than the country. . i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it s 4:00 in new york and yes, it s groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that s despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off the table sunday night and into monday, to the holdouts in his car gets caucus, a major allowance to the hard right republicans, he said he would lower the number from 5 to 1. he said he previously not accept that. congress and matt gaetz, he nominated donald trump for the speakership and described the power to remove the speaker as anyone, anywhere, anytime, raising questions about whether anybod
end, so it won t. what do we do about that? they are, and understand they been trying for a long time to be in charge so they will not let it go easily because as soon as they let this moment ago, and regular order, even with some of these concessions, they still aren t going to have the same control. a french philosopher said, in the face of an impossible or immovable object, stubbornness is stupid. that is being tested by both sides. mccarthy needed to demonstrate that he could move voters, and he couldn t, so now the question is where do we go from here? in that group, and that 20 or 21, there really are two factions, there are those willing to consider moving towards cabin and that there are those who absolutely will not. and trust as garrett said, that s one of the biggest currency come in the true never kevin crowd, the issue is trust, no confession that you can give them because they don t trust that kevin will come through with it. kevin s option right now is to show that he
with trump-ism then mccarthy. is there any satisfaction in watching him fail, after making such a calculated bet? i take no satisfaction, absolutely none. what bothers me most, i have my family here for swearing in day as many others had and many still have family here. they were proud to be here, to see us sworn into this institution, of course, that never happened and that s why you have to call me congresswoman elect. i worry for the american people. i take no satisfaction in the failure of mr. mccarthy, and recognize, this is an infection within the republican party, you are a student of it. you were a leader in the party but you recognized the infection that has taken place and it comes before mr. trump but certainly mr. trump as of june 16th when he came down that escalator and began the story of running for public office taste on lies and self- promotion and swindling others,
law enforcement officials and military families, active duty officials to sign on to a letter urging them to condemn political attacks. we continue at this hour just to fill in, pull back the curtain what you re watching here. we re watching the speaker vote on the house floor. if anything dramatic happens, if kevin mccarthy moves into the category of being viable here on the tenth ballot, which i think it looks like he will not do, we ll break into this conversation. until then we re joined by former fbi counter intelligence agent pete stock. pete, it used to be a no-brainer. a member of the law enforcement community that protected you and your life and your family s life on an attack on the capitol is having for you to, quote, condemn political violence. and it used to be that everybody, democratic and republican would just do it. but that is not the case anymore. it represents an extraordinarily seismic shift in the political
her lot with someone who would make her that promise than no one. at the end of the day, i think that s still the biggest challenge for this group of 20. they don t have a credible candidate for speaker that they can put forward as an alternative who wants the job. so if you re going to kind of shake hands and make a deal with somebody, you d rather make a deal with somebody than nobody. i think that s a pretty simple calculation for someone like member-elect green. what s amazing for 20 it isn t. your insights are invaluable. it sounds like you need some tea and hot honey. we will let you leave us now. but if anything else happens, just wave your arms and we ll come right back to you, garrett hafnlgt. yeah, thank you. thank you. charlie sykes, again, as i have over the last six years, i m out of words for humiliation of kevin mccarthy. you take over. well, it is interesting. there have been these negotiations. but the negotiations basically are the long abject surrender of