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making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we've seen in this chamber is tough. it's tough to watch. it's tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that's why it's important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] >>...

the house this morning. lawmakers set to vote again in two hours. but gop leader kevin mccarthy has put up a new offer he hopes will win over a faction of his party. that has been fighting against his candidate us is. what he's giving up now and why it might hurt him with moderates. also what is president trump trump's roul roel? he's made call to holdouts asking them to vote for mccarthy. what they told him to do instead and why he's now predicting a big win today. plus the man accused of stabbing four university of idaho students is back in idaho. what new body camera footage rel...

Supporters. but progress is progress. he has to get through today and get to tomorrow. >> progress is progress. he has to get through today and tomorrow. there are whispers getting louder about potential other candidates for speaker. one of them is steve scalise. is he going to be if his name comes up and if he decides to move into that position, kevin mccarthy, could he get enough votes with these never kevin people who are are also kind of never leadership people. >> yeah, that's an important distinction that you're making. jake and all the rest of the folks here scrambling around the capito...

Congressman, those conversations that you said you've had with what you describe as seven or eight -- people have been saying five, six. you're saying seven or eight people who will absolutely never vote for kevin mccarthy. how are those conversations when you have them? are they being rational? are they defining in any way what they're for, as you said, as opposed to what they're against? which we all know is kevin mccarthy. >> well, i think every one of these people have said where their threshold is. and i'm simply taking them on their word about their threshold. but once again, we've got s...

Meaning they don't have 218 votes to adjourn. so that's why this is continuing to go on and on and on. now, behind the scenes there are negotiations that are happening. and that is really what could be key here. because if they make progress on those negotiations, significant progress, actually shake hands, come to some sort of of tentative agreement, that could change the dynamic tonight. and i am told from a source that is directly involved in these talks that their hope is to get that deal tonight. that is the push, to get that aspect of the deal done. that includes a number of rules change...