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Wear the other down. in this battle of endurance. bbc news, bakhmut. to other stories now. and its day two of the speaker drama in the us house of representatives, as once again kevin mccarthy tried to become one of the most important elected officials in the us government. despite receiving on wednesday the backing of former president donald trump, who urged republicans to "vote for kevin and close the deal" — mr mccarthy lost a sixth consecutive vote for speaker, as a small group of far righ...

Texas, that meant five republicans had voted for somebody other than kevin mccarthy, and just mathematically at that point, as long as every democrat votes for hakeem jeffries and he again finishes with 212, there is no way, even when you get into scenarios involving people voting present or abstaining, there is no way for kevin mccarthy to win on this ballot. so sixth ballot, kevin mccarthy, barring something totally unforeseen and frankly inconceivable at this point, is going to go down to def...

0 curry, on the right, one of our great producers, been with us almost from the very beginning of the "the angle" is going to bigger and better things, shes getting married. malcolm is a lucky guy. we will miss you. she is one of the greats, what can i say? up next, gutfeld. >> todd: fox news alert, day two of the new congress and no speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy hit with a wall of republican resistance and now only hours left to win him over before they try again for the fourth time. you...

These are the scenarios to win. if all members vote, if everybody is there you need a majority cast by name. thats important. majority of the votes cast for a candidate by name. excuse me. so its a 218 threshold. 218 votes if everybody votes and everybody vote force somebody by name. thats unlikely to happen. thats how you get started. the threshold drops by one, that 218 number drops by one for every two members who do not vote or vote present that take themselves out of cassianing by name. kev...

Speakership because he was head of the minority party to nancy pelosi. in that race, pelosi had 216 votes, mccarthy had 209. he actually has fewer votes for him to be speaker today even though he has a majority -- dana bash, this is an ignominious defeat. it doesnt mean its over. who knows what will happen on the second ballot. but it is difficult to see how this process ends with a speaker mccarthy. >> its so incongruous the images were seeing of him laughing and the reality is that he just mad...

Wittman. >> kevin mccarthy. >> mccarthy. womack. >> kevin mccarthy. >> mccarthy. yakym. >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. >> see inke. >> kevin mccarthy. >> mccarthy. >> all right, all 434 current members of the u.s. house of representatives have voted and as of right now, the democratic leader, hakeem jeffries, has the most votes, 212, kevin mccarthy, the republican leader has 203. thats way short, 15 votes short of what he needed to get. we should note this vote tally and it could still change if anyb...

House, my living room, sat on my sofa and told me to lie after lie to get me to buy their system, and i fell for it. i was told i would never have an electric bill again. he told me i was lucky that my utility company has other utilities, water/sewer/trash in the same utility bill, because my overview would pay for that, and i am saving roughly $50 a month on my power bill, but my payment is $212 a month. that doesnt add up. >> how much do you pay? >> i am still getting over 300-$400 utility bil...

Here. >> this is sort of a gloves are off moment, garrett? >> seems that way. >> garrett, thank you. now i want to bring in nbc news national correspondent, steve kornacki. help us understand the path to leadership for kevin mccarthy. >> he does seem to be talking about multiple ballots. its been exactly 100 years since one of these votes went beyond the first ballot. republicans in this new congress will start out with 222 seats, and the democrats with 212, and the math gets specific here. le...

The tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 434. of which the honorable jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ cheering ] the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [ cheering ] the honorable andy biggs of the state of arizona has received

Jeffries will have them in a lock and probably get the 212. but if we get over the 19, something could be percolating beneath the surface. what to you think? >> were working through the numbers. nobody is riding to the rescue. donald trump cant wrangle the 19 house conservatives and bring them to kevin mccarthys side. even jim jordan, who has improved his relationship with mccarthy in the minority, he hasnt been able to bring his allies over. i think that if youre look at this from the white hou...