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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 ....
happening now, breaking news. kevin mccarthy trying to seize the momentum right now in the fight for the speakership. the house is preparing to return to session at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight, after two very dramatic votes saw the republican leader flip more than a dozen hardliner holdouts coming up just short of a majority. the country marks the second anniversary of the january 6th insur re insur insurrection. president biden honoring the defenders of democracy today, including several police officers brutally attacked while holding off the mob at the capitol. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. the momentum in the speaker s race swinging heavily toward house republican leader kevin mccarthy. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us live from capitol hill. i understand you are getting new unders ....
Legislation, holding hearings. reporter: also with no committees in place, the republican majority couldn t start the investigations they ve been agitating for. the less amount of time we have to hold this administration accountable with hunter biden and his laptop, fauci with covid, mayorkas with the poor southern border. reporter: and without a house speaker, there has been no one to be second in line behind the vice president if something disastrous happened to president biden and vice president harris during this stalemate, the presidency would have gone democratic senator patty murray. and today the white house did try to downplay the effect the stalemate has had on national security. wolf? to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, the breaking news. ....
Correct that the house and house leadership had the opportunity to vote to extend the moratorium and there were many, a handful of conservative democrats in the house that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote. we have to really just call a spade a spade. we cannot in good faith blame the republican party when house democrats have the majority. steve: and speaker pelosi adjourned for recess on friday before the moratorium ran out and blamed the republicans but it s clearly the democrat because the democrats who hold the majority couldn t figure out what to do. pete: there are enough sensible democrats who say you can t just continue extending eviction bans forever there are landlords out there. there is rent to be paid there sun employment money that s out there. and ultd 3459ly what it is it is socialist democrats who want those covid protocols. steve: more, more, more. ainsley: we watched her interview and we re going to play a clip of this. you might want to set thi ....
We felt that the crown prosecution service are going to go. for it to be the tender fair majority couldn t make a decision with the 3 frustration. in my opinion you know there won t be a day when when the the flame goes i was on the fight disappearance if there is still a battle to be able to end we ll be we ll be here together facing it s what s the message. it s a bit of a militant city socialists. and they don t like being told what to do or have opposable off. it to pick on the wrong so i think. we have. said to. ....