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won the week two. all in with chris hayes starts now. l in with chris hayes starts now. >> good evening from new york. im chris. hayes i want to get ahead of the story. it appears this long week may be coming to a close and more ways than one. if grading on a curve, strong curve, would be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy had his best day yet today. i should say he still lost two more rounds of votes. he did manage to win over most of his detractors, including some previous hard-line...

For mccarthy and 212 for hakeem jeffries. and then the six right here who voted for jordan. one reason this has been delayed tonight is there are two other republicans who were not present in the chamber today. west hunt from texas and kim buck from colorado. they brought mccarthy supporters. theyre both coming back to washington. both expected to be there voting for mccarthy. assuming that does happen, it brings mccarthy to 216 votes. but then assuming that all the democrats are still there and...

You heard issa say he doesnt feel anybody can get to the necessary 218 votes. go. >> that is true. he will not step down until there is a successor that they feel can get to 218. remember the republicans have their nominee but it is the whole house that votes on speaker of the house. and so the republicans, you would have to get to 218 votes to get to speakership. democrats are likely going to vote for nancy pelosi and the question is who is going to be the candidate that can unite republicans s...