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measures ahead of his visit to el paso this weekend. before he travels, it appears the needs to study up on specifics. >> we're going to have to use title nine -- title eight -- am i right? >> we begin in washington where 11 rounds of votes over three days, the house of representativeses have failed to elect a speaker. a deal might be coming to move more support to kevin mccarthy. kevin cork is live in d.c. with the latest on this. good evening, kevin. >> the house has gavelled out tonight and will come back again friday at noon. as it stands, the majority of republicans, some 200 of...

plus we will speak with the new secretary of transportation pete buttigieg live in this show in a bit. but, first, breaking tonight, just moments ago it has been more than 100 years since we have seen this moment on capitol hill. more than nine ballots for speaker of the house and just now after a tenth vote has just wrapped up. we still don't have a house speaker. the growing question now is who will blink first? we're in the third day day of the republican battle over this job. former minority leader kevin mccarthy still does not have enough support to get to the magic number and t...

Pete buttigieg blaming the debacle on southwest airlines, saying it could have been worse if not for the transportation department. >> we made a ton of progress since this summer. the evidence is we had an epic storm hit the united states. within a few days, almost all of the airlines had recovered. as a matter of fact, every one recovered but one. southwest -- southwest airlines. they failed to invest in the iit systems they needed. >> and the ceo of southwest giving the update saying the airline is working on upgrades in order to restore the trust of customers and their employees. it will ta...

Debacle at the holidays. >> let's be clear we have made a ton of progress since this summer. the evidence of that we had a epic storm hit the united states and within a few days almost all of the airlines had recovered. as a matter of fact, every airline recovered except for one. >> bret: southwest. >> southwest airlines, that's right. they failed to invest in the kind of i.t. systems that they needed and made a number of other operational mistakes. >> bret: was the d.o.t. aware of southwest airlines antiquated system for scheduling prior to christmas. >> i don't run southwest airlines. >> bre...