Steering Committee Process News Today

a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthys 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 were following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way...

. first, we are now on night thre of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news i can confirm that major negotiations have been going on all day behind the scenes well these votes were taking place today. with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. i can report that at this hour of document is being put together that will go a long wa to settling differences. will it get kevin to 218? we wont know until probably sometime tomorrow or monday. i...

lets hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin t...

live coverage. >> and aim jake tapper in washington. the united states still without a house speaker this hour and there is no sign that republicans are going to be able to settle on one any time soon. kevin mccarthy is going to come up short a fourth time. thats the vote were watching right now. the hard-line opposition of about 20 rebels backing congressman byron donalds of florida this go-around. this vote is playing out as were seeing quite an interesting split screen moment on the...

house republicans as was the indication 100 years ago are denying the man who thought he would be speaker in this case, kevin mccarthy, the necessary votes to win the speakers gavel. meaning that, right now, the house is completely paralyzed. we do not have a speaker, official members of congress or rules. and the math is frankly, only getting worse for kevin mccarthy. as the process drags out, the total number of republicans not voting for him is going up. the total number of republic...

needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members cant even be sworn in. they dont even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. its a level of dysfunction unseen in modern polit...

Or more of my fellow republicans. [ applause ] right now though we remain divided a majority, an actual majority of the house freedom caucus members do support kevin mccarthy. this summer a unified house freedom caucus started the negotiations with a proposal for new rules. a different way to govern that empowers committees and regular members, we proposed a set of tools could be structured to make trust more verifiable and allow recourse if that trust is ever broken. following the election kevi...