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Thank you both for being here. tara, i will start with you since you did work on the hill. when you look at these change that mckarkty has apparently agreed to, essentially allowing this group of lets just be clear, people who supported the insurrection and in some cases asked for pardons due to their activities at the time or in other areas, letting them have a one-person threshold to vote no confidence in the speaker and remove him. being able to control the spending bills that come out of the...

They were going to pick-off as many as they could with the concessions and rule changes. >> you reported that several members have made some personal sacrifices just in order to make tonights vote happen. >> extraordinary lengths i would say some of these members have gone to. thats because the attendance has been so key since the margins are so, so slim here. democrats have been doing everything they can to make sure all their members are here and present and voting against mccarthy. and mccart...

Procedure. roger williams wife had a stroke. all these people were lured back into this chaos by these people who committed this treachery. not a single shred of care for human decency. >> and that is the perspective. thats the right thing to bring up right now because ideally all this public service is about to be something bigger than yourself and your personal whim and collection of resentments. thats not where politics is today. kevin mccarthy has tried to triangulate his way to the speakers...

Last hour, some of the lengths to which some members have made to get to this vote tonight. >> attendance has been so important today, because the margins are so slim, theres no room for error, democrats is making sure that every singing member is here to vote against mccarthy and mccarthy allies are making sure that theyre here to vote for mccarthy. it shows you how high stakes they are. leslie stakes who had a new baby just a few days ago. he was hoping to go home, he did, as far as we underst...

Allowed to use -- the people who have the power are those who have absolutely no qualms about doing things that are not within the bounds of any law, any process or procedure. >> the inmates are running the asylum. >> thank you. >> i think its important to remember big picture this is all going to be playing out against the backdrop of a presidential campaign, which is just going to crank up the emotion, the heat, the rhetoric, you know, and to your point, dana, that -- >> lets listen in. >> the...

Executed by hanging earlier this morning. they were convicted in december for allegedly killing a member of the besiege amid protests, a member of irans paramilitary forces. as weve heard from rights groups, from legal representatives, it is believed that the two individual faced torture while in detention, as we have heard with multiple other cases of detained protesters. and also that forced confessions were used against them as evidence in court. there have been huge concerns over the trials....

0 >> now theyre going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. lets listen in. >> gaetz. >> present. >> present. >> he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed -- present votes dont hurt. its at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. lets listen in. gosar v...

Open amendments on amendments that would cut spending on appropriations bills. its been widely reported now by this motion to vacate, which is the procedure for ousting a sitting speaker and the threshold at which a member could force a vote on that. thats been dropped down to one which is what it used to be before democrats took control. that was a big demand that the holdouts had made that was also agreed to. they are making progress there. some things arent never resolved, if theyre working o...

>> so they seem to understand the real distrust and vitriol that is being dispute at mccarthy? are you hearing people say that they agree, or that they do not see the issue? >> it is mixed. of course, there are some people out there that see this as, this is the hill they will die on, obviously, they think they are against mccarthy nomination, but there are many people who are saying we need to move forward, and if we can get some concessions and a deal lets move forward. >> especially on this c...

This list was on this list last night at this time. so nobody moved, over nobody moved to present today. so again, you look at some of the comments of this these folks have made. my colleague bob good from virginia was quoted as saying, you dont ever have for me to question again, im never on kevin mccarthy. so for say that, and everybody else on this list voted for mccarthy, mccarthy is the speaker. it five take that position, then doesnt matter how many of us on this lets vote for mccarthy, he...