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Speaker kevin mccarthy said the talks are, in his view, making headway. >> i think were making progress. >> were all working together to find a solution. >> the new concessions first reported by cnn include what was once a red line for mccarthy, agreeing to propose a rules change that would allow just one member of the house to call for a vote to oust the sitting speaker. were learning this morning that the new concessions are not going over well with some gop moderates who mccarthy cannot affor...

0 >> i dont think voting tonight is productive. let people work more. >> reporter: in a positive sign from mccarthy, some of the opponents came out sounding positive, including scott perry of pennsylvania sounded that -- he said talks had been productive as well as congressman chip roy. they had been asking for more sway over the speakership. some of them had asking to encourage mccarthys super pac to stay out of certain primaries. they did agree to do that. that may have won some. his path, ver...

David spunt live in washington with the details. good morning, david. >> well, after a few hours from the drama on the floor, kevin mccarthy and his supporters will be back at it in just a few more hours hoping to gain more votes like 15 or 20 to be specific with 20 republicans holding out. mccarthy cannot be speaker. the margins over democrats are too thin to begin with mccarthy has no plans to drop out and will stay on for a fourth ballot. even a fifth or sixth if necessary. on the first round...

Political drama continues to play out. the second takes place at the moment and on capitol hill, how does it work in the second round? 1t�*5 it work in the second round? its already not _ it work in the second round? tt�*s already not going his way for the second time today in 15 of his colleagues have voted against him and cast their ballots for congressmanjimjordan and cast their ballots for congressmanjim jordan of ohio. that already means that mr mccarthy cannot take the speakers chair i...

Mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had _ mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had a _ mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had a roll - mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had a roll call - of the process we had a roll call earlier and it pretty quickly moved on to the vote itself. each member of the house of representatives needed to come forward and cast their ballot. three official candidates one on the democrat side into ...

Violation of all international norms, laws, and israels pledges to the american president. in the uk forfive days after the american president. in the uk for five days after industrial action by world workers. the last few minutes we have learned that kevin mccarthy has failed in his bid to become speaker of the house of representatives. these are like pictures from the capital hill could see mr mccarthy talking to colleagues, smiling a little as well but this will not have been what he wanted. ...

Vote, and that is if mccarthy cannot get there to 218, who can? steve scalise would also fall short, and so the same group that mccarthy cut with the hard-line members would fall short of the member, and those who dont like those concessions said they would not support that with any other speaker candidate with all kinds of speaker problems here. >> and melissa, does the former president trump, does he have a role to play here? >> well, he is a major fact in that -- think of this, and some of th...

Essentially would give away much of his authority and allow critics to fire him at any moment however, he has been struggling to lock down the votes and so i am told that he has been having phone calls all week with some of his critics and made an offer to them to come down on that threshold. in fact, he has offered to go as low as a five-person threshold to trigger the motion to vacate the speakers chair. that would be a major concession for him. the trick for kevin mccarthy is that he cant aff...

Backed it has been nearly 100 years since a vote for house speaker went to mobile ballots on the house floor. a new nbc news reports suggest that might be exactly where were headed as kevin mccarthy sort of secured the 2:18 votes needed to be elected speaker january. joining us now is terrible mary. shes a senior political reporter at putt news. tara, thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. what is the likelihood at this point, considering the folks even talking to on the hill right now...

For the majority leader job. he said that hell have to gauge how his conference decides what to do thursday when it comes to a critical vote in the house republican conference. heres what he had to say. >> im not a candidate. the candidacy goes through thursday and ill support the nominee. my whole thesis here is that, unfortunately, kevin mccarthy, as current majority leader, does not have enough support. >> reporter: after this thursday vote, theres going to be a vote on the house floor, octob...