everybody. i m lindsey riser in for katy tur in new york city. the big news today, the potentially historic battle surrounding house republican leadership and the growing resistance to kevin mccarthy, as he scrambles to find and secure the 218 votes he needs to become the next speaker. despite that, we learned over the weekend that mccarthy has already moved into the speaker suite in the capitol, if he secures the votes, no problem, but if he doesn t, he ll have to move out and that is seeming like more of a possibility by the day. before sunday, the number of republicans openly opposing kevin mccarthy was five but that number has appeared to grow after nine more republicans released a letter saying that mccarthy s concessions up to this point have not been enough to win them over. one of the original five, congressman bob good says the plan is to deny kevin mccarthy the votes he needs and see what happens. what we ll do is we ll block kevin. i suspect there will be 10 or 1
that is norm until the course of doing business when the control of congress changes over but the last time this happened with speaker pelosi, who you will remember had her own battle behind the scenes to line up the votes to be speaker, between democrats winning the majority in 2018 and taking it in 2019, but by the time that vote came to the floor, in 2019, she knew she had the votes, so you know, look, real estate can project some power, can project some authority and look like mccarthy has some momentum but moving out of that office without grasping the strings and becoming speaker could be painful personalfully they re not able to pull it off the next couple of days. and mccarthy is trying to cut some deals with republicans but trying to essentially do the bare min yum to get to 218. do you have any sense of what more he can offer to get the votes he needs? well, the main concession he s made is on this motion to vacate, which is typically
That s not just about inflation this year, and although i m sure it s playing a role, tell us why this happened and what s the driving force behind the surge? a lot of it is labor costs, going back to the first story, people who want to have higher wages, companies say we can t afford to pay you more unless we raise prices so states where min yum wages are going up, you re seeing prices of big mac also going up as well. hope king from axios, thank you so much. we re glad you were here today. still ahead, could russia s actions in ukraine earn moscow a spot with the four other nations that the united states has designated as state-sponsors of terrorism, and the ramifications, way too early is coming back with that story. is coming back with that story ? stick with zyrtec. zyrtec starts working hard at hour one. .and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. zyrtec. muddle no more. before nexium 24hr,