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Him. >> between all the possibilities that carlos just mentioned and the investigations that santos is now facing, what do you believe is the most likely outcome here? >> i agree with him. i do think its going to be a really high bar to expel. you need two-thirds of the house to do that. who knows whats going to happen with the department of justice. but i could see the leadership wanting to push him out. but that could go to a democrat if he gets pushed out. so its a very dangerous thing to tak...

Five hard line republicans who say not a chance. were not going for him. then there are the other nine who say the compromises that he has made, they are unsatisfied with those. at this point it looks like he could be upwards of 14 seats in the hole and can only afford to lose four. i am not that good at math but i know 14 is way bigger than four so at this point the question is where does he get the votes? i dont know. >> hes been close to the speakership before. what happened then? >> you know...

Here. >> this is sort of a gloves are off moment, garrett? >> seems that way. >> garrett, thank you. now i want to bring in nbc news national correspondent, steve kornacki. help us understand the path to leadership for kevin mccarthy. >> he does seem to be talking about multiple ballots. its been exactly 100 years since one of these votes went beyond the first ballot. republicans in this new congress will start out with 222 seats, and the democrats with 212, and the math gets specific here. le...

Washington. republicans are set to regain control of the house of representatives. it will mark the end of one party rule in this town. but you guys are right. the big question today is who is going to be the speaker of the house going forward? california congressman kevin mccarthy, he is in the fight for his political life. he has long campaigned for the speakers job. and hes doing all he can to shore up support ahead o roll cl vote this afternoon. >> speaker tomorrow. >> i think were going to ...

Scores dropped by eights points and fourth grade by five, three points in fourth and eighth graders in reading. this is tied toer yoos of covid school closure and experts have tied this to math. why would schools like in philly go back to masks going into the new year if they know that learning loss and horrific outcomes issue loss of 28 trillion over the next century could be the result? >> todd, they dont care about the children, its never been about the children. it has been about the politic...

Extended exchange with chip roy of texas. he got into another one with scott perry of pennsylvania. another person who has indicated that hes likely to vote against him. saying that we are -- we have to move forward here and a number of people coming to his defense saying that kevin mccarthy was nominated by hi conference and deserves to be elected speaker and himself saying that he has earned this job. but one thing that did not change, kate, is the math. he still has a math problem. because of...

Of have of the first vote when we decide for pope john paul ii. francis was the jim jordan of his day. by the fifth ballot, he had the most votes. thats where ill end on the smoke and greeting from that. ill leave it at that. thanks very much. i want to go to chad pergram. interesting development here. were at 20 republicans that have found an alternative to kevin mccarthy. jim jordan getting more support thansome of these first go-rounds. for example, chad, were learning on this third ballot, b...

Scott desjardins, because he is not negotiating and they are having an amicable conversation, and he is not negotiating, and so maybe he has to change the posture, but jim jordan is about to speak, and the expectation is to signal the supporters to support kevin mccarthy, and he is a close ally of mccarthy, and they have developed a close tie over the years, and this is a key source of the alliance between jordan and mccarthy. will jordan say, come vote and tell his six supporters to vote for mc...

Know how well coordinated this option to mccarthy is. and if too many republicans end up voting present or abstaining on future ballots, lets say that 16 republicans abstained or voted present, now youd have 418 total votes. the magic number would be 210. you would then be in territory where hakeem jeffries getting 212 democratic votes could end up with a majority. thats a very farfetched scenario, but it gets to when you move to a second ballot, a lot of things come into play. a lot of possibil...

Clyde voting for andy biggs, one of the leaders of this rebel group. six republicans so far voting against kevin mccarthy. if the math holds through the remainder of the alphabet, as we have every reason to expect it will, with all democrats voing for hakeem jeffries, we do appear to be in a situation where we have too many -- eli crane, another new member going for andy biggs. were in a situation where this congress will make history. we will have at least one more vote to see who the next spea...