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A 245 margin. hes gone and kissed the ring of mar-a-lago. hes done everything he can to move money around, to support candidates thinking he could appease some of these election deniers who form the core of this opposition group and he cant. the math is painful for him but he -- how does this end? i dont see how the math works for kevin mccarthy. >> honey, i want a divorce. >> so youre saying theres a chance? >> no. >> so youre saying theres a chance? no, im moving out. so youre saying theres a ...

Be able to show support in terms of vote totals today. he does seem to be getting breathing room. some of the members in the group of 20, never kevin folks, have been telling reporters they think its progress. its not just coming from mccarthys camp. its coming from that group as well. one of the new members said that he thought there was progress. chip roy, who has been negotiating on some of the more meaty procedual issues says he thinks theres progress. boebert said theres no circumstance unt...

Some of the people who had been voting for donalds are now switching to hern. >> but i just want to say we have heard that there is a deal under way and maybe tomorrow. we heard there was a deal this morning. i mean, just color me skeptical about this. were now on our tenth ballot. the votes are not changing. not one person has moved to kevin mccarthy. and lets assume for a moment there is something going on behind the scenes and they put these rules into writing. is the math there? we are still...

Caucus just doing the math. thank god i have a calculator on my phone, 95% of the caucus. its this hold-out 5%. >> the truth remains as were continuing this conversation about what kevin mccarthy does that you cant beat someone with no one, right? so that scalise question is still very much in play, but ive also heard there are concerns that perhaps scalise wouldnt necessarily -- that number of five is very -- its a very small number really. they could say were not willing to do this. i think th...

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Whether hell improve his vote count based on these negotiations. >> and so does he get some of them back and then can they adjourn or at least go into the cloakroom or on the floor, cut a deal to get these other members to somehow vote present? but theres danger in that math. if nine -- if everybody is there and nine republicans vote present, you lower the threshold to 213 so what is the most votes kevin mccarthy has received, 203 on the first ballot, i believe. so can he get ten more votes? if ...

Is a question of math. im going to date myself. i need tim russerts white board right now. i dont think that kevin mccarthy has the numbers or close to it at this point. weve been told the never kevins have gone from five to six, our whole team has been stopping some of them on their way in to the floor today and theyve been saying some of them have been saying we wont vote present. we wont take a walk. so until that changes, welcome to groundhogs day. >> the other thing we heard is ken buck say...

Lose in a vote for speaker. and theres so much more. you got bob good, bob good is saying i will never, ever vote for -- >> he said stop asking me because it is literally never going to happen. >> and that would be, again, five, if there are five who are dug in, that much, as long as all of the democrats continue to vote for hakeem jefferys, if there are five that are dug in at the bob good level, it seems that way, there is no math for kevin mccarthy. >> thank you. brendan buck, let me go to yo...

The floor and there is votes, matt gaetz for donald trump as speaker, and two others, sparks being present. talk us through the math here. >> a little bit of movement there but none of it toward mccarthy from the people who have been against him. this is the list we have been tracking. vote after votes now. these are the republicans who have not been backing mccarthy on previous ballots. here is how they just voted on the eighth ballot. none of them switched over and voted for mccarthy. lauren b...

Can we just not have it take 133 rounds, jake? im doing the math of what that means. >> i agree. >> reporter: but it is, you know, obviously the -- where we are, its simply an amazing moment, and not in a good way. lets go now to the republican representative chris stewart of utah. congressman, you hear jake talking about that, right? when you look at the history here, 133 rounds, and then they ended up changing the rules. so i can just ask you how you feel about where we are right now, on round...