kevin mccarthy won the support of his conference to be leader again today. mccarthy still faces a rocky road to possibly becoming house speaker similar as how mitch mcconnell will face a challenger to his role as senate majority leader. first, we want to check in on where the vote stands in the house. john, what s the latest? the republicans are very, very close to taking the majority in the house. right now they have 216 seats we ve called for them. the democrats are at 205. we ve actually called a couple of races in the last few hours, anderson. the democrats picked up new mexico s second congressional district. actually flipping this. yvette harrell was the republican incumbent. she has lost to gab brael vazquez. but out in california is where the action is. a little while ago we called this race right here. this is california s let me get all the way in there. california s 45th congressional district, michelle steele. the republican incumbent has
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report, refugees were noty screened or vetted properly. either. and that includes this nextf shocking story out of new mexico. coafghan refugee shah mahmood salem has just beenns accused of committing sex crimes against a 12 year sax crimes against a 12 year old boy.xt according to court documents, scilab sat next too th the victm anilab sat next too th the victm and started touching him when the victim tried to get away. he says sellar punched purge hie the face twice. the victim ran and tried to hide in the bathroom, buthroom, scilab followed him, lockede the door and started kissing him and tried to force the 12 1e year old boy to touch. g me joining me now is new mexicoo congresswoman yvette harrell. congresswoman, this came almosta a year to the day that a female soldier at fort bliss in new mexico was attacked by a group of afghan men . now, how did that not set offhoi alarm bells? having right. and thank you so much forere on having me. and you re exactlyr show right.o