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the greatest political jiu-jitsu move, but abandoning those policies was done. >> laura: will be riveted. i cant wait. im laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. seven weeks before the midterms if you can believe it. the last gasps, thats the focus of . >> hannity: in all seriousness folks, thats all biden speaks, the democrats have so much to be proud of before the midterms. >> 8.3% is the year-over-year number, coming in hotter than expected and hotter than a lot of economists...

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 thats a change from what youve 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. lets go live to capitol hill, things are very flui...

and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. >> we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty dont know what the numbers goin...

>> david scott. >> effries. >> so heres the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime lets bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. >> thats right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because...

>> i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. >> i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. >> the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: its over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasnt a national nightmare, i mean, it wasnt that long in the schem...

but at what price? he made a whole lot of concessions and it darn near came to blows. more on that later. just how did things unfold the way they did on that crucial 15th ballot, and how did mccarthy forces get those 6 never kevin members to end up voting present rather than against mccarthy? pennsylvania republican scott perry was a no vote on mccarthy too, but with he changed his mind a few voting rounds earlier. why then? well ask him, because perry is here now. and so is texas cong...

jeffries and six voting present. welcome to fox news live, im griff jenkins. hello, molly. >> hello, griff, im molly line. the new members of the 118th congress were sworn in and now the house is adjourned until monday. the contentious battle for the votes. >> it carried it the end. at one point it looked like this was not going to a 15th vote. following the 14th vote. congressman mike rogers from alabama had to be physically restrained after attempting to confront representative matt ...

did that. that during the 14th about it last night as gates was an opponent of mr. mccarthy. lawmakers you can see stepping in to prevent a scuffle on the floor of the house. we will ask washington examiner if that might be a preview of more inviting to come and they wondered 18th congress, hello everyone this is foxs live i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi everyone i am arthel neville but two other major stories we are following this hour, president biden prepares to visit the sou...

up a dramatic night and early morning on capitol hill. >> reporter: out took 14 failed votes, intense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in a final tally that took place well after mid might. it ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing to ovation. >> from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought wed get up here. ing....

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