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series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries today. >> we'll come back tonight and i believe at that time we'll have the votes to finish this once an...

in "the faulkner focus." it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect -- they're all elect because they can't be sworn in because they haven't chosen a speaker -- those 20 like jim jordan for the job. jordan supports mccarthy. how will that work out? he said he is not interested in be...

Under speaker kevin mccarthy and many of my friends, embedded in these negotiations, the house oversight committee will return to its original mission of identifying waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in the federal government and holding unelected bureaucrats accountable. >> bret: all right. so, as i mentioned, there were 15, including congressman-elect cloud who flipped their votes from opposition to mccarthy. and there you see them all there. but there are still 6, congressman-elect comer, who are holdouts. and there they are on the screen. how do you all expect to get them to come along...

To be able to move that forward. >> bret: congressman-elect comer, i know you're anxious to start investigations and oversight. and you all will work together on that. on the other side of the aisle, there was some speculation about all these concessions affecting kevin mccarthy's ability to be speaker or his power as speaker. take a listen. >> i'm desperately concerned though with all of the concessions that mccarthy has made to these hardliners, all with the object of giving him the title speaker without the powers to conduct that office. this group can, you know, essentially hold kevin mcca...

With congressman-elect comer. the big backlash as the administration is forcing one state to take down a border barrier. think about that for a second. something that actually stems the tide of migrants illegally coming into the country and the federal government is about to take it down. sports taking a back seat at this point. the power of prayer on live television. >> i want -- i want to pray for damar hamlin right now. >> dan, it is the right thing to do. the latest on the buffalo bills damar hamlin still in critical condition. the family spinning -- speaking out on his fight to stay alive...