we re now about an hour away from the house reconvening and hopes to vote immediately or eventually will make him the next speaker of the house. spending the night trying to twist these arms belonging to the six hard right republicans that you see on the screen. it was so close, that absent members some of them came out of surgery or other medical provide tour procedures making they are way to the chamber. all of this has extra resonance. manu, so, we talked to you in the last hour, it seems to change over the hour, what s the latest. reporter: there s still growing confidence that they will get the vote. the longest speaker s race that we ve seen since the mid-18 hundreds. but, they believe they ve gotten there. the question will ultimately be on which members ultimately flip. you showed the six on your screen, some of those, they will need all members come and vote for a specific candidate, they will need four of those six. but, there are other strategies now being disc
donald trump. the panel also playing harrowing never-before-seen footage of congressional leaders sheltering from the mob during during the attack. also tonight the u.s. supreme court deals another legal blow to trump s defense in the mar-a-lago investigation, rejecting his plea to intervene in the fight over classified documents seized by the fbi. plus, a gut punch for the families of the parkland school massacre victims. a florida jury recommends gunman nikolas cruz not receive the death penalty and instead spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s dive straight into the very dramatic developments up on capitol hill today. former president donald trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6th select committee. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju has a closer look at all the latest news from today s hearing. those in favor
Rules committee that dictates how the house is govern, how amendments are structured, how bills come to the floor, a very influential committee. also a major concession on a big policy issue, raising the national debt limit. mccarthy has agreed to pair any debt ceiling increase with spending cuts, something that had been demanded by a number of conservatives. that is a red line for the white house and senate democrats. so, jake, right now those issues will play out in the weeks ahead. but mccarthy to make that deal in order to get the votes to become speaker. all right, manu, thanks so much. with me right now kaitlan collins, abby philip, dana bash and jamie gangel. matt gaetz just a few minutes ago on maga media was talking about how he was excited, he was encouraged, he was referring to kevin mccarthy as speaker designate mccarthy which is certainly a promotion from what he was calling him a day or two
Testimony. after a 17-month investigation, and more than 1,000 witnesses, the january 6th committee, just last month, announced criminal referrals to the u.s. department of justice. we have gone where the facts and the law lead us and inescapably, they lead us here. reporter: the committee referred donald trump to the doj for potential charges related to four crimes, assisting or aiding an insurrection, and conspiracy to make false statements. he is unfit for any office. a criminal referral was also made for trump s lawyer, jon eastman, who could face are charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, eastman said the referral carried little weight because it was a product of a partisan process. two years it has been. joining us, senior law
Locked in, it is like watching someone burn down their own house because the flames excite them. how we get here after what we went through on january 6th two years ago is just astonishing to me. do you think america is safer than it was two years ago? i want to say that i m confident that we are, but, i m not sure to be perfectly honest. in the work that s been done by the committee and the department of justice and the fbi, the biggest gap for me is that we still haven t answered fundamental questions about how our law enforcement community handled what led up to what happened on january 6th. the