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grabs, dysfunction and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this, its embarrassing, its dysfunctional. its dangerous, its stupid. those are the word that is republicans have used. >> 11 rounds of voting and we still dont have a house speaker. as the deadlock enters a fourth day we have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that just might give kevin mccarthy the gavel. plus, we get the latest from the war in ukraine as russia calls for a brief cease-fire to ob...

speaker. we do know house republicans joined a conference call to talk about a possible new deal on the table. but multiple people on the call tell nbc news, kevin mccarthy acknowledges he still does not have enough votes to become speaker after 11 rounds. we spoke with kevin mccarthy ahead of that call and this is what he >> this is all leaving one-third of our government functionally paralyzed just as the nation marks the second anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol. "...

Hunter biden about to appear in Federal Court in delaware. We expect he will plead not guilty on that felony gun charge. At the same time, here in new york former President Donald Trump about to head downtown. It is day two of his civil fraud trial. Also in new york, the crypto king, Sam Bankmanfried, appears for day one of his fraud trial. Well watch it unfold together coming up. Breaking news from overnight. Sitting u. S. Congressman carjacked at gun point in the Nations Capital. Good morning....

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...

That he can give at this point. if he makes a deal and only picks up maybe a quarter of these people and theres still a healthy group of opposition, thats tough. if he is able to cut a deal, that cuts the opposition in half. then you can start isolating those people, you can work time and pressure. but youre running into a weekend here where youre going to start maybe having attendance problems as well. this day could really be important for how long kevin mccarthy is able to stick this out. kee...

Concessions are really the two big pieces, one is that motion to vacate the chair that we have talked so much about. lowering the threshold to just one vote. by any member who brings forward this idea of getting rid of the current speaker. scott perry in the break between these votes talked about that this is oversight for the speaker. and making the case that speaker, he or she the most powerful person in congress, and needs constant oversight, okay, youre going to get it. by the way, if it is ...

Chuck schumer will have attendance problems, obviously way too early to know who that person will be. i do think, though, if you look at the candidates in the mid terms who really did seem to gain traction and motivated grass roots supporters and voters and the base, they were fresh faces. you look at andrew gillum in florida, who fell short at the governors race and obviously the aforementioned beto orourke and the texas senate race, which is why there seems to be a little bit of skepticism abo...