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a pivotal vote for house speaker coming up. mccarthy s focused on two holdouts right now. can he change their minds? one congressman who did change his mind is outfront. plus, who are the final holdouts? one of them just arrived in washington for the first time, has never held elected office and was a contestant on shark tank, a successful one. and another top story we re following, chilling new details emerge tonight that tie the suspect in the idaho murders in a really sick way. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are counting down right now until a crucial 14th vote for speaker. and this vote is extremely important. it is a vote that congressman kevin mccarthy and many of his supporters believes will finally give him the gavel after this excruciating week. as of right now the house will reconvene at 10:00 p.m. eastern time, which is when the next vote for speaker of the house is likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on tha ....
432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. let s get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. i think you saw we made very good progress. we ll come back tonight and i believe tonight we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. just remind me of what my father always told me. it s not how you start, it s how you finish. we have to finish for the american public. this is now the fifth longest speaker election in house history. mccarthy lacks the votes, however 15 house republicans who oppose mccarthy are now in his camp. i know you re all wondering what changed the vote. i think ....
Likely to begin. they ll nominate, and we will be off to the races on that. you now know the drill. and mccarthy right now is quickly putting the pieces into place to ensure victory, he hopes. just today he was able to flip the 15 holdouts that i m showing you on your screen right now. days go by, yet nothing moved on those 20 against him. now 15 flip. the flight is expected to arrive at 9:00, and he s going to be whisked there for his vote. the other absent mccarthy supporter is incoming freshman wesley hunt, believed to be returning to washington right now. with these two supporters back at the capitol, mccarthy needs to flip. he still needs to flip the holdouts. let s look at the six that we re looking at. he s got to flip a couple of these, three of these, depends on the math here. this is the complication right now. four out of this group are in the never-kevin camp. that leaves matt rose dale and eli crane as the two holdouts ....
Oppose mccarthy are now in his camp. i know you re all wondering what changed the vote. i think i can speak for generally all of us. it is the frame work of an agreement in good faith that allows us to keep moving forward. it s about the math. there are four gop members that opposed mccarthy. eli crane, lauren boebert, matt gaetz and matt rosendale. mccarthy needs a couple of those to fall in his direction. i don t know in i see light at the end of the tunnel yet, but i m hearing about it. a lot of progress made overnight, negotiations continue with the holdouts. i hope that we can resolve this before we get to the weekend and move on so we can come back next week, roll up our sleeves and get to work on the big issues. martha: two republicans for mccarthy are now absent. that is freshman wesley hunt and ken buck. their presence would help mccarthy. if hunt and buck are here, that ....
In the latest vote, he needs to woo three anti-mccarthy conservative members: that s right. so 432, the magic number would be 217. let s say wesley hunt and ken buck were to show back up tonight. i was told yesterday by buck that he was due back tonight. i m going to check in with him in a few minutes and see if he s coming back. maybe that s why they re coming back at 10:00. so say ken buck shows up. that would take you to 433. but you still need 217 at that point. okay. that would still be the magic number. if you go to 434 for some reason, let s say you had full population here and assuming nobody else is out and assuming that nobody on the democratic side is out, david trone, democrat from maryland was out on the first vote. he had surgery and came back on the second vote. that s why it changes constantly every vote. so you could go to 434 ....