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conservative or chaotic members of their conference who have put us in this position, but they honestly cant afford to wait around, let this come out and potentially risk not being able to get a set of rules to govern the conference going forward. >> speaking of transparency, jamie gangel, what about the fact weve had so much transparency we havent been in legislative business so the c-span cameramen and women have been able to shoot anything they want as opposed to the government seiz...

and now we have to finish for the american public because it took this long. now we learned how to govern. >> so now well be able to get e the job. positive spin on things.e the dam could finally the be breaking in the battle for the gavel, as were calling it. gavel.kevin mccarthy inching t a little closer than ever to capturing house speaker, but hes still coming upo a little short. mccarthy was able to flip r 15 out of the twentyhold one republican holdouts, but its wasnt enoug h. he...

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im jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. well shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20...

were, you know, put in exile. thats what theyll have to get to. youll have the folks. >> mary miller just -- >> miller. lets wait and see, chip roy and if you have scott perry voting yes, youll have the serious people will now come over to kevin and then youll have the kind of the clown show for lack of a better phrase, right? the people who are just -- theyre just here for theater, right? if those are the folks still outstanding mccarthy will win. >> thats i think the key point. >> th...

like so many other local election workers in 2020 he was harassed and threatened as he did his job faithfully. he did not bend. he did not bow. he did not yield to the political threats and pressure. he hes so trusted by both political parties that the new democratic governor of pennsylvania, josh shapiro appointed him as pennsylvanias secretary of state, a republican to ensure that the integrity of the election. thats a high compliment. [ applause ] his character and his commitments s...

concessions he made to them in order to get their votes? >> reporter: jake, that is really starting to come into focus. the number of concessions and promises that kevin mccarthy has made over the course of the negotiations has been quite outstanding, and i should caution that this stuff has not been put on paper. there has not been anything put out that we have seen. this is based on the reporting from me and my fantastic hill team. but i just want to walk you through just to give the...

vote for house speaker starts right now. ♪ any minute the house gavels in without a speaker for a third straight day. congress caught in the grips of chaos. no deal to end a first in a century clash over who becomes the next speaker of the united states house of representatives. im erin burn net in new york and you are watching cnns special live coverage. >> im jake tapper in washington. the talks between republican leader kevin mccarthy and his allies and the 20 conservative rebel...

>> no person, having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> so, they voted again. >> no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> so, the third time was not the charm. and this lasted for almost five hours. were talking about three consecutive ballots. and they could not elect a speaker of the house. and this was frankly a once in a century occurren...

>> no person, having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> so, they voted again. >> no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> so, the third time was not the charm. and this lasted for almost five hours. were talking about three consecutive ballots. and they could not elect a speaker of the house. and this was frankly a once in a century occurren...