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just in the last hour, a major report from the justice department details what they call critical failures by law enforcement in response to the massacre at robb elementary school. we'll take you live to uvalde, where attorney general merrick garland will give remarks next hour. happening right now, former president trump's defamation trial is back under way in new york after yesterday's chaotic day. plus, new attacks in yemen overnight, adding to concerns of a greater conflict in the middle east. and in texas, a standoff between the biden administration and the state over acce...

>> we'll see. >> neil: it's pretty clear not everyone is on the same page. you're looking live on the house floor where they're voting on a rule to essentially bring this debt ceiling bill to the floor there. as chad pergram likes to remind us, you don't have a rule, you don't have a debate on the bill and you don't have a chance to raise the debt ceiling and cut the spending that has been the source of this nerve building that we've been seeing. that is expected to pass and lead the way to likely a vote on the entire matter later tonight. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. so much...

speaker after four days and 15 rounds of voting. this was the moment that the longest speaker contest in 164 years came to a close. [ cheers ] but before the house selected its new speaker, the cameras captured a stunning political soap opera playing out on the house floor just before midnight. mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes locked up in round 14, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the end of the ballot process to vote present even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. a stunned mccarthy walked up the house floor to confront gaetz. as ...

Need 31 of those remaining, 48 votes, including 42 democrats and six republicans that have not voted. that's a herculean task. >> it is. the fact that so many democrats that are not voting for this tells me a lot right there. the fact that most of the republicans have put up their votes. you could conceivably have people flip their votes. that is something that kevin mccarthy and tom emert could do. the team has long burned off the clock on this. this started in the 3:00 hour here. this is kind of like soccer. the time is kept on the field. they can keep this vote open as long as they absolute...

Straightjacket. do you think it's going to be impossible to govern, impossible to preside over the house for the upcoming speaker, the incoming speaker, because of some of these concessions? i mean, all it takes is one member to go to the house floor -- >> sure -- >> right. couldn't matt gaetz do this next week? start it all over again? >> he -- he could do it every day, but it's just a vote of confidence is what it is. and it would be a simple majority. so i thinking about in leadership and being able to control the floor vote is a key thing, and of course the whip, our new whip who was steve...