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good evening from washington. i m michael steele in for chris hayes and there s a lot to get to tonight. including some really big developments in the many criminal investigations into donald trump, but i need to start with a question for today s republican party. what the hell is wrong with you? today s house maga republicans took an official party leadership sanctions field trip to visit the january six insurrectionists who they call political prisoners. this is just one step and exposing what s going on, making sure that we have the right information and really listening to our constituents. we hear about the jails regularly when we go back home and the american people are very concerned about some of the folks who are here. so we re listening to them and hear on their behalf. congresswoman, i hate to break it to you, but you don t have the right information. if you think the american people want you to waste your energy on the violent insurrectionists mob. in ....
we should be prepared to be back here doing this same thing when that happens. because especially considering some of the things that mccarthy clearly gave away. i mean in the past they ve been able to do it with democratic help, and mccarthy in theory could do that. but it seems like they ve tried to hold his feet to fire here and say, no, what kevin mccarthy can decide to do is not put it on the floor. without getting into the specifics of all the ugly fights that are going to come, i think the point that you just made and others have made is that this is at large a vision of what we re going to see, possibly, going forward for the next two years in a very chaotic congress. and it has huge consequences. huge consequences for nation, but as we just settle on this moment, we are watching the history being made, because i believe on this 15th ballot kevin mccarthy will finally secure enough votes, whether it s through people voting present or switching votes to him ....
covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that s a change from what you ve heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let s go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters ....
of this vote. and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of the history lesson here? compare this to any other time in modern history? any other time in modern history there is none, because the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballots was 1823. but, we will come back to this board. but to put you in some s perspective what the history of this is. you re looking at here, this is every speakers race in history gone past one ballot. we ll put this past today when there were only 11 ballots. so this is the 15th ballots. right here in history is where the speakers race ranks. is the 15th longest and you can see, there for longer than this were all pre civil war. this is gonna finish well shy of a record of 133. but if it does indeed finish here. 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history. and we haven t seen this go past the first ballot since back in 1923. the ....
and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen thi ....