majority. democrats have a steeper hill to climb, they need 15 more wins to get to 218. the simple math says republicans are closer knocking at the door of a speaker ship. let s look at republicans clearly have the edge three. a three-seat majority. not what they wanted and expected but majority is still majority. what will happen from here? let s go back to this. we leave these numbers up. this is the cement. the cement dried on these races. 211 republicans. 203. republican haves a cleaner path. we need to emphasize that. republicans have an easier path to 218 and this but is getting more interesting. let s walk through. can democrats get there? well, let s look at this. number one two likely. republicans have actually conceded in the races but some of these happened before. concessions and votes come in and get clipped. we re being conservative here. you re at 203.
reconciliation is weeks away but certainly not ready by thursday. is it possible she has some sort of framework by thursday that puts progressives minds at ease. yes, it s possible that happens. joe biden needs to get involved in that. she can t do that on her own. it involves with a bunch of people in the house. unless she either has the votes or believes she will have the votes. i am this is the highest wire of legislative act in nancy pelosi s speaker-ship. i have been covering her pretty much since 2009. i do believe that this is difficult and for a few reasons. progressives are looking at manchin and sinema thinking why
would paul ryan want the job? he s mulling it over with his family in wisconsin. they are one of the big reasons he does not want the job but also the political scars that accompany any speaker ship that make the jobless appealing. something newt gingrich warned him about. i think paul should be very cautious. he s the most prestigious member with the best future. he s still very young. it s easy to get 218 on the first vote and then you get to keeping the government open through a continuing resolution and then you get to the debt ceiling and if you re not careful by christmas you resemble john boehner. now, there had been some talk about newt gingrich himself possibly being brought in to fill the leadership vacuum but today gingrich called it quote totally i m plausible. we all wait for the congressman s decision. thank you. eric, members of the house select committee on benghazi are speaking out following
a week and a half ago with the line that americans psychologically they are not strong enough they don t have the courage they are driven by fear. this is the same lek terror rat that gave him a mandate. he said he changed and disappointed people to voted for him. you can t say the electorate is somehow not worthy of you now. he attacked the tea party, the opponents, he i tacked his own base news and attacked everybody. the reason is what he is doing is proving he is not the man he s disappointing people. what he is doing he is hurting himself and the country. he should be giving people the vision. that s what he elected him for. that s no vision. brian beaird says it s been authoritarian and closed leadership here. the speculation is she loses her speaker ship she and other democrats veil. are they going to walk out, sore
with nancy pelosi over 90% of the time. is nancy pelosi right over 90% of the time that s how often chris carney voted with her. chris carney staggering debt here sending jobs to china who is he working for. megyn: is pelosi becoming a tkrog on the democrats? richard socarides is a former special assistant to president clinton and a strategist. he is one who says you do not mess with nancy pelosi. something i m going to guess, richard, a gentleman by the name of roy herron who is running to replace john tanner out in tennessee just found out the hard way. he says he s a democrat he came out and said he would not vote for nancy pelosi as house speaker if she maintained her speaker ship, and low and behold the next day the democratic national campaign committee yanked his funding. he says there was no coincidence. reporter: i m sure it s a coincidence and i think it s not her fault. the fact that she s become this