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series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries toda...

to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. >> yeah. >> maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. >> i agree. >> this is unsustainable. >> yeah. >> this republican party is unsustainable. >> were going to explain that more because theres different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing p...

Six congressman-elect cloud, are you trying to get those six to come over, number one. and, number two, what specific concession are you most happy about? >> well, i will say this, first of all. i mean, the six that was out there, you know, many of them really have vocal at the beginning creating negotiating space so to speak for us to be able to push some of these reforms. i hope people recognize the work that was done there as well. as well as everybody else who -- so many people who havent se...

Ends up happening in terms of his ability, his negotiating space, his ability to cut a deal with the democrats. >> you know, we always hear, jonathan, that mitch mcconnell, whatever he does, when people criticize him, youll hear someone say, well, he is only following where his conference is. mitch has been supportive of the talks and seems to be supportive of the outlines of this. does this suggest that even if the majority of the conference isnt with john cornyn, the others negotiating, at lea...

What we have seen is the contour of that price tag that they will be comfortable with, that has come out into public view. we have also heard from our sources that they are starting to get into the contours cant live without all of those puzzle pieces are coming together. the last 24 hours have been a lot of movement in the negotiating space, as the white house has gotten much more entrenched, spending top deputies to the hill. the president coming, really putting a finer point on that, emphasiz...

The president is doing all the among liberals hes been negotiating whether public or struggling. private. he is going back and forth. no surprise he continues to in this poll. among moderates in this monmouth and normally you dont get the president involved toward the poll biden barely leading. end to preserve the presidents hes been cleaning up among ability to cut a deal to moderates in other polling and then also this. preserve his negotiating space. the president, this president age. the dem...

President potentially launching an attack, then pulling it back at the last moment, saying he feared a loss of life of about 150 iranians, was that a wise move to open up some negotiating space? what message did tehran take from that? >> its important for the united states, the message that tehran takes from that is they can see it as a form of weakness but as long as the united states maintains these extreme sanctions on iran, the extreme pressure on the country economically to make the regime ...

Being called gangsterlike from a visit that i took one time previously. and following that, we continued to have very professional conversations where we tried our best to work together and represent our respective sides. i have every expectation that well be able to continue to do that. >> retired rear admiral john kirby joins our conversation. secretary pompeo is having lunch with the president right now. i suspect this is probably part of the conversation. bluster like this is in the north ko...

And the real reasons to the do with the length of the burn of the rocket motor. missiles, you want to get them up really fast and fairly steep trajectory. out into the atmosphere quickly. youre launching a satellite, youre not in a hurry to get your pay load into space. you have the rocket engine burn for longer and it goes almost straight up whereas a missile has a but morof an arc. thats going to be lost on the media, on washington, on the diplomats and frankly i think it should be eif the nor...

Size of the american economy gives president trump almost all of the leverage here. >> what about globally. obviously we can talk about north america here but on a broader scale, what could this president elect mean for mexico? >> well, you know, were seeing more of the wave of populism and the question is, what form it takes in mexico and taken a left of center candidate. i thought it was sort of interesting that he moved more to the center in this election than he had in sort of previous bids....