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Forward. >> and in the rules of the notice to vacate, and the rules of the speaker of the house, and being the speaker of the house, and somebody wants the job, and what a thankless job to be. >> and how do you pass a rules package, because if i am moderate, and i voted against him, i will then vote against the rules. >> and charlie, what if that is the price to get them to vote for the alternative candidate? >> that is how you get at coalition speakership with the democrats. >> seems unlikely. ...

0 >> john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. >> sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. >> martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. im martha maccallum live in our natio...

Negotiate with people who, frankly, arent acting in good faith. its hard to nail them down on certain things. he has been making concessions. he put out a rules package that would lower the threshold, not as far as they wanted, but lower on the motion to vacate. doesnt seem to have gotten him anything because they dont want to come to the table. their goal is to go to the floor and defeat him and then negotiate. we may be entering, again, an unprecedented in modern times situation on the floor. ...

Issues and finalize a rules package and put that out over the weekend and then for mccarthy hes hoping that everything fall news place. but there is no guarantee that will happen and of course time is running out, wolf. >> not much time left. what happens if mccarthy doesnt get the votes needs by tuesday? how does this play out? >> so the house cannot conduct any other business until they elect a speaker. so if mccarthy cant get the votes on the first ballot, the house will keep voting until som...

Speaker at any moment. >> yeah, the rule theyre push fog is a motion to vacate. the reality is we all have to vote on those. that will be part of a rules package that will be passed, but they have to negotiate with all the of us. so theres a lot of us out there, like myself, who have been very vocal and continue to be vocal. im a part of a group thats been putting out a lot of letters to our colleagues, even on social media, well support mccarthy, no matter what. >> its been interesting to see t...

House. do you think the former presidents hold is still solid there? >> i think its stronger than it would seem based on trumps own political fortunes right now, which are decelerating. i think trumpism has a hold on these members because trumps political base is still what elects these members in republican primaries. i think that trump has control over certain districts more than others. he is still a big factor here, and i think thats what kinzinger is battling against. >> and melody, what ar...

Thinking how to punch back with things of their own. sources tell me that one of the things theyre consider something comfortabling a resolution to remove those hold-outs from their committees if they dont back down on multiple rounds of voting. something else the group is considering is voting against a rules package if it contains some of the most hard-line demands this group is seeking and then finally they have also publicly threatened to team up with democrats to elect a speaker, long shot ...

Whether to offer a resolution that would kick these members their committees assignments if the speakers race goes to multiple ballots. they ultimately decided to hold off on the idea for now worried it would backfire but they are discussing a number of other hardball tactics that includes voting against a rules package if it includes some of the most hard-line demands from mccarthys critics and theyve also publicly threatened to work with democrats to try to elect a speaker if they cant agree a...

To fight against the ndaa when we had the leverage to block it as republicans because democrats couldnt pass it. a bad ndaa bill without republican votes. on issue after issue and time after time, hes failed to support our efforts to fight against an oppressive democrat majority. >> laura: congressman, you caucus is pushing mccarthy to restore the motion to vacate, the house ruled ditched by the democrats and allows a single member to force a vote on the speakership at any given time. how big of...

Democratic senators were on this issue, you probably know the whip count better than i do. but beginning of every senate there is a rules package and were in a 50/50 senate. you guys had it. why not attempt talking filibuster. the incremental filibuster changes right that manchin says he needs to see before hes ready to say, lets give up on the whole thing. why didnt that occur then? was there not a debate about it? i understand not going for broke here, but why not try to reform the filibuster,...