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Or even if its only five. >> right. >> he can only lose four. i dont know if you voted. >> so i guessed 20. i was a little more optimistic. but everybody i speak to, all the republican members that im talking to, they are all saying they dont see the math to get him there. they dont know necessarily who number five or six or seven is of the never kevins, but they believe there are more than four, and they think its personal, and they dont think anything will change their mind. >> it is possible ...

Big battle. >> but in the spring, they have to do a budget, right? which then allows them to do the appropriations bills, which they all said they want to do individually, not in a big package. so there are a lot of internal policy debates to come. technically and technically tonight of these 20 holdouts. what has never been clear, are there five never, ever, evers or six or seven or eight? i would submit there is a big difference between five and eight. weve heard a range. if there is five, he ...

Nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali. ali, what could you tell us about the brokering thats going on behind closed doors? >> alex, well see what we actually see tomorrow. about 15 hours from now on your back on the floor. but it sounds like there closer to a deal than theyve been. if you watch the body language, the mood of the people that are leaving the meeting, chief among them kevin mccarthy, he does seem more relieved tonight than hes been at any point over the course of the last...

More on that, joining us now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ali vitali. ali, what could you tell us about the brokering thats going on behind closed doors? >> alex, well see what we actually see tomorrow. about 15 hours from now on your back on the floor. but it sounds like there closer to a deal than theyve been. if you watch the body language, the mood of the people that are leaving the meeting, chief among them kevin mccarthy, he does seem more relieved tonight than hes been at any p...

Looking for attention for themselvesfor , the american pee certainly deserve good certr. nce and bette here now at the very latest as the host of special report, prepare. bee ive been following it all day. ive been in contact all day pel with people involved with these negotiations.d however, how clever. this if they get this deal donede, im not certain gets to 218. it might get to to fourteen or two. fifteen, and then therell still be a nee d to get a fewoard more on board. aring thats exactly ...

Who knows what else hes giving away that is not going to give him the ability to govern if he ever gets to be speaker, which i dont think there is a path for him to become speaker if you know math and i dont understand what it is that their plan is. theres no plan b apparently and it makes us all look like a joke. it looks like the gop is a banana republic unto themselves who are focused specifically on their narcissistic demands and they have no interest in actually governing. and i think to te...

Election when the math was crystal clear, when they had exhausted every legitimate legal avenue to contest the election, and so the same people who tried to topple the american democracy and then stood by for hours as that building, that chamber was under siege youre looking at are now trying to subvert another democracy in a sense, if this were a pure democracy kevin mccarthy, whatever you think of him at home has the most votes. he has the most support, i think you said yesterday its around 95...

Day down the road, because theres always going to be this balancing act. i just want to talk about this making progress. gop sources are still saying to me, to paraphrase a line from james carville, its about the math, stupid. and so even if he shows some progress, he gets 10, 11, 12, we cannot say this enough and no one seems to know, by the way, how many solid never kevins but he can only lose four. >> the clerk is just gaveled in. lets just take a listen to see -- >> the house will be in orde...

Im jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. well shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-line...

Vote to adjourn and continue negotiations and come back monday and seal this deal. >> yeah, although thats dangerous. >> the never kevin is in cement. >> this is going to be a call that mccarthy and his team have to make. do we keep plugging along and feel the momentum? you saw paul gosar, some of these individuals, you said, one of the individuals, i forget which one it was, bishop or -- >> bishop andingles. >> who was going to vote for byron donalds. >> ralph norman. >> he told manu an hour ag...