I want to welcome everyone to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbourne. I wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of

23. So thank you for starting the new year with us. Now, we are already tracking new developments tonight.

I have a special report coming up about the pressure on DOJ to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy January 6th report,

which dropped heading into the holiday period. That is coming up. While our top story is the election eve of sorts in Washington,

Democrats expanding their power in the Senate and Republicans taking over the House, where the

faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties.

Akeem Jeffries replacing Nancy Pelosi with a show of Democratic unity, while Republican

Kevin McCarthy is in really the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it

hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow, McCarthy facing down reporters today and predicting

that when it's all said and done tomorrow, it will be a good day.

Leader McCarthy, do you have the votes for a speaker tomorrow?

McCarthy, do you have the votes for Speaker locked in tomorrow?

I think we're going to have a good day tomorrow.

What are your conversations like with members?

Good to see it.

Are you prepared to make more concessions in exchange for you for support?

I hope you all have a very nice New Year's.

We wish everyone a happy New Year's as well.

You can see that's what it's like in Congress, especially if you're in this position.

You're tracked down.

Everybody wants to know the answers to those questions.

To be clear, there's no major figure that's rivaling McCarthy to get, say, majority support.

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