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series of concessions put forward by his opponents. that cut his margin of defeat to a handful of votes. what matters now is who shows up to vote next. senior correspondent congressional correspondent chad pergram has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> bret, mccarthy finally showed movement towards winning the speakership today. it came after a three days of parliamentary paralysis. mccarthy remains a few votes short but he earned the votes of 15 adversaries today. >> we'll come back tonight and i believe at that time we'll have the votes to finish this once an...

i'm jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we'll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug i...

a remarkable turnaround today for the republican leader. mccarthy promised progress, he promised it tuesday and promised it wednesday, promised it thursday. today we finally saw it. even as he failed on his 13th ballot. 15 rebel holdouts today switched their votes in favor of mccarthy, giving him for the first time this whole week more votes than the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, but despite this break in the republican resistance, six hardliners remain and congress people matt gaetz, bob good, andy harris, elle crane -- andy harris is not one of them. it's a different individua...

let's hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won'twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if an...

weekend. and they don't get healthcare. healthcare gets cut off today, too. >> pete: did they vote to adjourn, until, what? tomorrow? >> ainsley: today at noon. six votes yesterday. all failed. in total there have been 11 votes. >> pete: enough time for them to come home and come back? they can join us on "fox & "fox& friends weekend." >> brian: absolutely. ounce. >> ainsley: house broke 100 year record 1923 fred g gillette ninh ballot and here we're on the 11th ballot. >> brian: always breaking records for the day and age pandemic 100 years. thinks about b. how much is going on neve...