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to locate the murder weapon but his dna was reportedly found at the crime scene. here now with the very latest, dan springer is with us. >> jayson, this is a big day here, obviously. this case had apparently stumped investigators for a long time and it appeared to be almost going cold a week ago but then we just got word today that after more than a month and a half and 19,000 tips and dozens of cops from the local state and federal levels working on this case they finally make an arre...

Reporters a little bit earlier. Why do it today . The idea that you why not . Rip the bandaid off here or what . Why not . I think matt has planned this all along. Didnt matter what we transpired. Youre calling his bluff . Yeah. Mccarthy or one of his allies can delay by asking the house to kill gaetzs resolution. But he has little chance of winning that vote without at least some support from democrats. And they have been clear this is the republicans mess to figure out. They wont save him. Tod...

Agrees to with the other two congressional leaders and president biden, is he going to have the votes at all to pass it on the house floor? and what happens to his speakership if he has to lean heavily on democrats, house democrats to pass that? there are a number of house republicans that could very well decide to use that vacate the chair motion. and president trump, former president trump may have injected some difficulty for mccarthy in recent days when he said why not default? lets see what...

For four years. he didnt take the $400,000 per year that he could have and put it in his pocket. he didnt do that. he didnt have the income when he was working as the president of the united states. i want to go back to whats going to happen on tuesday. tuesday is a big day as to whether or not kevin mccarthy can, you know, go through the and get to 218 votes. supposedly, reportedly, going back to vacate the chair, which is a member can allow or force a vote, so that they revisit who is the spea...

I would just caution you, lawrence, that the one thing that has been true since the house gop came back into power in 2011 is nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. were hearing some drip from the freedom caucus members that they do not necessarily like all of the demands that paul ryan placed on them. one specifically, a demand to get rid of the vacate the chair motion. insider baseball, his own spokesperson said its a weapon that speakers cant have that in order to operate effecti...

Have the votes now. >> i think thats right. i think they believe that paul ryan had an outstanding performance tonight in front of his house gop conference colleagues. i would just caution you, lawrence, that the one thing that has been true since the house gop came back into power in 2011 is nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. were hearing some drip from the freedom caucus members that they do not necessarily like all of the demands that paul ryan placed on them. one specificall...

They are this. he says that every house republican has to support him, moderates all of the way to the ultraconservatives, and he says that he wants to make it much harder to bring a so-called vacate the chair motion which is a sort of the no-confidence vote which threatened to oust john boehner and still having young kids at work, and he says, i am not going to be working, and traveling and fund-raising everyday as a modern house speaker is obliged to do, and i want some work/life balance here....