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Tsirkin on the capitol hill, and our brian chungs here with me in new york, and with us, lindsey gorman, Senior Fellow for emerging technologies, alliance for securing democracy, and also Senior Adviser in the biden white house. Julie, this could be a rare bipartisan vote, why the urgency now and what does this bill do . Reporter yeah, its rare indeed, ana, every time we talk about, we talk about how things arent going well here on capitol hill. But here you have overwhelming support from republicans and democrats to pass forward this crackdown of tiktok essentially, this bill, as you laid out...

the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think -- kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. >> i suspect that when they come back...

you'll find out the things you disagree upon are not insurmountable and we can finally get to resolutions and get to yes. >> the first test is -- well, first test was electing a speaker and that proved to be quite difficult. but i'm glad you can laugh about it now. the next one is rules package for anyone out there wonder what that means. it's a package that dictates how the congress, the house in particular is going to run for the next couple of years. and it's not clear whether or not even that will pass. what do you think? >> you know, a lot of people are coming into this and grum...

were, you know, put in exile. that's what they'll have to get to. you'll have the folks. >> mary miller just -- >> miller. let's wait and see, chip roy and if you have scott perry voting yes, you'll have the serious people will now come over to kevin and then you'll have the kind of the clown show for lack of a better phrase, right? the people who are just -- they're just here for theater, right? if those are the folks still outstanding mccarthy will win. >> that's i think the key point. >> that was mary miller. >> mary miller who had previously been part of the bloc of 20 just flipp...

but he's not going to do the deal, not on this roll call. maybe not today. chris jansing, my colleague is going to take over this roll call. watch with steve kornacki. this has been an extraordinary day already. we have another flip here. >> we knew it was going to be historic. steve kornacki, what did we just seethe? i want to go back to steve. what are we looking at? >> mary miller from illinois, another one of the holdouts, she also flipping over and voting for mccarthy. that means there have been 13 folk who is have voted against mccarthy previously and now 7 of those 13 have fli...