Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbre and the first vote of the new Congress under this

new speaker is actually slated for this hour. It's the rules package for the 108th Congress.

Now a vote on the rules is not typically covered live as major news, but well, as last week

showed, Washington is not taking typical for granted under the leadership of now speaker

Kevin McCarthy who begins the big job in a diminished posture after it took fully

15 ballots over four days or five if you count Saturday at 12 a.m. to even get the votes

from his own party. It's a public squabble. We all witness no speaker has had to face anything

like that since the year 1819. So right now as we track tonight's rules vote, which will

approve the concessions McCarthy made, we actually begin with something special I want to

show you, the unusual bruising way we got here.

A speaker has not been elected. This dramatic day that is not turning out remotely the way

Kevin McCarthy had hoped a speaker has not been elected.

Some type of discussion happening between McCarthy's camp and Mac Yates. Who would have

guessed that a bunch of insurrection apologists would have trouble certifying a vote? It's what

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was spotted chatting with the Republican

Paul Gosar the lawmaker was ties to white nationalist.

Oh, we might have a fight here. What's going on here?

I wish that camera would widen out.

The honorable Kevin McCarthy of the state of California, having received a majority of the

votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the House of Representatives.

Now, that's just a few highlights, low lights, whatever you call them. McCarthy winning at

1237 in the morning after bowing to the hardliners over reforms largely designed to reduce

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