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Whatever reason? you cant give into terrorists and hostage takers, you cant allow them to take the conference hostage and win. >> mccarthy says he believes he will find a way to flip 11 votes and win but it is possible the math never works for mccarthy as opponents dig in. >> do you think anybody in america right now is like oh my god, there is not a speaker, right? because what -- somebody who lives in des moines, iowa and going to their jobs and going to school. oh no, 24 hours without a speak...

By eliminating the opportunity to have an example shown to you of somebody who is doing really well. right? when you say oh, you know, thieves are -- it gives you a goal to achieve. it is especially disturbing that so many of these students are asian students trying to slip their certificate on their desk. take this home and dont show it to anybody. you need to have role models and goals and kids who are succeeding in places that maybe you are not in order to give you a motivation. >> dana: also...

In congressman jeffries terms bail out a dysfunctional republican party? why, if you are opposed to kevin mccarthy, would you go to adjournment to give him time to work the caucus? i think this is a no win for kevin mccarthy. he is going to go to a fourth ballot. >> a live look at the house floor with 45 seconds left in this show. congressman jolly, final thoughts to you. >> we will learn a lot in the next hour about hakeem jeffries and the democrat posture. do they have their caucus on the floo...

>> i would consider the right republican, someone i could trust, brian fitzpatrick, mike gallagher actually spoke eloquently on the floor. david joyce. but, there needs to be two conditions. i couldnt see myself at this point voting for kevin mccarthy. >> so far none of mccarthys allies have told him to drop out. but the math has never changed for mccarthy. bret? >> bret: chad, and as far as timing tonight, we dont know if theyre going with another vote or do we? >> we dont know. they are out un...

>> it was victoria spartz. >> i understand the math is such that the overall total of people voting yea or nay goes down, but he also lost a vote. >> interesting picture. >> between pat thick mchenry and kevin mccarthy. >> byron donalds. >> byron donalds. >> this is obviously the man who was nominated by the rebels talking to patrick mchenry who is one of kevin mccarthys key allies, also one of the go teens here. and has been, you know, mentioned as a potential speaker of the house, i mean, for ...

Hi there, everyone, here we go again. its 4:00 in new york. at this hour, the house of representatives is completely and totally paralyzed. it is unable and incapable of swearing in members, forming committees, setting rules for itself, passing legislation even in the case of an emergency, couldnt do any of those things. its a state of chaos and paralysis that is unprecedent ed in modern american history and it is all because the new republican house majority cannot agree on who should lead it i...

Candidates throwing their hat into the ring. >> stay there. i want to bring in cnns one and only senior data reporter and talk about the numbers complicating mccarthys life beyond the raw head count. why does mccarthy have so little room for error? >> look historically at potential first time speakers, anderson. he has 222 republican seats, right? if you look at the last few speakers, people who went on to be speaker they had a lot more seats in their majority. they had a lot more room for error...

Mccarthy has made. now you just heard from congressman scott perry. hes another member that is skeptical indicating like he is going to vote no. sounds like he will still vote no. he also got into an intense back and forth, a lot of raised voices, im told, this happened through the course of the past two hours where mccarthy said that hes earned this job. he said that he has made these concessions and signals hes done negotiating. some of his allies have threatened recourse for the members. all ...

Your reacton to this study? >> im not surprised by the study because our children were lagging behind children in the rests of the world. academically, the math scores of american students were trailing and math is a subject you cannot learn well remotely and the saddest thing is children most affected are those already at risk, children who are minorities, children from low income backgrounds, regardless of race issue kids who parents were not able to afford tutors to supplement remote learning...

These are the scenarios to win. if all members vote, if everybody is there you need a majority cast by name. thats important. majority of the votes cast for a candidate by name. excuse me. so its a 218 threshold. 218 votes if everybody votes and everybody vote force somebody by name. thats unlikely to happen. thats how you get started. the threshold drops by one, that 218 number drops by one for every two members who do not vote or vote present that take themselves out of cassianing by name. kev...