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>> i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. >> i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. >> the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: its over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasnt a national nightmare, i mean, it wasnt that long in the schem...

but at what price? he made a whole lot of concessions and it darn near came to blows. more on that later. just how did things unfold the way they did on that crucial 15th ballot, and how did mccarthy forces get those 6 never kevin members to end up voting present rather than against mccarthy? pennsylvania republican scott perry was a no vote on mccarthy too, but with he changed his mind a few voting rounds earlier. why then? well ask him, because perry is here now. and so is texas cong...

did that. that during the 14th about it last night as gates was an opponent of mr. mccarthy. lawmakers you can see stepping in to prevent a scuffle on the floor of the house. we will ask washington examiner if that might be a preview of more inviting to come and they wondered 18th congress, hello everyone this is foxs live i am eric shawn. hi arthel. arthel: hi everyone i am arthel neville but two other major stories we are following this hour, president biden prepares to visit the sou...

committed. these are radical left lunatics. they lose documents, they planted documents. you know what that is? lets throw a couple of nice documents in there. >> coming up in a moment, ill talk to january six committee member, congresswoman zoe lofgren. about what we can expect at this weeks hearing. also this hour, embattled georgia candidate herschel walker calling in some big gop guns to help save him and his senate race. we look at the republican effort to turn a blind eye to the ...

tonight on "the reidout" -- >> we have got to get to proceedings. >> there has to be somewhere we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function and that we can elect a president of the united states. >> its been exactly two years since the january 6th insurrection. and watching nancy pelosis leadership in a crisis is a stark contrast to how we currently have no speaker of the house at all. and while kevin mccarthy ma...

won the week two. all in with chris hayes starts now. l in with chris hayes starts now. >> good evening from new york. im chris. hayes i want to get ahead of the story. it appears this long week may be coming to a close and more ways than one. if grading on a curve, strong curve, would be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy had his best day yet today. i should say he still lost two more rounds of votes. he did manage to win over most of his detractors, including some previous hard-line...

good evening. im erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of "outfront" tonight in the closing stretch of this extremely consequential election with only two days to go and control of the u.s. congress literally hanging in the balance. the biggest names from both parties are out in full force with the candidates on this sunday in these final hours. in florida the former president trump headlining a rally for marco rubio who is facing of course the democrat val demings there. >> youre...

will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the january 6th, 2024 -- thats a pretty -- i dont know if i would bet for him to -- last a year? >> i take that that in the opposite. >> i think i probably would, yes. -- >> given the fact that, in an hour, we are going to have the 14th vote, i mean -- im not a betting lady but have a good weekend, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are now just one hour away from the house of representatives coming back to the sessio...

theyve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. >> and indeed, they wont have been -- i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delaye...

of this vote. and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of the history lesson here? compare this to any other time in modern history? >> any other time in modern history there is none, because the last time the speakers vote went past one ballots was 1823. but, we will come back to this board. but to put you in somes perspective what the history of this is. youre looking at here, this is every speak...