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the greatest political jiu-jitsu move, but abandoning those policies was done. >> laura: will be riveted. i can't wait. i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. seven weeks before the midterms if you can believe it. the last gasps, that's the focus of . >> hannity: in all seriousness folks, that's all biden speaks, the democrats have so much to be proud of before the midterms. >> 8.3% is the year-over-year number, coming in hotter than expected and hotter than a lot of economists and people on this panel had thought. >> since the middle of last year, we've seen that inflati...

covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that's a change from what you've heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let's go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week...

and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. >> we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don't know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they...

>> david scott. >> effries. >> so here's the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime let's bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. >> that's right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually a...

>> 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: it's over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasn't a national nightmare, i mean, it wasn't that long in the scheme of things, a few days, it just seemed like a few centuries, but it is over. kevin mccarthy at 1...