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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...

buck? buck? bucshon? mccarthy. budzinski? jeffries. burchett? mccarthy. burgess? mccarthy. burlison? mccarthy. bush? jeffries. calvert? mccarthy. caraveo? jeffries. carbajal? jeffries. mccarthy. carl? mccarthy. carson? jeffries. carter of georgia? mccarthy. carter of louisiana? jeffries. carter of texas? mccarthy. casar? jeffries. case? jeffries. casten? jeffries. castor of florida? jeffries. castro of cicilline? jeffries. ciscomani? mccarthy. clark of massachusetts? jeffries. clarke o...

fights behind closed doors. you walk out and -- wow. willie -- what? >> you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this -- >> never. >> -- to happen. >> never. >> you just dont go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. >> what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what its going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor its going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m...

hi there, everyone, here we go again. its 4:00 in new york. at this hour, the house of representatives is completely and totally paralyzed. it is unable and incapable of swearing in members, forming committees, setting rules for itself, passing legislation even in the case of an emergency, couldnt do any of those things. its a state of chaos and paralysis that is unprecedent ed in modern american history and it is all because the new republican house majority cannot agree on who should...

world. this is a special edition of "the situation room" and the vote for speaker. >> good evening to you, wolf. good evening to all. im erin burnett. were following kevin mccarthys failure to lock down the votes he needed to win that speakers gavel, wolf. >> that fight plunging the republican party right now into a truly historic struggle on the floor. as of tonight, despite losing three votes, mccarthy remains defiant, refusing to give up, despite a band of some 20 right wing lawmake...

jumpsuit, agreeing to be extradited back to idaho. his family seen for the first time, claiming cops have the wrong man. blues new video from a traffic stop showing the suspect. and story of survival, how a four-year-old girl and nine-year-old boy survived this 250-foot drop. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. >> odonnell: good evening and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. tonight, political chaos in the house of repres...