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will see you again tomorrow. and now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening, lawrence. >> i was wondering if you remember where you were the last time that kevin mccarthy flamed out as a candidate for speaker of the house >> i bet you are going to tell me. >> i am going to tell you, you are on the show. lets see if this video refreshes your memory. watch it. >> this was something kevin mccarthy planned to say on fox news, including the word on trustable un-tr...

reporters moments ago. >> right now, the speaker of the house is -- that does not do benefits for anybody out here. so, the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head -- i know you guys get excited. i dont think if you watch me that i get excited -- so i want to go through all this? no. but i think, at the end of the day, its better to go through this now so we can be successful for this term. >> you failed three times. how do you possibly pull this off? >> -- >> backing out? >...

reelected senators. senator patty murray of washington also made history when she became the first female senate protons, it is the second highest ranking job in the chamber, not to mention it makes her third in line to the presidency. when marie was first elected to the senate in 1992, there are only two women in the chamber. but many had their eyes today on the incoming suit junior senator, john fetterman. would he wear his signature hoodie in shorts? he ended speculation earlier tod...

youll swallow your pride if hakeem jeffries came at you because youll work together. theres stuff you want. if theres nothing you want in a governing sense theres nothing you can be given in a deal. michelle and nick, thank you. that is "all in." alex wagner tonight" starts now. happy new year. >> were talking about the unity on display, we have congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez at the top of the hour. she will have a lot to say. thank you for a great show as always. thanks ...

anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i dont think if you watch me that i get excited -- do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day its better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. >> if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? >> you get to 218. >> this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after...

sources are telling us that house republicans are on a conference call right now. theyre trying to figure out what is the path forward to get a speaker in place. just within the last couple of minutes, we saw kevin mccarthy telling our team on the hill he thinks he will get to the magic number, 218, same game plan, he says. look at that right there. we have new reporting this morning into how hes trying to make this happen. hes been deploying five trusted allies to negotiate with these...

no path to becoming speaker of the house because a bunch of conservative members of the republican conference have dug in against him. what has changed this morning? why should today be any different after the three failed votes yesterday? a couple things mccarthy is doing like send his allies fanning out across the conference, trying to get some members voting present instead of no. well talk about that in a second. keep in mind, the numbers here. mccarthy can only atord four defector...

>> reporter: all of these options are thorny. if they go to another round of balloting, its not clear -- i would be surprised if mccarthy were able to peel off the number of people that he needs from this 20 no vote coalition on his side to actually become speaker on this next ballot. what we are hearing is that the mccarthy team could go for a motion to adjourn until tomorrow. you are right, that would buy them time. it would save them another round of embarrassment if he were to lose...

needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members cant even be sworn in. they dont even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. its a level of dysfunction unseen in modern polit...

not been the charm for kevin mccarthy. you see the tally on the screen. we are waiting any minute for this vote to officially be closed, and then the question is what happens next? do they try for time number six? where unless something has dramatically changed and we dont think it has, mccarthy will probably lose again. do they try to take a break? what are the concessions that are happening behind the scenes? we have the best team in the biz, here to answer the questions to the best ...