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a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on tha ....
ac 360 meantime starts now. and good evening. it is another night of drama and uncertainty in washington tonight. in a little less than two hours the house will reconvene and test congressman s kevin mccarthy confidence he can win the remaining hold outs he need to become speaker elect and avoid this fate for a 14th straight time. a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. after that losing effort which saw him flip 15 no votes over to his side, the house adjourned to allow time to deal with the rest. what exactly got him this far is unclear. we know some of the proposed concessions or at least one he made has many democrats concerned it could lead to a government default. we re in territory unchartered since the 1850s. this is also taking place on the second anniversary of the attack on congress. president biden honoring defenders of democracy in both parties and law enforcement heroes of that day, and remembering those whose lives were lost. ....
his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to break ....
Longest speaker s race since the mid-1800s, kevin mccarthy believes he is finally there. he believes tonight will be the night that he clinches the deal and gets the votes to become speaker. but behind the scenes they are still moving to try to lock down their support. and among the six members who voted against him, they re looking at a strategy to try to get him the votes. one of the things they are looking at is trying to convince some of those members to vote present. that is important because that would reduce the threshold. right now it would require 218 votes, that would be the majority of the house, to be elected speaker. but if someone votes present, that lowers what would constitute the winning number. it could go down to 217 it. could go down to 216 depending on the number of members that are looking to vote present. so there are discussions. we re getting up to three members a vote present. that seems to be on the table. that is a serious discussion at the moment. but the ....