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making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what weve seen in this chamber is tough. its tough to watch. its tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? thats why its important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of...

the house this morning. lawmakers set to vote again in two hours. but gop leader kevin mccarthy has put up a new offer he hopes will win over a faction of his party. that has been fighting against his candidate us is. what hes giving up now and why it might hurt him with moderates. also what is president trump trumps roul roel? hes made call to holdouts asking them to vote for mccarthy. what they told him to do instead and why hes now predicting a big win today. plus the man accused ...

Supporters. but progress is progress. he has to get through today and get to tomorrow. >> progress is progress. he has to get through today and tomorrow. there are whispers getting louder about potential other candidates for speaker. one of them is steve scalise. is he going to be if his name comes up and if he decides to move into that position, kevin mccarthy, could he get enough votes with these never kevin people who are are also kind of never leadership people. >> yeah, thats an important d...

Congressman, those conversations that you said youve had with what you describe as seven or eight -- people have been saying five, six. youre saying seven or eight people who will absolutely never vote for kevin mccarthy. how are those conversations when you have them? are they being rational? are they defining in any way what theyre for, as you said, as opposed to what theyre against? which we all know is kevin mccarthy. >> well, i think every one of these people have said where their threshold...

Meaning they dont have 218 votes to adjourn. so thats why this is continuing to go on and on and on. now, behind the scenes there are negotiations that are happening. and that is really what could be key here. because if they make progress on those negotiations, significant progress, actually shake hands, come to some sort of of tentative agreement, that could change the dynamic tonight. and i am told from a source that is directly involved in these talks that their hope is to get that deal toni...

Just took a while to materialize. teams of people have gotten back together, and there is some progress, headway. and thats essentially what its going to take. groups of people that will then come to some agreement. so its my understanding that were headed that direction right now. >> okay. if youre headed in that direction, if thats what happens and you do get a few votes tonight, obviously you need more than a few. >> thats right. >> you need to get some of those individuals who have said they...

To get some understanding. its just been a longer process than what we would have wanted. and its been a public debate and that makes it even harder. and so were going to keep moving. republicans are still trying to stick together and get together. and i think getting three or four, five more people will be progress. >> he three or four or five -- well, it would be the first movement weve seen in days. but there are a few complicating factors. and let me ask you about one of them, congressman. a...

Apparently need to leave town as well. but the issue on the republican side, that means if there are four republicans that are leaving, assuming theyre in the pro-mccarthy camp thats not helpful for his quest to get to 218. so theyre hoping that they can reach? s some sort of agreement with the republicans and get a vote to adjourn the chamber, potentially adjourning until monday. if they can get an agreement or make some progress within the next 24 hours. because the democrats im told are not w...

The decision has to be made there also. >> and so where are you in your bottom line right now? do you still believe that the outcome of this is going to be speaker kevin mccarthy or not? >> if you listen to the hardest-core seven or eight, they have told me they will never yield. >> so the hardest-core seven or eight will never yield. that means no speaker mccarthy unless you get there some other way. a rules change, you work with democrats. are you now entertaining that idea? >> no. no. i think...

An incredible breakthrough for them, scott. if that were to happen, big if, there is something psychological that would then play out. i dont know how. but it would. so when hes saying it could influence others, its possible, right? were looking at -- that is conceivable. >> yeah. i mean, progress is better than no progress. but then, you know, two seconds later he tells you theres seven or eight -- >> seven or eight, which by the way weve been saying dpfive or six. >> he was down to six or seve...