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For him to be speaker are digging in. they do not want to give these 19 members a win because they will have no leverage going into a brand-new majority. theres really nothing more kevin can give. i mean, kevin has given on the rules package more than what any of the 85% wanted him to give. so now its time to see if those 85% are going to stand strong. there is absolutely no discussion right now in those ranks of a new candidate, so this is going to be a long night and i think pressure is going ...

It down to where you could have a democratic speaker. unlikely to happen but thats the leverage they have over kevin mccarthy. members can change their vote before the gavel comes to a close. watch to see if democrats vote present just to play a little mischief here to move the final number. thats what makes this so fascinating and unpredictable. you can cast a vote one way and change it at the end so there be horse trading and mischief evening at the end. this is not just about kevin mccarthy. ...

Committee assignments now and another committee to give them more power, to give them more leverage. mccarthy has not been willing to do that because it is not until the speaker is naming where they could go and pick the candidates because of the rules within the house. so there are some pushback and disagreement. but there have been some movement in kevin mccarthy in the conservatives direction which is what is prompting enormous anger within the ranks. not just with mccarthy, but im told in on...

Care about as john has said appearing on right wing radio. what is their profile? the leverage and the ways that leadership used to have to get control of people like these 19 are basically gone and that means that for them, you know, sitting here and doing this 50 times, who cares? they dont have any skin in that game necessarily whereas all these people sitting with kevin mccarthy, they actually do and may get to a point where they have to say we got to make a change. >> this mccarthy ally jus...

Thank you for keeping us up—to—date on the latest on that story. we can talk about this more in fact with the white house colonists, niall stanage in washington. —— columnist. i dont know if you are able to pick up on what our correspondent prior was saying there talking to some of the main reasons kevin mccarthy has been unsuccessful so far. what are you hearing about that? ~ . ., , so far. what are you hearing about that? . . , ., , so far. what are you hearing about that? . . , , that...

Shortest speakership in history. >> and he is going to have the farm bill, and the moment he passes anything with democrats, they will vote to vacate. >> can you govern, and can you be a speaker if five people can get together and decide they want to challenge you? >> half the power of the speaker is the fear that the speaker inspires within other people that if they go up against what she wants to do there is going to be consequences. and nobody is going to be feeling consequences as long as fi...

Kevin mccarthy did to -- >> its huge. it means that any group of five people can move on the floor of the house to replace the speaker and so long as that group of five is able to get a 345 majority of the people present in the room that day, they can replace a speaker mccarthy or -- >> that seems to be a recipe for chaos down the road even if mccarthy -- >> its already -- >> thats what drove john boehner out of the house. >> significant leverage theyve given away to these far right individuals ...

And how we can with this. because i think that a lot of people might not really know or really honestly care so much about some of the strange rules of how the house operates and some of what is being argued and negotiated and the come from -- the compromised laid out on the table. what do the holdouts really want. >> they want more power. that is what it comes down to at the end of the day. one of the issues that has been on the table is to give them more leverage to secall for a ve to oust the...

>> more chaotic. if you dont come in at the beginning tomorrow with a solution, then this could make today look like, oh, this is just -- >> i think the longer it go es, the more absurd and disturbing it looks. the bigger point is whatever happens here, the way the republican caucus is structured now where the tail can wag the dog and these very stride dent voices can have such leverage, especially if they adopt the rules that kevin mccarthy has agreed to, where they have a dam close hanging ove...

Europeans that we are in this for the longer fight. what ukrainians want more of is more assistance from the united states that they can grow their leverage to enable a future peace negotiation. i do not think its right right now. i think russia still feels like it has cards to play. they are buying new weapons from the iranians are putting more troops on the field. ukrainians it was like theyve a long way to go. after all they are winning and making progress. especially in the south. while zele...