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0 relentless in the face of this gridlock happening in washington. the dow is up today. >> the reason for that, the longer this goes on, theres likely to be gridlock in congress the next two weeks and wall street likes gridlock because nothing changes. >> sandra: see you tomorrow, john. thanks for joining us. im sandra smith. >> john: well see you tomorrow. im john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: all right. breaking news. continuing coverage this afternoon of a clif...

None of this is true. some of the reasons they are not voting for mccarthy are unbelievably petty. this is about showmanship and notoriety. it has nothing to do with the conservative agenda. >> is all this in fighting an indication of the health of the gop right now? and the fact that republican congressmen seem to be levying their votes and possibly take them away if they dont get what they want, rather than support his bid for the sake of keeping the gop unifying and not airing their dirty lau...

Facing right now. he may be alliances with the freedom caucus, he made jim jordan, freedom caucus leader and close ally of his and very close to donald trump. i think all of those things were explained by him wanting to get the gavel on the first ballot today. and if he doesnt, and its looking increasingly like he wont, this will be the first time weve seen this in our lifetimes. this only happened once since the civil war. i think it will badly, badly weaken him. he may still get there at the e...

Yelling back at them for the first time in a public way that theyre hoping that the fever breaks. its unclear if that will happen but that is a dynamic that could play out as were seeing -- >> let me bring in former congressman rodney davis of illinois because congressman, it seems your friend, kevin mccarthy is headed to defeat on this first ballot. obviously people could change votes before the gavel comes down but right now he is 11 votes back from where he needs to be or rather seven votes b...

Development? really uncertain here and talking to a number of the mccarthy allies, theyre saying they wont vote for someone else if mccarthy is still in the race, that is the real challenge here. thats why no one can get to 218 votes. maybe they can vote for jim jordan but not with mccarthy running and mccarthy is banking on the fact that jim jordan is supporting him to somehow change the dynamic here but the conservatives are simply not listening to jordans push to get them to support mccarthy....

He just laughed me off, but brendan has talked about that dynamic, too, and i think thats something to watch as you get deeper into these ballots. >> senator patty murray from washington state has been elected senator pro tem. so this puts her right behind the vice president to take over and preside when the president is president of the senate is not there, but also in succession to the presidency. it is an important position. a position that all of the power, security and the like and somethin...

Parties who have come here today to participate in a day thats usually a celebration, particularly for the new majority. they want to get their picture taken. they want to shake hands with the new speaker. they want to be part of this historic day. they dont want to do it at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning or friday. that dynamic, that little bit of pressure, in the same way we joke about the senate magic, that approaches holidays and things, where members want to get home, so they vote for things t...

Colleagues just all talking together. some of our colleagues off of the house floor talking with the key members who are against mccarthy on this. people like bob good, chip roy. others who are vowing they will not back down from their positions. and so as we start what is likely to be the third ballot here, the open question is going to be if this third bat lot will look exactly like the second one did. one member in the jim jordan camp seemed to say that was a ballot that happened without any ...

And also told me i think were going to see his numbers grow. so beyond the 19 so republicans who voted for jim jordan, how many will vote for him on the third ballot? thats going to be the big test. do they peel off? do any republicans decide to vote for jim jordan on the third ballot? that will be their push going forward. once again in the staring contest banking on jim jordaning get -- jordan getting to the speakership. mccarthy for now staying in the race. >> manu, how likely is it that jim ...

Governance. >> yeah. well first youre going to get a lot of investigations. as weve noted. and youre going to have investigations that will inevitably raise some uncomfortable revelations for the biden administration but will further identify i think the house republicans with the grievances, priorities and conspiracy theories of the far right. beyond that, i think it is going to be very difficult for this caucus to reach agreement with biden on anything but the bare minimum to keep the governme...