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Its a moment for the history books now on capitol hill, tonight. the house adjourned, again, this time after another five votes that brings the total for those two doing the math to 11. 11 votes that kevin mccarthy is no closer to being speaker. and even though negotiations are going on through the night, there are questions that are going over whether he can actually win over the hard-liners without losing some of his own key moderate supporters. joining me now, political director, -- political...

Another way is why didnt he, you know, if he did the math, if he had a good sense of the math, why werent those deals negotiated between election day and the new congress convening? there have been miscalculations by the mccarthy camp as to this, you know, 10, 12 humiliations. however, with significant progress today, you hope all thats in the rearview mirror in the kevin mccarthy camp. the question is, if you have the good, boebert, gaetz, crane, and a couple other never, is there any way? how ...

Republicans, understands that if you try to run the house on a party line, vote you are ceding your faith to every five people can get together to demand whatever. thats the math. if youre gonna, say youre gonna vote on a party, line 95 republicans with any specific beyond anything, can screw you. we -- all this on that lever leveraged goes away. do you think thats a possible lesson? >> i certainly think youve articulated the binary choice at that house republican congress is taste. with ten mos...

President for potential wrong doing. let me say this loud and clear. the republicans will also investigate a president for potential wrong doing in ukraine and russia -- >> just to set the scene here, we are watching the 13th round of voting. the 12th round of voting just ended. there was some major movement for kevin mccarthy. 14 votes flipped for him. 14 of the so-called rebels flipped for him, meaning those that are still standing against him are feeling more and more pressure from the majori...

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Unknown. we know that kevin mccarthy wanted to adjourn. maybe didnt have the votes. then patrick mchenry said theyre going to be there a long time. scott, what are you hearing right now? >> one might be on the floor told me looks like the republicans may try to get to an adjournment motion shortly. if the republicans were able to get the votes together to adjourn, that likely signals that mccarthy made progress in this meeting hes been having with the 20 holdouts. >> all right. and heres the thi...

Tomorrow, and he will not have the votes next week, next month, next year. so one must wonder, madame clerk, is this an exercise in vanity for someone who has done the math, taken accounts, and is putting this institution through some things that absolutely is avoidable? [applause] my colleagues did not see many of my other republican colleagues have, they believe mr. mccarthy has earned the position of speaker of the house because he raised half a billion dollars to get republicans elected. >> ...

Other than kevin mccarthy and hakeem jeffries. kevin mccarthy got a lot closer in the last round and he could stand to potentially win this right now. lets go to steve kornacki. steve, break down the math for us. >> yes, so again, the key difference on this round is that the democrat from maryland is present and voting this time. he wasnt before. so that means 432 we expect votes here, meaning the magic number would be 217 for mccarthy to win on this ballot. search holdouts. remember mccarthy fi...

Joe. 20,000 pounds ever fentanyl would kill half the world. but joe biden has never really been that great at math. hunter always handled the books ands he has never been history. >> migration-whats your take. >> i think its a human right if your family is being persecuted if youre being dealt with in a way -- i mean, i thought it was a human right for, you know, jews in germany to be able to go to escape and get help where they could. >> jesse: i dont think they have gas chambers in guatemala. ...

To cut you off here, in the programming, we are dealing with a lot of live events and a lot of things happening on the hill. and talking about the math, assuming that things will hold and assuming nobody will defect away from mccarthy and only continue the momentum he has picked up and we know two members are coming back, ken buck, hunt, and the magic number is 218 that kevin mccarthy needs to get to. he will probably have 216. explain what happens, and if you can, can you take us inside the dis...