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Already informing members about the next steps theyll be taking after his now expected victory tonight. that includes organizing the house. they are telling their members to expect a vote potentially late in the night to adopt a rules package that will govern how the house will operate. thats actually been part of the negotiations between mccarthy and a number of his holdouts over the past several days, a number of concessions to allow some of these members to have more leverage, essentially wea...

Some of those votes could come from members flipping. if three of them vote present it would bring him down to 216 votes, or if hes able to flip one of those members and a couple vote present he could win with 217 votes. if he is lucky to flip two of them he would get the magic 218 votes without having to flip all of them to present. all of those discussions have been taking place behind the scenes for the last several hours. already theyre preparing for a very late night. theyre preparing for v...

Long to do this process. so, the fact that they whipped this, the fact that they put out what they hope will be a rules package that gets adopted, shows there is a level of confidence that kevin mccarthy is finally getting this done tonight, that we havent seen up until this point. that, when you also take into account that many of these holdouts that have been given giving him a hard time this week are all basically conceding that this is the end. the end is finally here. it looks as though kev...

Uncertain who those hold outs, which ones will actually flip. lauren boebert last hour she was asked about her vote. she said she was still work on some key issues. and also matt gaetz was one of the chief opponents of kevin mccarthy just said moments ago, too, he would not say one or another how we would vote, refusing to say if he would vote present to help kevin mccarthy. that is something also well watch on the house floor. but this all comes after mccarthy has negotiated a round of concessi...

And americans having that divide. >> if they can agree on the rules for a vote package tonight, what happens if they dont have the votes on monday? >> i was texting with a moderate democratic member who thought that the rules package that we are going to see when the details come out this morning is absolutely crazy, and that there are republicans that can be worked on. as i said, im a little bit skeptical that there are, i think there are plenty of crazier republicans on the right in the weeks ...

>> lets bring simone sanders back into this conversation. some of, what will happen next? >> so staff, what is going to happen next. as peter-elect, mccarthy, will come in. he will be part of the speaker -- he will likely speak for a time. previously we were told that people in our and are standing that congress would follow the rules package, and adopt the rules. because right now there are no rules governing congress. and frankly, theres no member of congress until they get sworn in. the repub...

It was not as inspiring, but i was very struck by the point he made about wanting to get to work for the american people. and the things he lifted off that they would do were about investigating the origin of covid-19. he talked about specifically looking into what happened with the pull out from afghanistan. again, not things that were on the minds of voters. >> i was >> i was surprised at the red surprised at the red meat meat he threw that he threw to two conspiracy conspiracy theorist, theor...

And just to give a little history here, there have been 53 men and one woman who have had this position. kevin mccarthy backs the 55th. the first speaker of the house was sworn in april 1st, 1789. so you think about the history of this moment for a guy that was really trying to get this job for a long, long time, tried to get it in 2015. hes the first speaker back-to-back to be from california, obviously nancy pelosi from california. and the question is how hes going to be able to govern. thats ...

Given that, i want to know what he gave up? i want to know what he actually gave up to not give up his bid for speakership, he kept on giving more stuff up and we do not know. we may found out with the rules package, but we dont know what it is. we dont know what he traded to get all these votes. and what they need to come around. >> yeah, there is a verse in the bible, that says, what is it caused the man to gain the whole world and lose his soul. i think thats actually a classic, kevin mccarth...

>> i suspect most likely is that last one. well see what happens. thats how nancy pelosi, who i think is much better, this has managed us in the past as we heard from -- steve kornacki, thank you very much. congressman ted lieu, vice chair of the democratic congress -- he helped draft a resolution to impeach donald trump on this day two years ago. congressman, first let me just start with how you understand this congress the state of american democracy on this, the second anniversary of january ...