one of the reasons we didn t do as well in the midterms is that while 48 percent of the public is on our side, 48 percent is on the democrat side, there is 4 percent and th middle and they don t believe a thing we are saying. what they are watching right no is a total incomplete clown sho and it is happening day in and day out. this group of 20, and you just read them out, all the rules that they got in place, the motion to vacate on one vote. 70 to hours to read the role
read the bill, all good stuff, term limits, you name it. they got everything and my question is will where are the votes? the second thing is what about the 201 people that have been loyal to kevin mccarthy. what rules committees have they gotten onto. at some point this has got to end. the one upside is that if we look at kevin mccarthy. clapping for all of the people that are being nominated to run against him and get 20 votes. i have listened to these interviews for three days, listening to these groups group of 20 complain about the fact that nancy pelosi, she got rid of that motion to vacate. kevin mccarthy gave you motion to vacate with one person. nancy pelosi without motion to