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Were just weeks now from republicans retaking control of the house of representatives. and democrats retaining control in the senate. lawmakers though on both sides of the aisle are bracing for new gridlock and a crush of investigations when the new congress begins on january 3rd. melanie zanona is tracking this for us. in the midst of the preparation for the next section, kevin mccarthy is facing questions about his hopes of becoming a new speaker. what are you learning. >> hell have a lot of w...

For everyday americans. >> reporter: paula, this is going to be the first time in nearly two decades, as you noted, that there is going to be new leadership in the house democratic caucus. he is expected to become the minority leader. he will be facing a possible house speaker kevin mccarthy. that is a whole entirely different situation as well. because right now, as it stands, mccarthy does not have the votes he needs to clinch the speakers gavel. there needs to be at least 218 votes in favor o...

Board. >> that being most important. thank you. top of the hour, on this tuesday morning. im erica hill. >> sand im jim sciutto. right now as republicans edge closer to regaining a majority in the house, they only need three more wins currently leading in six races. there is a major vote to decide who will lead the party. that vote just hours from now. for the current gop leader kevin mccarthy, his road to speaker of the house got a little bit more rocky overnight after the freedom caucus memb...

Investigations is going to be problematic for them, they also very much believe that republicans are going to overreach, and that in ove overreaching that the american public is going to see republicans not focusing on inflation and the economy and issues that matter to them, but instead focusing on these investigations, many of which are borne out of personal or travel grievances. >> help me with the context. i dont know if we know the answer. there are always tribes within the tribes. nancy pe...

You think theres a real challenge to mcconnell? >> im not sure how many people would qualify as a lot. its certainly clear that mcconnell has a majority of his conference. i would tell anybody who is thinking about challenging mitch mcconnell, youve got three facts in life, death, taxes and you aint beating mitch mcconnell. hell be re-elected party leader for sure. >> back to the house for a second. if its not andy bigs who would offer a true competitive race against kevin mccarthy, does anybody...

Really an amazingly slim majority. now, hes been negotiating, mcconnell has been negotiating, im sorry, mccarthy has been negotiating over the weekend with these conservatives. theres a leadership election on tuesday for house republicans. thats just the first step. and the speaker has to be approved on that house floor on january 3rd. this is different from what mcconnell faces. hes going to have -- mccarthy is going to face a whole sort of amendments. theres conservatives, and this is hard rig...

As we heard about in the very first hearing. were talking about giuliani and powell and flynn. they have trumps ear. less than an hour after the meeting trump tweets outgoing to be wild. and raskin and the committee are going to make the case that it was pivotal. people changed their plans, et cetera, to follow the lead of their president. so it leads into the narrative that hutchinson unveiled what so explosively last week that trump wasnt simply a bystander with respect to the violence. he, a,...

0 inflation. >> really? wow. >> and add that to the people who are complaining about his policies, its what, 65%? >> yes. >> two-thirds. >> done. >> when you said wave, i thought beach and got kind of excited. 119 days to the midterm elections, we are counting. right now, "america reports." >> harris, thank you. welcome to fox news special coverage of the january 6th committee hearings. lawmakers are set to hold their seventh public hearing in just a moment now, the focus is going to be on forme...

The big headlines right now come frg the committee investigating the attack in the capitol on january 6th, raising the stakes really. sending unprecedented subpoena fo their lawmakers who have refused to say what they know. kevin mccarthy and four big republican names in the committee site. mo brooks, jim jordan, andy bigs, scott perry. so far nobody is saying whether they will comply. the committee is running out of time to get answers from them and their first public hearing. the chairman benn...

Committee, what theyre doing. they have now asked for three congressmen. they need information from these guys. >> the most interesting new revelation is this one, representative andy bigs, he was involved in talks about potential presidential pardons for people relating january 6th. why might someone be interested in a pardon, one might ask. the thing is the committee has decided, its made clear, theyre not going to be subpoenaing fellow members, that would probably include these three. unless ...