peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times and nbc news political julie, julie, what are you hearing on capitol hill about these two reporter: reporter: well, we re hearing very different things privately and publicly and it is in part because age and the issue of health concerns that have plagued the senate and also washington in general have been the topic of conversation, not just this year, but in the years and before. and so privately in the case of mcconnell, for example, we are hearing some concern from his colleagues that he may not be as sharp as he was before he suffered that fall in march, that took him out for about a period of a month. he dealt with a concussion and broken rib during that incident. he had some falls following that, including that strange moment that you re seeing all over your screens that you were just playing and another fall actually that my colleague garrett haake reported earlier this week that happened when he was depla
three and a half hours or so is the idea of not letting the 90 be held hostage by the ten. i don t know what to do anymore, whether to laugh because the will of the 90 prevails over the will of the ten is a tenet of democratic practices. do you think that kevin mccarthy regrets voting to overturn the results of the track presidential election of 2020 after the deadly insurrection? i think he does not. i think his numbers would probably be worse if he hadn t voted the way he had, and i think that is the way he s thinking about this right now, if he s thinking about that vote at all. it is so sick that you run out of words, david jolly. yeah, look, this is the this is the inevitable trajectory of today s republican party that started ten years ago. what i would say based on fwar garrett s reporting if that is the case, vanity and ambition often cloud your judgment. it s true in life, true in
away from us if they can find a way to do it to have some of these private conversations that will be necessary to break this log jam one way or the other. david. yeah, a couple of tea leaves to read here. garrett s exactly right. any member could have asked for a roll call, which suggests that jeffries decided in good faith to let the republicans adjourn and suggest the 20 never mccarthy people have decided not not to play that card. either jeffries or the rebels could have stopped that motion right there and they chose not to. which is interesting. maybe they re just going to dinner. i doubt it. the most telling thing is that the adjournment is only until 8:00 tonight. and as garrett said, maybe that s the best deal mccarthy could get. what it does say is that somebody expects action tonight, that this is not go home for a little while and see if kevin can figure something else out. i would suspect kevin might be in a position of coming back at 8:00 and saying he s out.
side, he could pull this off, that s clearly turned out to not be the case. he s going to have to do it without significant pressure from trump because trump can t do it. garrett, what is the voting over and over again predicated on? is it that the insurrection caucus isn t enjoying this? i mean, why does kevin mccarthy think voting over and over again is going to help kevin mccarthy and not the matt gaetz and lauren boboeberts. reporter: the way the house is working you need 218 votes in order to do anything including stopping the vote. right now the rebels think it s perfectly great for them to keep embarrassing mccarthy, and democrats are more than happy to watch mccarthy and republicans struggle the way they are. nobody s going to lend mccarthy the votes he needs to get out of this predicament until they re finished with him. it s amazing. it sounds like gang violence. garrett haake, what s going to happen next?
president s place and role in reshaping republican politics. it s a fitting coda to an election season in which the majority of his candidates went down in flames, they lost. donald trump s supporter kevin mccarthy or as he calls him, quote, my kevin, appeared to waiver a little bit last night. he said this, quote, we ll see what happens before he reiterated his endorsement of mccarthy on his own social media platform truth social, and yet that endorsement did nothing. it made no difference. 20 republicans voted against mccarthy in votes today, the exact same number that opposed him in the final vote that took place yesterday. the sixth vote is underway. could be a larger number of republicans voting against mccarthy. that is where we begin our coverage with some of our favorite reporters and friends, covering the action on capitol hill, my colleague garrett haake is here, also joining us tim miller former rnc spokesman, now a writer at large for the