end of every night thank you for making this show possible. we are going to be doing these live shows regularly throughout the year and hopefully you can come join us one night we would love to have you. we are going to get to their questions, have you liked the last word, a new segment? it s pretty depressing when i got a c- this week, that wasn t fun. we re going to to check in with newt gingrich and also be joined by congressman chip roy, leo 2.0 terrell, matt gaetz will be here, lauren boebert will be here and they will be in the hannity hot seat, that s all coming up straight ahead as we continue. they were two holdouts but i start tonight the figures on capitol hill. my sources are now telling me in no with every detail you would want, this week along the battle that we have had, this political battle in our nation s capital is now almost over. kevin mccarthy is now on the verge of becoming the next speaker of the house. he is now really just two votes away from sec
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 are b
What some of these holdouts were doing, these people who were not voting for kevin mccarthy initially, they wanted certain people put onto the rules committee. not individual people by name, but people who are affiliated with different caucuses like the freedom caucus and so on, and also a commitment to have what we call an open rule. so those rules aren t locked down. you request say okay, today it is 85 feet to first base, it s 70 feet to first base and then you vote on that proposal on the floor. otherwise, it just comes from the speaker s office and they lock it down. that dictates how the legislation is on the floor. laura: and, chad, just so again people understand this, and this is the same with a lot of republicans, too, if the speaker didn t want a bill to get to the floor, nancy pelosi, that bill was not going to get to the floor, correct? and that s what these people don t want to happen with the republican speaker. so the speaker s power would be somewhat diminished, corr
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 are back.
hakeem jeffries. green of georgia. mccarthy. laura: all right. well, matt gaetz is back on floor. we re going to go to bret baier who s going to do quick math as to where we are. suspense building on speaker s vote we re on the 14th vote now. what can you tell us. it s like algebra and like chad said it s like math, because you have these numbers shifting depending on how many people are on the floor. you had gaetz now back on the floor. there may be some suspense that he wants to be, when they recall the people who didn t vote the first time that he s the person that votes present and puts mccarthy over, but let s just do the math. assuming that you have ken buck there and hunt, that would be 434 total. the majority then, if you had present votes, three present votes, takes you to 431, so 216