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Already informing members about the next steps they'll be taking after his now expected victory tonight. that includes organizing the house. they are telling their members to expect a vote potentially late in the night to adopt a rules package that will govern how the house will operate. that's actually been part of the negotiations between mccarthy and a number of his holdouts over the past several days, a number of concessions to allow some of these members to have more leverage, essentially weaken the speakership in many ways that will be part of this rules package. that's expected to be ad...

Some of those votes could come from members flipping. if three of them vote present it would bring him down to 216 votes, or if he's able to flip one of those members and a couple vote present he could win with 217 votes. if he is lucky to flip two of them he would get the magic 218 votes without having to flip all of them to present. all of those discussions have been taking place behind the scenes for the last several hours. already they're preparing for a very late night. they're preparing for victory and after victory expect a mccarthy speech on the house floor. and following that they'll ...

Long to do this process. so, the fact that they whipped this, the fact that they put out what they hope will be a rules package that gets adopted, shows there is a level of confidence that kevin mccarthy is finally getting this done tonight, that we haven't seen up until this point. that, when you also take into account that many of these holdouts that have been given giving him a hard time this week are all basically conceding that this is the end. the end is finally here. it looks as though kevin mccarthy is ultimately gonna be successful, something we probably didn't think was gonna happen ...

Uncertain who those hold outs, which ones will actually flip. lauren boebert last hour she was asked about her vote. she said she was still work on some key issues. and also matt gaetz was one of the chief opponents of kevin mccarthy just said moments ago, too, he would not say one or another how we would vote, refusing to say if he would vote present to help kevin mccarthy. that is something also we'll watch on the house floor. but this all comes after mccarthy has negotiated a round of concessions, some of which will be adopted in a rules package that will be approve in the house after a spe...

And americans having that divide. >> if they can agree on the rules for a vote package tonight, what happens if they don't have the votes on monday? >> i was texting with a moderate democratic member who thought that the rules package that we are going to see when the details come out this morning is absolutely crazy, and that there are republicans that can be worked on. as i said, i'm a little bit skeptical that there are, i think there are plenty of crazier republicans on the right in the weeks and months ahead. are there five moderate republicans that would break with the new speaker on his...