a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on that. you
i am laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. well, here we go again. they will come back and do it all over again a couple of hours. you know exactly what i am talking about because the house voted to adjourn until noon tomorrow, a vote that kevin mccarthy won by a skin of his teeth. and coming back to vote again, because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. it s all right now about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors, so the fact that the motion to adjourn even past, that s a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying that he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he would not commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. wrapped up by tomorrow night? no, i am not putting timeline on it. i think we have progress going on, members talking. i think we have a little movement, so we will see. we will have mor
were, you know, put in exile. that s what they ll have to get to. you ll have the folks. mary miller just miller. let s wait and see, chip roy and if you have scott perry voting yes, you ll have the serious people will now come over to kevin and then you ll have the kind of the clown show for lack of a better phrase, right? the people who are just they re just here for theater, right? if those are the folks still outstanding mccarthy will win. that s i think the key point. that was mary miller. mary miller who had previously been part of the bloc of 20 just flipped her vote. you see this building momentum in terms of flitting the bloc of the 20 who are obstinate against mccarthy. the thing to look at if you don t read the tea leaves of politics every day, the difference if that 20 between the intransigent ones there not in good faith to simply make a stand and show and frankly burn the house down, and the ones who have principled policy differences where they re
of covid-19. yet, as i mentioned earlier, there has not been a single hearing in the oversight committee to deal with potential waste, fraud, or abuse of the covid funds. not a single hearing. and we all know, despite what dr. fauci said, american tax dollars were sent through ecohealth alliance to the wuhan lab in china for gain of function research. but yet dr. fauci hasn t come before congress in the house of representatives. the american people deserve answers on covid-19 and speaker kevin mccarthy has given the republican majority the tools necessary to make that possible. the democrats have spent the past six years investigating a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia. now let me say this loud and clear. the republicans will also investigate a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia as well as china. the american people have a lot of questions for dr. fauci, christopher wray, merrick garland, secretary mayorkas. we can t have those qu
like so many other local election workers in 2020 he was harassed and threatened as he did his job faithfully. he did not bend. he did not bow. he did not yield to the political threats and pressure. he he s so trusted by both political parties that the new democratic governor of pennsylvania, josh shapiro appointed him as pennsylvania s secretary of state, a republican to ensure that the integrity of the election. that s a high compliment. [ applause ] his character and his commitments speak volumes. we the people. that s what we also see in mr. benson. twice elected secretary of state to save the right to vote and have that vote counted fairly. that s what she did in 2020, when she oversaw a record number of michiganders turn out in that election only to find an armed mob an armed mob outside of her home on christmas eve and she and her son were decorating their christmas tree inside, but she refused to back down. she had done her duty. she had kept her oath full of integ