process. >> it is a fascinating, fascinating scenario. back to you in a moment. bret talked about a long night. if kevin mccarthy does become the speaker elect or he will come of course, be sworn in immediately and then the remainder of the house members will also be sworn in immediately i'm trace gallagher. this is fox news that night. we are watching right now the 15 th ballot, the 15th round of voting. we started out with the 14th round earlier. kevin mccarthy during that round got 217. it is 217 votes. or 16 votes but he did not get over the hump. so now they are voting again they voted to maintain this session and now they are voting again and the big news coming out of the cell bars that they. >> changed his vote from --

and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. >> we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don't know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they were pretty close to calling the vote in adjourning. they have the singular verse of people there right now. here is what will happen later tonight if they impacted elect kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house, there will be a wall and they will bring an escort committee and they will escort

him into the chamber will be very ceremonial, much like bringing in the president of th united states into the chamber. we presume he will be presented the gavel by the democratic leader. he will give a speech and he will be sworn in by the dean of the house, the most senior member of the house, the republican from kentucky who wa first elected in 1980 and then intern kevin mccarthy presumably for speaker with tha and swear in the rest of the house. there is another important bit of business i would have to happen at ipad i told you this that might be on the edge. remember all these deals to get kevin mccarthy to the speakership? they have to improve the rules package and i'm told that might not pass. >> it is fascinating. i wonder if i can go back to th boat very quickly because you now have as we mentioned lauren boebert who kept her boat at present and eli crane changed

his vote. what is the rationale for changing your vote at this poin in time without having to take day delay, without having to be pressured farther. >> and going to have to ask these members and you can bet your bottom dollar that everybody on capitol hill is going to be chasing these members out of the building. that is the first thing. but someone might argue the outline. there is. or pressure here on capitol hil and at some point i was told very early in this process around christmas time, so think of the context. there's going to be a naughty and nice list. those people who were against kevin mccarthy are going to be on the naughty list. it is such a narrow majority, can you afford to have a naught list. this going to be tremendous pressure applied by rank-and-file members on these members who voted against kevin mccarthy. that was going to pose problems. >> we look at the bottom of the

screen and we have four present. we were under the impression that matt gaetz might swap his vote. you think because he had other present both that it gave him a little bit of a pad to be able to maintain his position? >> i don't know pj just don't know. these people on the ground thin that they know how each one of these folks are voting and then the boat comes and then maybe they don't. they don't vote how they wanted them to vote. the thing is that this is a fluid situation, so when you go alphabetically, maybe you think you have the numbers already locked in but somebody votes differently. boebert doesn't open for mc carthy and they boat present and they missed by one. there was not dustup that i've talked about. mike rogers, who is the incoming , he is on the -- they had to hold him back because he was yelling at matt gaetz, i won't forget this, matt

, when he didn't vote for m ccarthy. now he has voted president and there is another present and that means that we have crossed the threshold of the numbers ar the same inside that hall. we should give the clerk some props as she takes a little drink of water. this has been a tough job for a long time. they have alternated clerks, bu you've got to give them some props for all they are doing. >> you've got to give people -- bob good changed his vote from jordan to present so we now hav three people who have changed a present which really does lower the threshold. we always thought the magic number was 218. tonight the number we found out was 217. so 217 is now the magic number and if it is you say everybody remains in the house that was there during the 14th vote, then five present votes would lower that threshold to 13. and that would give us enough. chad pergram come is my math correct on that quite.

>> let's just walk through this little bit here. if you have four to 34 members near five present right now let's just presume that everybody is going to vote just like they've been doing on the previous rollcall vote. so 429. so really what you need is 215, 215. that presumes every other numbe in this universe holds. 215 would be the magic number and we have speakers elected with fewer than 218 votes so this would be two lower than what we thought on the last rollcall vote but the five present does not count against the overall tally. it's as if you are not there yo are not casting a ballot for jeffries or mccarthy or anybody else. >> chad chat during the 14, the were to order 32 members proved we believe that number has increased by two numbers or is 4232 the totality of the house members right now voting. >> it was 432 because he had tw

present, you had bogert and gai speed you have the total universe of the house. dallas in the virginia passed away so the last vote, boebert and gait spirit and it makes at for hundred 17 is the magic number. five voting present gets you to for hundred 29, so half up that plus one is 215. 215 will be the magic number right now if everything stays the same. >> it is fascinating. i want to bring in the former congressman jason chave at spea jason, you've got me fascinated this well. we saw during the break all the lobbying that was going on and the freshman tactics we saw going on in kevin mccarthy talking with matt gaetz up beside dan crenshaw reaching over the bench and talking to matt gaetz that we saw sheila jackson lee talk at the back gate's. we were told for a while that matt gaetz was expected to

change his boat from present to kevin mccarthy. he maintained his present boat. and eddie surprises? welcome it as nothing but surprises but what is the biggest surprise in your estimation? >> i think the democrats actually missed an opportunity strategically pure the democrat should have voted to adjourn instead of staying in bed i think that would've played thei hand and extended it out and created more present -- more difficult for kevin mc carthy. for the republicans, i think that boebert did exactly what they said they were going to do. they were not going to change off at that and the story comin off the latest round is the fou people that voted against mc carthy, as chad has been doing the math for everybody, allowing kevin mccarthy to get to the place that he wants to g but i think they're happy with the rules package. i think that vote will be tougher and i think that they want to try to build on the momentum of tonight's. you're going to have some

centrist members were just goin to vote no because they are so mad about how this has gone on and that is going to create a whole other fight because you can't do the business of the house of representatives withou the rules package in place. >> but you had this fascinating even the body language, you loo at the body language and you watch people walk up to matt gaetz you see people walking up till lauren boebert and it is kind of amazing. when kevin mccarthy walked in i talked to matt gaetz for a while, matt gaetz whispered in his ear and kept mccarthy walked up and he was red and he had this red piece of paper and he walked up and voted to make sure that they can keep on voting. >> the vote is extended as long as somebody is in the well of the house and wanting to vote s if you get below that threshold and already voted but it is below two minutes, you've got to . up the card and do it by hand and so that vote will stay open to perpetuity until it has been exhausted. the democrats were a little bit

asleep at the wheel right there. they could have made it difficult for people. thus we are having this vote. it really does matter. i can tell you most conversations on the floor are about as the clerk happed the fritos back there or are the hotdogs warm. that is what most of those discussions are. it matters who is talking to hooper sheila jackson lee is very political pushy will go talk to anybody and everybody. there are people that have a real sway with gaetz and boeber and those are people like chip roy, people like andy biggs, ji jordan. when they are whispering and having a discussion, it is probably something pretty important. i think the lip on this was poorly done and that -- we haven't heard his name yet but that is tom emmert's possession. that is not the speaker's position of the speaker to be pretty got a lot on his play. you have a whip that is put in

place. that is what he is supposed to be doing. maybe they sorted out and it is all for now but the whip has no been impressive yet. >> let's go back to bret baier who has some breaking news. >> just being told that there i a possibility at least two sources on the floor saying tha they are not going to do a vote package tonight, even if all of this comes together it looks like it's going to with the speaker. you can't do anything in the house without a rules package going forward but they are goin to swear everybody and paid so we will see if that comes to pass. that is what the word is on the floor right now. there is also more color but before this vote starts. representative elect from georgia was holding up a phone and getting images, got the image of the phone at it said d and 1 foot think that as former president donald trump and she' handed the phone to different

members. it's an interesting image, as may be the former president was making some last minute calls prospective fascinating page yo can see kevin mccarthy fight fry there and he looks to be able to bit more pleased during the 15th round then he would be at least he was by the end o the last round and chad pergram just for housecleaning facts, when bret talks about the fact that they will swear in all the house members, is that a mass swearing-in, individual thing, is it a pomp and circumstance thing. at how does that come down exactly. >> it is definitely pomp and circumstances but they do everybody all at once inside th house chamber. we had a situation a few years ago when there were some member who were not in the chamber whe they have the swearing in and they were downstairs in the basement -- in the basement and they were looking at a monitor and they help their hand up and they set that doesn't count them you hav to be up there in person so the swore them back in person in th speaker's office. so they do it in person but you

often see the ceremonial swearing in. this is where you see somebody with their family holding their baby, their grandmothers there and they bring in a family bibl or whatnot they bring over all these religious historic texts, different creeds from the library of congress. you can do whichever one you want and you stand there with the speaker. what's interesting is that on tuesday the building had kids, grandparents, college roommates all running all over the building. it did not happen. there was a photo op at this wa set up in the rayburn room wher they were going to do this and then they scheduled it for wednesday. here we are in the wee hours of saturday morning most of those people have gone back home and they have not rescheduled the ceremonial photo op yet and conceivably they can do that sometime in the coming weeks. but that is the picture that yo will see. it's not the actual thing. >> this is a great thing becaus you have a lot of people were about to be sworn in in fact if

this vote goes the way we believe it's going to go and there's not going to be kevin m ccarthy -- there's not a lot of family around. there's not a lot of celebrator atmosphere tonight with these members. >> it is custom of the house if you have a child 16 years and younger are to be able to be on the floor at any given time. so there is always something funny going on with that. i can tell you i have two daughters with me and it was a very emotional moment. you bring your own bible and yo price or handed you get sworn i two congress. it is a neat moment. you get a picture taken. it is just a light moment. to a lot of people getting swor in for the first time. it something that very few people get to do. that sad that they have to miss that moment that there will be some ceremonial things along th way.

but it looks like kevin mc carthy will pull this off tonight and congress will get o the business and that is a good thing for everybody pays. >> i wonder because that gate set on hannity that he did not know what else to ask for it. he pretty much had gotten everything that he wanted, making it seem like kevin mc carthy kind of gave up the farm for this spirit images seems to me that it was a lot and is there any kind of question about how you go forward. >> mccarthy. -- we don't have the sound. >> present. present. [applause] >> did he give up too much is

the question, jason. >> i think the country will be better for it but i'm glad they went through the process. i think it is going to be more open and it will be more transparent and more accountabl and members are going to have t work harder. i think that is all good. one area where they gave up too much is to vacate the chair. verbally person ethic the threshold has to be higher than one met. democrats also get the play by these rules. democrats again vacate the chai with just one person. there are some real ramifications but i don't know how many times they have to do this vote but i think that threshold should be at 25 or something for me personally. i think the democrats behind th scenes are going to be elated with this. it's going to open up their ability to offer up amendments and beyond the record for thing that they've never been able to do under nancy pelosi. >> interesting. let's bring in bret baier. he was talking about a motion t

vacate being one. jason chavers thinks the number should be somewhere around 25. one person gets into a snit and there you go. you are often a different direction. >> right. it was one that back before nancy plosive that does a majority of the house. one would hope that there's not going to be this and that i'm people want to see some backlash . he did make that concession. the video i watched really kind of confirmed what we were reporting about. her but was president in the 14 th valley where she -- when she says present, mc carthy's head turns on a swivel to the guy next to him who is sent aid who was doing

the calculations to say, wait a second, what does that do to us. it appears everybody who within the chamber so far appears to b in the chamber right now. i am wondering if there is any kind for rehash after this. lesson come up we need to be able to count better if we are going to go forward. we have a very small majority and we need toward 18 votes to get anything done. there's got to be a reckoning for the house republican members . >> 100%. and that job up with, to jason'

point, is really crucial. it is the ability to know where you are and when the majority i this slim, that is imperative. they're keeping everybody on target as far as the vote. they can get different democrat default and they will try to go across the aisle but to get a conservative agenda through, yo have to know who was voting and when you can get them to the chamber. >> you're watching the numbers on the right-hand side of the screen. jeffries that 153. the most important number could be the bottom, present, which lowers the threshold. this is going at a rapid clip. in the early phase votes 1-2-3, it was taking the better part o two hours to get these done.

this is usually surrounding the voting process and they get in the room and they both sometime 40-50 votes takes and it is jus vote after vote after vote. it starts out slow and everybod starts to get closer to the chain. they've been at this almost not quite around-the-clock but they have been through on the fifth day, saturday and the east, since tuesday afternoon so that got them a little bit better at this. here is another thing to consider. the house of representatives at this moment is not fully constituted. if he is elected in the next half hour, i was told a couple

weeks ago that the house was in all the way together by the 13 th of january and that certain committee staff had not been paid so that's an issue. here's another problem that the were starting to encounter. they are not full members. they were getting calls in thei offices for constituents with caseworkers, immigration issues problems with the irs, problems with other federal agencies, they couldn't address any of that because they are not members but so think about the backlog of work that is piled u over the last week and they couldn't address that he of those issues if this were go on for another week. >> it's fascinating. 175-165. the magic number is 215 because there are a -- if you take the present in ther and you do the number, the magi number is 429 and you need better than half of that so two out of 15 would be the number.

we have with us shawn steal. he is the gop national committe member. i want your opinion of how you think this has gone. at aspen fascinating and baffling at the same time paid. >> probably part of the most interesting days of congress at work. i know more congressmen are wha they look like and what they sound like. i was in the gallery for three days watching this process go on . it was groundhog day about thre times a day paid very exhausting . but we are seeing is about to b made in about any second we are going to have to make a vote on this. it's going to be present number six make a mentally ices it a lot of people don't like politics and they don't like th rhetoric with this is better than most football games. >> it is really wonderful. >> it is amazing to watch.

>> at the personalities behind these on the democratic side. we are seeing a lot of hostilit and beer seen some friendship ben dan crenshaw, the army veteran lost one eye wearing a patch. we have four to 35 people that represent america, from every walk had and every type of style . it is really exciting. here we are late friday night. would you rather watch a movie? no. this is a movie. they are talking policy. this a lot of discussion about policy. we are not looking at the smoke-filled chambers. i think it is healthy.

i've gone through a lot of changes in the last few days an at the end of the day i think there is a way out. it gets people appreciating our system of government. brings up a good point again an again. it's all going to work itself out. let's play it out, relax. what was his mantra for the entire part of this process. >> there was one point mid week where people thought this could go on forever. i agree about those points.

there is something about the british parliament over there and it is -- everybody is arguing across the aisle says the prime minister makes his or her case. we saw some on the house floor today. sub anger and some elation. >> you look at the british parliament and they are throwin stuff at each other and they ar screaming at people have to hol them back. they've been doing this a lot longer than we have. >> exactly right. they've been doing this a lot longer. maybe we will start running at each other. jason che vets, your thoughts o what you've been hearing here going into this and how some

people are saying this was a clown act and others are like relaxed bit it is all going to work itself out. >> it does work out. this is the american way we hav these debates but team threats point, it is about three hours. things accelerate when they get out and go home and go to bed. these are long days for them. i say that with a big smile and nobody has left. you have a member whose child i in intensive care and he's back on the floor. he had to attend to a personal medical issue who came back fro denver to be here to do it so there are real sacrifices going on behind-the-scenes. this is what they have to do on monday have to do it but you know what, it wasn't so bad. if it would going to next week, that it would become much more --

and in retrospect, it is just fine. dip back in for some of these votes. i don't think we have got that. that would be one of the last times that he voted for andy biggs. let's just listening very quickly. we know how mr. rosendale voted quick. >> mccarthy? >> schultz. >> jeffries. >> waters. >> jeffries. >> coleman. jeffries. >> kevin mccarthy. >> webster of florida. >> mccarthy. >> winthrop. >> mccarthy.

>> westerman. >> mccarthy. >> westerman. >> jeffries. wild. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. >> williams of georgia. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. >> williams up new york. >> mccarthy. >> williams of texas. mccarthy. >> wilson of florida. >> jeffries. >> wilson of south carolina. mccarthy. wittman. mccarthy. >> womack. >> kevin mccarthy. >> yarmuth.

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>> bret baier, it took a while. here we are, finally kevin mc carthy is the speaker up the house to be elected, if you will . your thoughts on the process. >> apparently we don't have bret . let's go back to chad pergram. >> oh, i'm right here. die apologize. i was looking at the images on the floor. this is the big moment, obviously. it is so opaque that you can se the elation as kept mccarthy hugs all of these members. think about the trials and tribulations that he has been through. at one point really there was a lot of doubt that he was going

to get across this finish line. there was a lot, there were a lot of people saying it is time to put steve steve's gleason or somebody else in again and again . i don't know if you had it on your phone but i had tons on social media. they come to an and because he is the house speaker and he is in a long line of speakers goin back to 1789, and think about this is now as he takes the gavel. is going to have a lot of challenges ahead. one of them is the debt ceiling peer-to-peer land in negotiations, they are not goin to agree to a clean that ceiling . that is what we are hearing tonight. if that is the case, it is goin to be a battle and you have to deal through all these votes. but he is the speaker. let's listen in. >> they are going to go back through the people who did not vote or if they had any change.

>> gonzalez. >> jeffries. >> rosendale. >> present. >> chad pergram, we were but wondering about that last time because you had at rosendale wh voted for matt biggs and this time he voted present. that was also another shift, so pretty big shift from the 14th

to the 15th ballot. >> that was significant. otherwise kevin mccarthy was not going to win here after wha happened on the 14th ballot. they will announce the vote her there closely. you need 215. it appears he is a little bit higher than that. he should be at 216 because you have 48 casting ballots by name and six present, including matt rosendale who was a lasting vote . they will tally this up and thi will take a few minutes. there sitting at the lower leve and they want to make sure they are in agreement. they will present this to chery johnson and she will announce that there is in fact a speaker that has been selected. that has not been her answer on the previous roll call. >> will we hear kevin mccarthy

speak before he makes that procession into -- we are going to get into ceremony. receive this at 1:00 every afternoon on january 3rd or a couple of days later as january 3rd unfolds of a sunday. under the constitution the congress starts at noon on january 3. they do it put much that day or sometimes on the sixth on january 3 and they pass a resolution to do it a couple of days later. i'm never seen it done at 1:00 in the morning. so you lose this by about 12 hours. there will be a lowball they will take kevin mccarthy outfit i saw akeem jeffries and he will presumably present the gavel to kevin mccarthy and he will be sworn in at there will be a speech and we will swear i the house of the house will be constituted several days late

but we will have a fully operating -- they sworn all the new senators are the senators who were reelected and that happened pretty quickly. with a house that was lagging behind but this is the longest race we have had since the 1850 s. >> 133 rounds i'm told. so this is -- nathaniel banks. you know it all. thank you for that. your thoughts, kevin mccarthy is now the speaker of the house. he navigated that half past. he really did. that guy has been in more hotel rooms and raised more money for the party and there was huge doubt about whether he could do it. he worked with people and now

you've got a united body. you've got that tone and tenor and that fight needs to be take by the democrats pretty quickly in this but it is a stark moment . congratulations to kevin mc carthy. >> how much power does the hous freedom caucus have. this is the 15th vote because of the members going forward. do they have more sway than the might have had had they just go along with kevin mccarthy in the first place? >> any five people on the republican side can get togethe and really hold things up the margin coming out of that election the first week of november portends help what you can do these. the total number of votes cast is 428 of which the honorable

kept mccarthy up the state of california has received -- kevin mccarthy has received 216. hakeem jeffries has received 212

. therefore the honorable kevin m ccarthy of the state of california having received a majority of the votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. the clerk appoints the followin

committee to escort the speaker elected to the chair. the gentleman from louisiana, misses gleason for the gentlema from new york, mr. jeffries. the gentleman from minnesota. the gentlewoman from massachusetts. the gentleman from new york. the gentleman from california, mr. irregular. the gentleman from louisiana, mr. johnson. the gentleman from california, mr. louis. that gentlewoman from michigan, misses mclean. the gentleman from washington, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. hudson at the gentleman from south carolina. the gentleman from alabama, mr. palmer but the gentleman from colorado.

gentlewoman from oklahoma. that gentlewoman from texas, miss escobar. that gentlewoman from indiana, the gentleman from illinois, miss underwood. the gentlewoman from oklahoma -- the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. colbert the gentleman from minnesota, mr. phillips for the gentleman from north carolina, mr. mchenry. that gentleman from michigan, mr. killed a. that gentleman from pennsylvania , mr. . repaired the gentlewoman from california, miss barbara lee. the jet the men from louisiana, mr. grace. that gentlewoman from florida. that gentleman from arkansas, mr. help at the gentleman from rhode island. the gentleman from texas, mr. roy.

that gentlewoman from west virginia. the gentleman from florida. the gentlewoman from california miss jenkins. the jet the fund from north carolina, mr. bishop. the gentlewoman from texas, mis. and the members of the california delegation, miss pelosi, miss waters, mr. calvert, miss lofgren, mr. thompson, mr. schiff, ms. sanchez. miss acosta. mr. mcclintock.

miss zledin. mr. bearra. mr. hoffman. >> that the list of california lawmakers and they will go on for a while. what is going on. what is the significance of these house members being in th chamber. >> this is the escort committee. they bring the house speaker back into the chamber right dow the center aisle and it looks a lot like the state of the union. yet the entire california delegation including the former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi and they do not necessarily got along and they do not ci i and their fellow californians and then they have a bipartisan group and republican leadership says well. they will escort mr. mccarthy

into the chamber when he has announced a speaker up the house . he will be sworn and and constantine in the house. when they have this narrow a vote majority and that don't have proxy voting, that is something that has assisted because of the pandemic. is going to be a real challenge to get everybody there maybe democrats will be able to win some ballots and they don't hav everybody there.

and in every major bill is goin to be a fight. they might have people there at certain stages. of proxy voting worked in favor of the democrats that we just concluded. nancy pelosi had essentially th same breakdown that kept mc carthy for half. they could vote remotely even though they violated the rules lot of times. here supposed to only vote remotely if you were suffering from covid are taking care of a child or grandmother or somebod with covid or who had been exposed or something like that but people were not doing that near the end. so that goes away and that is going to be a real problem for kevin mccarthy because i do not have majorities in the hous of representatives that are thi narrow. when it comes to funding the government, which is funded until september 30, dealing wit that that ceiling, this is goin

to be an issue. out both kevin carthy play politics here. we talked about not passing thi rules package. they can't constitute committee until they get the rules package . there going to do that monday. from what i've been told, they might do a little more massagin on that because even though the cut the steal with these member to vote for mccarthy, they may have fixed one thing and broken it with others. and people like congressman gonzalez said he was not going to vote for that. that is one vote off the board. everybody is there and you can only lose four pallets of this is going to be a challenge for kevin mccarthy. >> it is amazing too much myth. he makes a very good point. the question going forward now is how they governed. them a very small majority, similar to what they had under nancy pelosi and every bill wil be a challenge because somehow we will keep hearing this number , 218, again and again and again because that appears to b

one of the magic numbers going forward that kevin mccarthy is going to have to herd people toward the question is will he have time doing that with the freedom caucus, the 35-40 members who now have seen that they have a little bit of power of persuasion. >> they have juice. and they can stand together and they have the ability to with this one vote vacate motion. however, i do think that this all came back to a real anger about the process of spending i congress. conservatives were sick of it and they were sick of this omnibus spending bill deal wher 1.7 trillion gets jammed down their throats at the end of december as they are going jrue holiday break and they have 24 hours to read 7,000 pages and they said this is not working that is one of the ways that they express themselves that

they wanted to change that process. in the rules that will be negotiated on monday, that is changed. you point out that the speaker elect, mccarthy, went by reporters and said glad it is over. he was asked wilmette gaetz bed ac committee gavel for his vote change and mccarthy said no one has been promised anything, no. so we will have to see how this all develops as far as these relationships, as far as spinof from this moment, but the celebration begins for kevin mc carthy come in the matter what happens he will be the 51 st person in the house of representatives to become speaker of the house and he wil get the oil painting and it wil be on his wikipedia page. he can hold on to the job and heard the cats through the legislation paid. >> you have kept mccarthy saying no promises made and the roy came out, the congressman elect come and set the bottom

line and all of this is that we can have hearings until we are in blue of the face. the hearings are not holding anybody accountable. the way we hold everybody accountable is to cut funding. that is what he wants. we need more ability to be able to cut some funding from these people because that is the way they are held accountable. so people like chip freud do believe they have been given assurances that some of this will happen going forward. >> we will see. it really does come down to the battle on monday. that is a different battle. this is the specific set up and negotiated behind closed doors. these are the specifics that they're going to put on paper and vote on them. and they have to be approved by a majority of congress, setting the rules. the power up the rules committee . essentially they say what anything is. they say how long it ibase. they change but it could be 90

feet one day at 80 feet the next, based on what the rules committee says that they run th entire game as far as legislation on the floor. tonight -- i should say this morning, is about this moment for a guy who tried to be speaker in 2015. he stumbled. he rhetorically said something that really caused him problems and that started the whole deal where paul ryan became speaker. and he has been a great fundraiser. he's been a great recruiter of candidates around the country. he has not held a chairmanship are been a ranking member of a committee. so we will see how he does as far as the legislating and who he chooses to put in the key spots and the whip and making sure that votes get the floor and counting them that is one o the biggest. >> thank you very much. we talk about california a lot.

all the california congresspeople will go into the chambers. the big day for california. nancy pelosi hands the gavel -- actually hakeem jeffries hence the capital but nancy below see is the one who is giving up tha gavel. he's from california and she is from california. you are on the california gop committee. it is a big night for california . >> eve got 52 congressman. really have them just don't lik each other. they've been at battle for many many years. my wife just got her picture taken with kevin mccarthy, so the relief is palpable. everybody wore a mask. you literally didn't know and sometimes, it took about a year and have before nancy plus he starting to let them unmask another getting to see each other and there's interesting little side conversations and

agreements that they make. i like the symbology of having the democrats and republicans come together with kevin. democrats are being nasty about it and there is kind of a and t this. this is a chance for republican to try to govern. nancy up was almost a genius. she won every vote with the sam number and she had wild people in her committee. kevin is going to be put to the almighty test. i have a hunch that he can. >> we shall see if that spring and kevin walker pretty look at this from a democratic perspective and you wonder, you know, he makes a very good poin about but nancy pelosi was precise.

they were constantly constantly in the derrière for lack of a better term to nancy poulos he and the democrats i know kevin m ccarthy as the freedom caucus , they are making sure that it is well-known that they're going to have things th way they want this. >> it is really true. the national nightmare is over and i couldn't agree more. she wouldn't bring anything to the floor without that my think you're going to see to the poin made by chad and bret earlier, leader mccarthy struggled with this with his whip team come up with patrick henry and todd helmer and the fact that they were so confident this afternoo that he had locked that going into that 14th vote, to be surprised and shocked on that

floor, then you had that motion around adjournment. and the cattle call that went forward and then the coming hours and days, we will see jus what now speaker mccarthy gave up to get that 216 vote. people see what is said that rules package. as chat pension, the republican from texas has said that he is not on board with that rules package. they're going to have a fight o their hands and that is the whole house beer that is not just republicans in power. we proceed for kind of negotiations go on and that is where the money hits the road right there in terms of the rules. that sets all the committees an motion and the number of member on this committees from both parties. and just to point out, jason chave it's, you see on the righ side of the screen that there i

members of congress with their children and there. i know what this 123 in the morning on the east coast on th capitol hill, but this is a big day. we need some young people and children there to make this thing festive, like you write your two daughters and. >> jason. >> i think that is exactly what they should be doing. it is great. they have a lot easier time staying up at 1:00 a.m. then their parents do. nc poulos he brought back earmarks but that is what makes the medicine go down. that one points up from trillio had something like 7500 earmark and part of the commitment that

kevin mccarthy is making and the republicans that push for this is to get rid of earmarks. there some republicans that believe there should be earmark and there is an argument for that. i happen to be in the camp that they should get rid of them. it makes legislating it more difficult because you don't throw in a bridge for somebody or funding for a damper that makes it harder for somebody to get to a yes. what is this that they have wha we might see as far as compelling pictures and symbolism. >> it's a little bit like symbolism when they bring the in . probably democrats as well.

probably some handshakes and a lot of hugs down the center aisle. it's going to be a big contingent. this is the biggest delegation of balls of the bring him down the center island looks like right now there is some applaus in the chamber so it looks like they are going to do this.

members of the house democratic caucus on the house republican conference, it is my high honor and privilege to finally be abl to welcome all of you to the 118 th congress. let me just begin by thinking m good friend for his very generous parts of introduction of placing my name into nomination a total of nine times . i also want to thank my other colleagues on the democratic caucus for your generous board self nomination as well.

dean phillips and veronica escobar. i also want to thank my colleagues and my friends in th house democratic caucus for you perseverance and your strength and your friendship, for your unanimity of purpose and for your unanimous support. and i simply want to say that the showing of strength is not for any one particular individual. it will be a showing of strengt throughout the 118th congress, unanimity of purpose on behalf of the american people.

before i proceed any further, let me begin by acknowledging the distinguish gently from the great state of california, the iconic, the herat, the legendar speaker ameritech, nancy bearra. nancy pelosi. is about how the gavel to kevin mccarthy, who on the 15th but was finally elected. >> speaker pelosi but without i history as the greatest speaker of all time. throughout her time in congress

she has been the legendary