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Rosen dale. these are all defections im marking off here. these are all defections we have seen so far. andy harris voted for lee cel don. so if the move from healthcare car this folks after this first vote is concluded is to move immediately into a second vote, they would obviously hope some of these republicans who voted for other names just get persuaded and vote for mccarthy. that would be their ideal situation. the other possibility, the other thing i think they would hope for is if some of...

Left which now unfortunately controls the other party. so we had better -- we had better come together and fight for these key things. these three things. >> the house has now adjourned for the day three unsuccessful votes. fox was told it may take days to settle this dispute and the sides are digging. in this means there are no members of the house, thats because theres no speaker to swear them. in bret? >> bret: chad, quickly, we always talk about the math and how it comes up to to the math. y...

You look at numbers, a black liberal democrat from the bronx, brooklyn, excuse me, just won the first vote of the republican congress. just came out on top. not enough to be speaker. not enough to be speaker but the democratic leader just came out on top in the first vote of the new republican congress. kevin mccarthy was just humiliated in public then you saw him open the cloakroom door trying to save his hide in private. what more can he give or give enough because as i said, sometimes math is...

Adamantly supportive of kevin mccarthy. i think jim is going to be asked to go talk to those members who voted for him against his wishes and to talk them into maybe changing their vote for kevin. jim really wants to be the judiciary chair. he wants to get to work. but right now the only discussion for any other candidate for speaker of the house on the republican side besides kevin mccarthy is happening between the people who already voted against him, no one else is discussing another dark hor...

You would expect maybe the very hard right republicans, matt gaetz, lauren boebert to be against you, but its a broader percent of republicans that are not voting for mccarthy and its not good going into the evening. >> neil: democrats are told stay close, dont wander. a hakeem jeffrey said he will get to 212, maybe more. you need 218. you need -- you had a hope that some of your republican colleagues sort of wander or take a long time at one of the snack machines or cafeteria. then all of the t...

Know how many members are reporting to the floor on each vote. that magic number changes as you say it. its roll call votes today. some members drop off here. depends which side theyre on. maybe that helps hakeem jeffries. maybe it helps these members who are voting for jim jordan. the biggest problem kevin mccarthy has right now is that he has a significant portion of his conference voting against him by name. and that vote went up from 19 to 20, byron donalds, republican of florida switched hi...

Majority, and that would be 218 votes is what mccarthy would need if everybody is there and votes. 218 under this scenario means mccarthy can afford four defections from the other side. there are already five republicans who are repeatedly saying they will be against mccarthy. he cant afford that if the magic number is 218. there are others hinting they may be in that direction, so you start to look at the numbers. this is where mccarthy is talking potentially multiple ballots here. this is wher...

Biden and joe biden or cabinet members to indict them. it does conflict him, and does he want to be bulldozer in chief, and so they have to look in the mirror. jamie mentioned the more centrist republicans, and they dont want jim jordan to get to 218, and no. would he like to, yes. everybody on the floor is am bish shoushgs love that power. but then the consensus is that you are embarrassing the institution, and embarrassing our party, and making us look like clown, and when does kevin mccarthy ...

>> thanks for having me. just minutes from now the house republican conference will meet behind closed doors for what is expected to be a tense debate over who should be speaker. well do the math on kevin mccarthys chances. apparently theres still some counting to do. plus, the suspect in the brutal murder of four idaho college students is expected to waive his extradition rights. schools are closed today in jessieville, arkansas, after a tornado took down trees and power lines. theres sti...

Mccarthy for the second ballot and turned around and voted for jordan again anyway. so 19 votes now for jordan. they are completing alphabetically the final tally. mccarthys going to fall well short again. youre going to have jeffries, the democrat, actually have more votes on this ballot than mccarthy. nowhere near the majority for jeffries. as garrett was saying, jordan looms large in terms of is he really going to dig in here for mccarthy and can he sway some of these members? but youre getti...