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and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. >> 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthys rolling humiliation for this evening. >> manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they a...

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...

that means traveling from coast to coast are stranded. some of them forced to drive thousands of miles. >> we were at the airport at noontime on sunday, finally made the call at 10:30 p.m., that we could not afford to lose any more time if we were going to drive. >> i cant rely on southwest to get the family home, so we maid need to leave a little early to drive ourselves home. >> the kreismt on the blaming the travel disaster on schedule and outdated infrastructure. the ruling that ...

lets hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin t...

elect a speaker since the 1850s continues to play out. he has not yet reached a deal with the senate, mccarthy remains optimistic. lawmaker reportedly even making more concessions to hard line conservatives, some say they still will not support him. >> sandra: we will likely know a whole lot more as the minutes go on here. we are watching it with you. some mccarthy allies are acknowledge never enough compromise for some hold-outs. warren davidson is backing mccarthys bid but more than ...

432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. lets get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? >> neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. >> i think y...

his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. theyre drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. its not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be spea...

a full report from idaho is just ahead. biden intends to visit the southern border for the first time since he left office. take a look at what biden said in the past about the border visit and the common sense department is wondering what changed. we begin in the nations capital where they adjourn without electing a speaker for a second straight day. kevin cork is live in dc with the latest. >> three more failed votes today. a round of closed door talks to boot. and congressman-elect ...

good evening to you lawrence! >> it evening alex. i have a funny feeling that tomorrow will be very much like today. well see how far we debt whether we have a speaker or not. but we want to see a lot of same stuff tomorrow. >> i think that the official term is groundhog day, congress. >> while there is that! we will see. kevin mccarthy might, he might be on his way to breaking the hundred year old record of number of votes most since -- i think like nine is the most that we have for. ...

ruhle starts now ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight, after two days and six separate votes, there is still no speaker of the house. the divide in the republican party, as both sides signal theyre not giving up without a fight. republican lauren boebert is here to explain her beef with ken mccarthy. and as the house is divided in washington, a rare moment of bipartisanship in kentucky. what the next two years of a split government may look like as the 11th hour gets underway on this very important ...