while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
laura. melanie zanona, great reporting, thank you so much. a lot to talk about with political analysts alice burns, a associate editor at politico, jonathan martin, a political columnist at politico and former congressman joe ranch. first of all, this green shows the concessions, the fund is getting smaller and smaller, or maybe i m getting older by the second. you are adding to a lot of list and thinking about this. just thinking about this immediately on this point, the idea here that they are going to have a threshold of one, this is quite if you cannot get to this number, kevin mccarthy, at this point, without having to try to secure and get altered 18 votes, the fact that one person could move for a motion to vacate, that s very significant. i actually don t think that there is much difference between one and five moving to vacate. laura, this is a battle. look, kevin mccarthy wants to be speaker more than anything else in the whole wide world. that s all he s wanted, all he