432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. let s get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. i think you saw we made very good progress. we ll come back tonight and i believe tonight we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. just remind me of what my father always told me. it s not how you start, it s how you finish. we have to finish for the american public. this is now the fifth longest speaker election in house history. mccarthy lacks the votes, however 15 house republicans who oppose mccarthy are now in his camp. i know you re all wondering what changed the vote. i think i can
not good for those getting those wages fell from what was about a 5% clip to a 4.6% clip. i know it s getting gobly gooky here. what it means combined with lower inflation numbers in france and much of the european region and kind of a weak manufacturing report, that was all taken together, mixed many a bottle and maybe the fed doesn t have to go crazy or interest rates won t stay high as long. the run-up we had. that had the first week of the year at a horrific 2022 all up across the board. steve moore with me right now. he doesn t use words like gobly gook because he s learned and well-represented. did the markets get ahead of themselves on this? are they right that jobs are increasing but not as the rate they were? we can handle this hand the fed won t go notice. what do you think? neil, i was on maria
were jermane to the original issue, releasing the january 6th documents. things like that, ending this covid emergency that is causing us to spend billions. these are all good things. they re all in the final agreement. again, it s hammered out and i think they re good for the country. they re very good for the body. i think they are the path that will get mr. mccarthy the speakership. neil: that might be the case. i am wondering, a lot of your colleagues, more moderate colleagues, those not among the 20 or so from the beginning were against mr. mccarthy have said you weakened his hand and weakenthe speakership and you might regret that. what do you say? well, look, i mean the fact of the matter is, we have 435 members, they re all elected. the speaker is the speaker of the house. they re not the only member of the house. again, you know, being able to bring as nancy pelosi did, a 4,400 page bill to the floor, 1.7 trillion with one day to
reality is that you re dealing in a body that has only ten republican vote edge. he had dismissed some of these conservative members in the summer maybe thinking that he would have a much bigger margin in the house. many retrospect, did he botch it? well, look, these conversations have been going on since election day. many were going on before hand. we all agree things need to be reformed in this body. this body needs to be fixed to get back to regular order, to get back to committee, to get back towards a balanced budget. but this is going to be the reality that we face. i mean, there s many of us elected with our priorities, with our constituents priorities like i for one absolutely 100% believe that we have to get to a balanced budget. we re not going to do it on the backs of our troops as we face a rising china that is preparing,