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Republicans have 222 seats. a majority of house seats is 218. so the number of votes that kevin mccarthy can afford to lose is just four. its just four. you know, heres the problem. heres the math problem. if he can only -- can afford to lose four, there are five hardline against him and then there are nine who are unsatisfied with his compromises. all of a sudden youre looking to theal against him right now its at least 14. hes ten away from where he essentially needs to be, and i think the rea...

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After all of that they have to get the votes for the larger spending package that will go through september 30th. that will be the big fight ahead. thats going to rest with republican and democratic leaders. my colleague manu raju just saying that bernie sanders is saying he will not support that larger bill. that means that republicans are going to have to come up with another vote. this is always a little bit of a math problem. a little bit of an arithmetic problem but do expect this will pass...

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Track of this. mel, the math problem persists. >> reporter: it persists and kevin mccarthy has a lot of work to do so in addition to those five house republicans that have vowed to publicly oppose him on the house floor, now we have this group of seven new republicans who are laying out their conditions in order to win their speaker vote even though they dont name kevin mccarthy by name it is clear this is directlied at him and some include promise to put more conservatives on committees, a prom...

Hes got real problems. hes got at least four hard no votes. and more floating out there. there was a letter sent yesterday from seven republicans who were raising all sorts of objections and one of them is a real stricky procedural question from mccarthy about who is going to allow individual members to even try and out of the speaker, you know, they were the ones who helped get rid of john boehner in 2015, and conservative republicans held it over paul ryan the whole time he was in office. demo...

>> i have my doubts that they are as good as the democrats, we used to be really good at this. absentee ballot chasing. and we have real concerns that we have not probably been able to match them in georgia, but that is a concern going forward and if walker cannot pull it out and yet another loss for republicans, we have to have a real change of leadership inside the parties especially at the rnc. i think are lacking right now. >> yeah. i mean it doesnt seem like unsolvable math problem. ned, ap...

In order for kevin mccarthy to become elected speaker on january 3rd he can only afford to lose four votes so if those protest votes, the ones who supported andy biggs continue to support biggs on the floor on january 3rd when they vote to elect the next house speaker that means mccarthy has a serious math problem. behind closed doors republicans engaged in a tense debris and allies called for unity and some detractors said there need to be some changes. >> its nothing new in our history. this i...

Something, they basically blinked. >> and there are a lot of people who look at us and say just ignore him. which, okay, except that he is a declared candidate for the republican presidential nomination, right? you cant just ignore him. given the sway that he has over the party. >> absolutely. and we get it from republicans when i walk up to them another h on the hill, they will say why arent asking me about this, i havent seen it, this is not the issue of the day. but he is the head of their pa...

Not going to be that easy for mccarthy trying to wrangle the votes to get to 218. he seems confident but the opponents are equally confident he wont get there. >> do you think youll have 218 coming to the floor? would you step down in the race? >> no. we will have 218. ill get there. >> he wont be speaker. he wont get to 218. i hope he will say and recognize for the good of the country and the party and congress ill pull myself out. >> wont be easy and republicans think they will have multiple b...