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The first round of votes, he plans to fight to until the very end. he confidently told reporters on tuesday, quote, at the end of the day, we will get there. joining me right now, ali roth, up msnbc capitol hill correspondent. ali, lets talk about it, the latest you are hearing on whether mccarthy will end up with enough votes to secure the speakership. also, who could be running against him? >> yeah, lindsey, good morning. kevin mccarthy stuck it right in the middle of this very high stakes tug...

0 inflation. >> really? wow. >> and add that to the people who are complaining about his policies, its what, 65%? >> yes. >> two-thirds. >> done. >> when you said wave, i thought beach and got kind of excited. 119 days to the midterm elections, we are counting. right now, "america reports." >> harris, thank you. welcome to fox news special coverage of the january 6th committee hearings. lawmakers are set to hold their seventh public hearing in just a moment now, the focus is going to be on forme...

Spoiler alert. whether mccarthy meant that or not, having someone behind him all the time to remind him that trump should be exiled. did not help. >> [inaudible] . >> yes he should. >> [inaudible] and the extent in which he said on january 6th, i dont believe he should be playing a role in the future of the party of the country. >> on that i note, thank you very much. >> you can sort of see his sole leave his body. cheneys continued to be -- house republicans held another vote to remove cheney f...

His voluntary cooperation. they want to meet with him, want him to turn over documents. he put out a statement last night saying he is not planning to cooperate, citing a couple reasons. one, he said this was an illegitimate investigation. two, he said he has nothing relevant to offer the committee. but both claims are disingenuous at best. on the first one, whether or not this is legitimate, nancy pelosi vetoed some of mccarthys picks for the committee. it wasnt precedent bud that was well with...

To ignore donald trumps attempts to overthrow the government. but mccarthy wanted to cover things up into trumps bidding. when it came time to investigate the insurrection, he decided to separate. she holds the power and now has the last laugh. our well see if its the last one. he -- after mccarthy refused to cooperate today, cheney said this. >> we know that leader mccarthy was proceeding with the president to tell people to go home and police officers and others are being beaten here at the ca...

-- as weve seen that happen, we havent seen subpoenas for that kind of thing. how do you think about it? >> well, the last time this came up was the russia investigation triggered by nunes. there were two people question for information. one democrat, one republican. they both said. yes they did their due to the. but now mark meadows -- hes refusing to do his duty. we have certain remedies. potentially with mccarthy, with perry, with jordan. with house members where we dont have a steve bannon o...

Information bears directly on president trumps state of mind during the january 6th attack as the violence was under way. so he is somebody who is a firsthand witness here who spoke with the president, who argued with the president. hes a leader, a republican leader in the congress. and they believe that his testimony is hugely important to them to say, okay, what was the presidents state of mind? now, obviously, theres a privilege issue here because he was talking to the president. the presiden...

Trumps first impeachment. he joins me today. why is it so important to talk to congressman mccarthy? >> well mccarthy, by his own a mission. was talking to the president on january six. as jaime said, trying to get the president to intervene and stop the violence. and he did nothing for such a long time. mccarthy has said, sometimes, what he said in that conversation is -- he has really said with the presidents response was. of course, its vital to know with the presidents actions were, was they...

Mechanism. there is no criminal penalty for failing to abide by it. we believe that presidents and senior staff will act in good faith. when you dont, you see the problem it generates. >> donald trump introduced the act, to me, way late in the idea that the expectation that people lacked in good faith. this should be the final piece of evidence that when you pass a law like that you better have an enforcement mechanism, because donald trump has proven you dont have one, you can literally blow ri...

The moderates, theyre the majority makers, the ones who are responsible, republicans hope, for delivering the majority to republicans next year. but the marjorie taylor greens of the conference say they have a lot of power, they know they have a lot of power when it comes to whether mccarthy will be speaker or not and theyre starting to flex the muscles. thats the dynamic were starting to see play out in the republican conference. >> if only that flexing did not require speaking ill of fellow la...