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Melanie zanona has the details. >> the big debate here is over the tool known as the motion to va vacate. currently the majority of them want to use that rule. they want to change it so any single member can force the floor vote. up until this point mccarthy has not been willing to budge on that issue. i am told in private conversations this week he has made an offer to critics he is willing to make a look at a lower threshold. potentially a really big concession for mccarthy here, there is a critical conference call that mccarthy has brought from the different wings in the party. that concess...

That he's offered a number of key concessions agreeing to then investigative panel to central all of the probes into the biden administration and that is something that he agreed to for the first time today on a conference call, something that conservatives have been pushing for and most notably he's agreed to a lower threshold on deposing the speaker. it is something that conservatives have really been pushing for and it is something up until this point mccarthy has been reluctant to agree to because woe be allowing his critics to fire him at any point during his speakership. however, as he s...

Real or thinks the people on the committee are like him or there is some other motive? >> no, he -- first of all, they understood how opportunistic and partisan they were going after hillary clinton and he confested it in the embarrassing footage you showed there. kevin mccarthy supported an independent outside commission to investigate january 6th with five republicans, five democrats, equal subpoena power and we agree to it and then when donald trump turned against it, saying he wanted no investigation of any kind no matter how objective, no matter how bipartisan, at that point mccarthy turn...

Women in uniform testifying about the violence they witnessed on january 6th. mccarthy is still sticking with trump. that, number one, is going to be tough for the party and tough for him. he decided to withdraw all his members from this committee. so he is not going to have anybody to push back on anything that is being said up there which is going to create a real messaging problem for him when he's trying to deflect. and then they are going to be talking about january 6th prisoners. these people were rioters. calling them prisoners now? it's going to be impossible for mccarthy. he's going t...