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good evening from new york, im chris hayes, youre looking at a live image of the well of the house of representatives, the nations capital, where theyre set to reconvene out there about three and a half hours pm journey, when they do reconvene, theyll be setting about the business of electing a speaker of the house, for the 118th congress, something they have failed to do for the first time in 100 years. today, kevin mccarthy, the house leader of the republican party, long expected to ...

♪♪ it is the top of the hour. im katy tur and were starting again on capitol hill with the question: deadlock or a deal? what will happen today is anyones guess. the house reconvenes in one hour. will the seventh vote be the charm for kevin mccarthy. hes made even more concessions. what they are and will they help? earlier they said they think negotiations could drag on until next week. >> i think were making progress. i think people are talking and thats -- i think that -- very ...

difficult. it can be short term uncomfortable. but when you move to the correct path, all of a sudden, things ease up and you can start having success. the direction here in my opinion is to someone like a byron donalds, a man who is living the american dream, and is the example and the mentor for millions who need hope. here is a man who that has worked his way, has worked his way up. he is not a novice. he has the experience, he has the chops to be the speaker. he is a man, he has a ...

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Member came up behind him and nuzzled him and tried to hold him back so he wouldnt speak anymore. it spoke to the moment how tense things were and how it looked like it was all falling apart for kevin mccarthy. but almost as quickly as it fell apart things came together. were told leadership was informed it was a yes. and there was another moment of chaos where they switched their votes and they were deciding to do another speaker vote. and then what ended up happening is every single one of tho...

And eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. >> we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty dont know what the numbers going to be un...

And everyone was so confident when we came back in the became chamber last night and then the vote failed and there was talk of adjourning for the weekend, but there were last come to jesus moments. griff: concessions. >> i wouldnt say that, but i think that everyone got on the same page, whether they voted present or for kevin mccarthy, at the end of the night, what was best actually came through and happened, im so pleased. griff: and your colleague, scott perry, the chair of the freedom caucu...

Tensions spilled out in the open as florida congressman matt gates exchanged words with mccarthy and with other lawmakers on the house floor. at one point, representative mike rogers of alabama watching appear. he confronted gaetz, shouting. he had to be held back and let away by one of his colleagues. the house was seconds away from a adjourning for the weekend until monday at noon, when gaetz approached mccarthy. look at. that. the appeared to strike a deal of some sort on the 15th ballot. mcc...

Least press pause on this for a little while. i think youve seen that reflected in the vote total here. i think thats what were watching, but the clock is ticking down and these numbers are making their choices known in the seconds you and i are talking. >> we are in, us but not on part of the democrats, the democrats scream, know theyre quite loud, it sounds like they could do this all night. >> they could but even still, you look at, this so far our friends in the chamber are confirming with t...