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the race for president. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he s fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. ....
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, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters ....
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 and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have ....
another night for the history books, with only one thing for sure. the 11th vote was not the charm tonight for kevin mccarthy s bid to become speaker of the house. no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. and with that, the 11th rejection done with about three hours shy of the 11th hour in the third day of his failure to become speaker. the call went up to end the proceedings until noon tomorrow. the question is on the motion that the house stands adjourned until noon tomorrow. those in favor say aye those aye! those opposed, no. no! in the opinion of the chair, the no s have it. the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. the motion to adjourn prevailed. the day ended without kevin mccarthy holding a single holdout. kevin mccarthy stil ....
become speaker of the house. no no many having received the majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. he and, with that, the 11th rejection, within three hours shy of the 11th hour of the third day of his failure. the speaker called went up to end the proceedings tomorrow. the question is on the motion that the house stands adjourned, until noon tomorrow. those in favor say aye those opposed no. [screaming] [screaming] [crow] those in favor of a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number members will record their vote by electronic device. well the counting, instantly they ended without congressman mccarthy having won a single hold out despite more interesting moments, the cnn manu raju spoke with him a short time ago, he told us. yeah, kevin mccarthy still told us there is the path of the speakership despite losing 11 times, despite losing the first multiple ballot speaker election occur in a century and seeing this many ....