This is the Ingraham Angle from washington tonight. We are hours two hours away from what we hope is President Bidens last state of the union address. Larry kudlow is in the house, Vivek Ramaswamy, and so many more. First, spinning themselves dizzy, that is the focus of tonights angle state of the union, state of the Union Speeches rarely memorable no. Real evidence that they help turn things down for flailing presidencies. Nonetheless brians advisers are doing their best to propose ideas. I think the top line should be the Inflation Reduction Act reduced inflation. Good policy makes good politics, right . And he has good policy. Jobs, wages, everything going in the right direction economically. The stock market is booming. Blockbuster job report after blockbuster job report. I dont think you guys need me. I was just listening to the commentary. [laughter] i dont think you guys need me this morning. Laura of course kjp is right. Although i might add that they do her job better than she
live coverage. and aim jake tapper in washington. the united states still without a house speaker this hour and there is no sign that republicans are going to be able to settle on one any time soon. kevin mccarthy is going to come up short a fourth time. that s the vote we re watching right now. the hard-line opposition of about 20 rebels backing congressman byron donalds of florida this go-around. this vote is playing out as we re seeing quite an interesting split screen moment on the left side of your screen. you see senator senator minority leader mitch mcconnell at an event in kentucky with president biden there talking about the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was only passed because of democrats and republicans working together and now you see on the screen a place where bipartisanship is not happening, in fact, barely partisanship when it comes to republicans. cnn is tracking everything as it happens vote by vote. let s start with lauren fox. kevin mccarthy s a
okay, they want bridges built. they want if it s a ream deal republicans to talk to democrats and cut a deal and mitch mcconnell is being a governing conservative. congressman davis, you just talked to like mitch mcconnell is a governing conservative. we want to get things done. what s the best deal we can get? these 20 hold-outs are not governing anything. they are rabble rousers. we already had one the house of representatives has 435 members. there is one vacancy because of a death. that s a democratic congressman from virginia. congresswoman victoria spartz, she s a republican, from indiana who had been supporting mccarthy. she now brings the threshold down from 218 takes two. takes two votes because congressman mceachin is already missing so he s missing because he passed away. that means there are 433. so with the vacancy and the present vote for every two not voting for a candidate by name, you take it down one. right. so now it s a 217
do something about it? what do you want? how do we fix this? we are embarrassed. we are making a mockery of our new majority. let s fix this. the question is, are they interested in fixing it because so far their strategy has been, kevin mccarthy step as side. then maybe we can talk. and how long could they hold that out? to the split screen moment, look, senators have to run statewide to dane that s point. most of these house members especially these 20 holeouts go home to safe republican districts. they don t care because they re not politically worried and believe they can go home and sell what they re doing and get re-elected in two years. mitch mcconnell is still furious, it s the daytime, but i could use stronger language. he blames donald trump for meddling in republican primaries but looking at the next election and thinking, what did the american people just vote for? they elected a lot of center right republicans, they rejected a lot of trump crazy republican. they rejected
be sort of political suicide among republicans, and yet meaning he has played his cards as well as he can, given the conference that he is trying to lead and yet it is still not enough. you re saying he s so maga but still they don t trust him. exactly. i mean, mitch mcconnell, he gave up. he didn t he hasn t been outwardly critical of donald trump, but donald trump really does not like him and the reason is because mcconnell has said, now, he has a very different job in the senate, i understand very well the difference, but mcconnell has said i m just going to do what i need to do on any given piece of legislation and when it comes to infrastructure he decided, i m going to work across the aisle and get it done and it has made him so unpopular with the republican base. the word i think you re looking for is governing, right?