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Welcome back to cnn live coverage. it took 12 balances but now a break in the republican resistance, mccarthy promised progress. we are seeing it. 14 rebel hold-outs moving from never to eventually kevin for the first time mccarthy netting more votes than hakeem jeffries. we should note mccarthy still on track to fall short of that magic number needed to clinch the speakership. we shall see. it's likely they'll move quickly to another vote. to manu raju on capitol hill. what are you seeing and hearing. >> reporter: there's going to be a real effort to win over those remaining hold-outs. patric...

From mccarthy that will leave him standing there with his gavel and not that much more. >> david, i would say perhaps not, i mean offering amends on t -- amendments are not bad things on the floor of the house. >> having the sort of damocles hanging over the speaker's head threatening to vacate the chair and only one person needs to trigger that, that is what drove john boehner out of the congress. >> this is the dynamics question. today there is an alliance between kevin mccarthy and the most conservative people in his conference. how long does that good will or good faith last? they'll get t...

Giving them more leverage over the speaker, being able to oust a sitting speaker with one individual doing that, having more members of those hard-right freedom caucus but policy implications dealing with the debt ceiling. big significant issue going forward but for mccarthy right now on the floor they're counting the votes right now. the clerks are making sure that the tally is correct. he's going to likely fall short here but they feel clear momentum. they think they can get there maybe not today but very close, maybe in the next coming days they believe that mccarthy will soon become speake...

Between introducing legislation and actually voting on the legislation, liberalizing the amendment process, liberalizing the process by which individuals are able to introduce legislation, a lot of that sounds really good, but i'm asking specifically about some items that maybe you wouldn't be on board with. $75 billion cut of the defense budget or -- >> you can ink that without a vote on the floor of the house. there will be processes about how we deal with making sure we never get jammed with an omnibus spending bill again and all of that but you can't really do that. >> what about this -- t...