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thank you so much for letting us into your homes all weeklong during these extraordinary times. were grateful. "the beat with ari melber." its friday, have you heard? >> i hope you have a great week, nicolle. >> you, too. welcome to "the beat." this republican chaos is continuing on this friday night in the house, which just rejected kevin mccarthy for speaker again, the 13th time. thats two more defeats for mccarthy today. >> kevin mccarthy is pretty much stuck at this point. he can...

and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. >> 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthys rolling humiliation for this evening. >> manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they a...

chris, extraordinary things that we are watching a realtime, the disrobing of the house minority leader, the man who would be speaker, essentially crawling politically naked into what he thought was gonna bes finest hour. watruly an apt metaphor, and uncharted territory. and one of those things, election is run like this, you dont know what the outcome is you simply dont know what will happen next. its not often that you get that that midnight aca but where john mccain vote where you g...

you are telling me, you dream that true. >> i did. >> it wasnt as close my dream. >> some very bad liberating takes us on the air tonight. and tomorrow at noon, when they resume, lets hope some serious business gets done. on that, note i wish you a very good night, well of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, ill see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow. -- he set a new contemporary record, were now back into the 1830s collapsed. of 11 votes happen, 1850s or is like 1...

In his leadership because of his failure as speaker, attacking constitutional rights, silencing the voices of tennesseeans, refusing to take up seriously the issue of gun violence. and he wanted to shut that down. >> so youre saying he just did it because he was mainly worried that you are going to call a no confidence vote for him? >> he was. even today, before we adjourn session, once again i rose my hand and sought recognition to make the motion to vote no confidence and the speaker of the ho...

Members of his conference. but jake, that is the real concern for mccarthy going forward after this. because of that concession that he has made, giving one member the power to call for a vote to oust a sitting speaker, he is going to go back to the rules that john boehner had that led to boehners ouster. you heard him there when i asked about the concern. he said i am not afraid of that. im not going to be a weaker speaker. so he has claims he is fine with this. but it could very well mean he c...

But i guess what im saying is what im hearing from house republicans and allies of kevin mccarthy is that they feel like all these rule changes are making it so that its gone beyond democratizing and liberalizing the voting process and the legislative process and the amendment process. and it has gone into a place where there will be the tyranny of the minority, where these rebels will be able to force votes quickly on whether or not to get rid of a speaker or to prevent legislation that can pas...

Can get 218 votes and become speaker. this was lets get to a point so we can continue the work without the circus of vote after vote after vote. >> right. and thats my vote because for what? as congressman kinzinger said earlier, is this -- is it really that important for this one guy to be speaker of the house? is there really no one else who could do it? >> i think this is a real question. i asked earlier who would tell kevin mccarthy when its time to step aside? and nobody could answer that q...

Dictatorship. each of us represent an equal amount of people. and we need to have an equal input on issues. i think its actually beneficial for democrats to reform this institution. im note worried about it as much. honestly, i dont mind. we can put all the names and let god decide and just pick a person. its not about the person, its about this institution and to start governing. and i think that is better right. >> let me interrupt for one second. i apologize, congresswoman, but the clerk just...

People, is touting kevin mccarthy. i mean, this is someone who was threatening him going into january, right? and all of the sudden shes like youre irrational. >> trashing lauren boebert. >> yeah, trashing lauren boebert, get it together, and yet it feels like they dont. thats not the picture you want to show the electorate when youre claiming that you just won a mandate of some sort by winning back the house. >> we should note one thing, jake. since tuesday, weve seen kevin mccarthy make zero p...