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in this moment its unclear if there is any concession they will accept beyond kevin mccarthy taking his name out of consideration. unclear if the house adjourns as soon as it gavels in or the opposition is going to force mccarthy to stomach another vote and likely public humiliation. cnns capitol hill team is tracking every development on very little sleep. lets check in with manu raju. manu, mccarthy allies remain worried and now theyre worried that they might even begin to hemorrhage...

tonight on "the reidout" -- >> no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. >> and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled wi...

world. this is a special edition of "the situation room" and the vote for speaker. >> good evening to you, wolf. good evening to all. im erin burnett. were following kevin mccarthys failure to lock down the votes he needed to win that speakers gavel, wolf. >> that fight plunging the republican party right now into a truly historic struggle on the floor. as of tonight, despite losing three votes, mccarthy remains defiant, refusing to give up, despite a band of some 20 right wing lawmake...

That much was clear this morning, when they were talking with reporters, and it has certainly sustained itself throughout the day. the mccarthy strategy was also to keep people on the floor and just eventually wear them out, be able to make inroads by the sheer force of putting people on the floor. those conservative lawmakers, though, didnt blink. the reality is true that they are both nominating the guy, jim jordan, who is nominating kevin mccarthy, the guy does not want to be speaker, but at ...

Any more concessions and frankly, these guys just want to take down kevin mccarthy but the mccarthy strategy is to split this group and try to pick them off one at a time. now, thats a tall order because they would need to pick of 16 of them. theres 20 defectors, well see what the number is today but 20 defectors so they need to take that many back. isolate them and you have to use heavy-handed tactics to do that at this point. i dont think you can use carrots right now. i think now theyre bring...

Republican leadership. >> to the point, once they get past this, what does the rest of the republican majority look like? i think were getting a good indication of that. kevin mccarthy is in an incredibly precarious position. this morning his allies were out on television, on cnn if its one vote or 100, theyll be with kevin mccarthy on this. he didnt want them to adjourn. they have now adjourned. the question is what changed for kevin mccarthy ben now and then and what is he going to do for the ...

Has not happen in the house before for a select committee by the historians, its an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. >> now, mccarthy strategy was pretty obvious at the time he was trying to stop the committee with trump allies who would do anything in their power to disrupt the investigation, they all program to be illegitimate and the loudest of them, the person who would run points on that would be jim jordan. speaker pelosi rejected jordans appointment to the com...

The syrian crisis. and were talking about susan rice. i mean, excuse me, lets focus on the things that really count. >> okay. >> and a foreign policy that, frankly, doesnt exist. we have -- were at a mementos time. the president was right on one thing and that is that the world is a tremendous mess at the moment. >> were going to move on and talk about what exactly is our foreign policy. john, i want to get you in before we do. what do you say to this? >> just at the moment, were living in a wor...