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Committee, you control ultimately, under this new scenario, what bill gets to the floor, correct? >> what bill and how its dealt with. you control whether there are amendments to the bill. in other words, representatives could add and have voted on amendments on the floor. you control how many minutes are debated, how many -- what the threshold is, what the quorum looks like. if you control the rules committee, you control everything in the house of representatives as far as bringing legislation...

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Day down the road, because theres always going to be this balancing act. i just want to talk about this making progress. gop sources are still saying to me, to paraphrase a line from james carville, its about the math, stupid. and so even if he shows some progress, he gets 10, 11, 12, we cannot say this enough and no one seems to know, by the way, how many solid never kevins but he can only lose four. >> the clerk is just gaveled in. lets just take a listen to see -- >> the house will be in orde...

With a group of Republicans holding out against the candidacy of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the election of a new House speaker has hit a stalemate, and the House cannot begin business until a speaker is chosen. The Onion takes a step-by-step look at how the speaker of the House is elected.

0 good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. its january 6th. the anniversary of an insurrection that almost destroyed our democracy. today the white house and the nation commemorate the civilian and law enforcement heroes and the victims of that terrible day, even as the house chamber is no longer a literal battleground, it is now torn apart by political combat. a divide among republican factions creating a new crisis of government. on this date in 2021, lawmakers were wearing gas masks and ta...

Want. they dont want kevin mccarthy. >> right. >> it is personal. and not to use the joke twice but welcome to day two of the republican majority. this is a mess. this is a disaster. >> lets listen in to the clerk of the house. >> for a quorum. >> want to take that row there? >> okay, so its a quorum call right now, jamie. please continue. >> this is obviously a disaster for kevin mccarthy and no matter how many times he walks by the cameras and says to manu and the rest of our team, you know, w...

Things, and the negotiations, it is simply about member to member. trying to get them and sway them. every indication we have from mccarthy and his allies is that he will fight the long fight here and continue to try to hold his group together at some point it becomes untenable but when that is we dont know. remember, you have to have the quorum, the exact amount of people. if you have fewer in that chamber, the number, the magic number is fewer. either on the democratic or a republican side, if...

Go away entirely and is there some play behind the scenes between scalise, elise stefanik and maybe other people. >> back to jake in d.c. >> jake. >> thanks. lets bring in lauren fox on the hill to tell us more about whats going on during this moment of chaos and confusion. >> reporter: yeah, jake, i mean democrats are starting to realize that this is going to be a very long night, in fact, preparing their members for that reality and reminding them they have to stay on the particular because if...

Capitol hill? >> right now kevin mccarthy does not have the votes. the more members who cast ballots for someone finding other than kevin mccarthy that is worse for kevin mccarthy. right now we have five votes for andy biggs. we have three votes for the persons here jim banks of indiana, jim jordan and another person getting the vote as well. so the more votes that have a mccarthy does not get my name and someone doesnt vote present, that is bad news for him here that is why early on in the vote...

0 >> mccormick? >> jeffries. chu? >> jeffries. >> cicilline? >> very proudly, hakeem hakeem jeffries. >> mccarthy. clark of massachusetts? >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. clarke of new york? >> the bad, brilliant brotha from brooklyn. [laughter] >> jeffries. cleaver? >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. cline? >> kevin mccarthy. >> mccarthy. >> cliburn. >> jeffries. >> clyde. biggs. cohen >> [indistinct] hakeem jeffries! >> jeffries! [applause] >> cole. carthy. >> collins... mccarthy. comer... mcca...