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letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. hi, noig nicolle. thank you so much. the first vote of this new congress under this new speaker is slated for this hour. it s the rules package for the 118th congress. a rules vote is not typically coveraged but assist last week showed washington is not taking typical for granted under speaker kevin mccarthy, who begins the job in a diminished posture as it took 15 ballots over four days, or five if you count saturday at 12:00 a.m. to even get the votes from his own party. it s a public squabble we all witnessed. no speaker has had to go through anything like that since 1819. as we track the rules vote, we begin with something special i want to show you, if unusual bruising way we got here. a speaker has not been elected. this dramatic day that is not turning out remotely the way kevin mccarthy had hoped. a speaker has not ....
now, that s just a few highlights, low lights, whatever you call them, mccarthy winning at 12:37 in the morning after bowing to the hardliners over reforms largely designed to reduce his power and increase theirs. that brawl shows why there is some uncertainty in tonight s rule vote, whether moderates might vote in favor of concessions. we re tracking that at this hour. the big concession is something mccarthy resisted. he had offered the hardline group, the rebels a threshold of five votes but ultimately he surrendered. we ll show you the deal they struck. this is the passage they re voting on at this hour. any member a vote to spark overthrow the speaker. and a maga style committee to ....