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when he told us that she had been out here campaigning with a klansman. we re doing a live shot, getting ready. lindsey graham not everywhere that you go where the senate judiciary committee chairman is hanging out. you described the strategy at an event earlier for republicans, which is essentially don t let them run don t let the democrats run up the score in atlanta. yeah, it s about trying to get rural georgia i live about an hour from here, big republican area. people get why they vote. they need to vote. atlanta, you know, this is the area of the state that you neutralize atlanta. it s about turnout. about kelly, the accusation about mr. ossoff, that s just a bunch of crap. we all have photos of people we don t know who we re taking them with. kelly is a good person. david is a good person. they fit georgia better than their opponent. in washington d.c., you worked with president trump as close as anybody the last couple years. why should these republicans ....
chad pergram is, obvious, following all of this on capitol hill. chad, the house is voting now on the speaker. the big question, will she be reelected? reporter: it s going to be a narrow majority here for nancy pelosi if she s going to be elected speaker. now, just in the past few minutes some of the numbers have changedment let me run you through the parliamentary algebra. they started at 427 members when they took attendance. we re told that number s going to go up to 428, a democratic congressman from california will, in fact, be here today. so that makes the magic number for nancy pelosi to return to the speaker s suite to be 215. now, she can only lose 6-7 votes depending on how many people vote here. right now she is at 5 defections. you just had three members, three democrats, vote present. they were abigail spamberger, missouri chi cheryl mikey cheryl and alicia slot kin from michigan. you also had two other democrats vote for other candidates, jared golden ....
challenge win is gaining steam, some calling for a commission to conduct an emergency 10 day audit of the results, this after missouri senator josh holly and 140 house republicans said they plan to challenge wednesday s electoral certification. we have live fox news team coverage. mark meredith in washington. first, we go to congressional correspondent chad pergram. let s start with the senate. what happens there? reporter: the senate comes into session. the senate is a continuing body, vice president mike pence is president of the senate and he is presiding and he will swear in 32 new senators. i say 32 new senators because you have two-thirds of the senate, their terms continue, one-third of the senate has to be sworn in to start the new congress. among them, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. we will also have new faces like cynthia lumus, republican from way onlying wyoming. also tommy tubberville, they have to be signed in today. there is one vacancy. ....
potential defections. rich edson is standing by at the white house. first, let s go to chad pergram live from capitol hill. the house is voting on the speakership. give us a walk-through. reporter: the house, full house votes for speaker and the house as it was constituted this morning is 427 members. the winning candidate here, nancy pelosi, and kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader, has to have an outright majority of that entire house of representatives. if you have 427 people who of reported in today, the magic number is 214, as we look at the tally right now and this is just indicative as to where they are in the alphabet, kevin mccarthy has a little over 100 votes and nancy pelosi is at 84. now, keep in mind, the breakdown as it is right now in the house of representatives is 220 of democrats and 207 republicans so nancy pelosi will probably make up some distance there. the problem though is she can only lose six votes. she lost 15 votes in the race for spea ....
state in history. good evening and welcome tonight history and for those of you are not familiar with the history on path, the series what we have been doing for the last two years now, congratulations on her anniversary guys climactic and thank you. which we get each other. yes bear, that sounds good and works pretty so joe and marie and i have been traveling around into different breweries wineries and other establishments throughout the area telling stories of local history kind of the wild and unusual the interesting and stories that slipped through the cracks when it comes to talking about our local history and tons a special program because we are here in a historic site in february we are here at the harrison hall. it has a lot of historic significance to the american civil war which we will get into as we move forward this evening but before we go into the microphone over to joe. thank you so much for joining us here and live at harrison hall know my name is ....