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A speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. >> 11 times. mccarthy is differenting the laundry list of concessions in his quest to become speaker while acknowledging there is no time table for a solution. >> no, no, not putting any timeline on it. we have some progress going on, we have members talking. i think weve got a little movement, so well see. >> joining us now to talk about everything that has happened, all the failed votes, is republic...

Havent heard from ogles. were seeing -- >> theyre going back to. >> gosar, here he goes. >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ] >> gosar went to mccarthy. you saw surprised looks on the faces of individuals. >> you could really see that conversation between gaetz and gosar, gosar almost seemed to be apologizing saying something to the effect, sorry, man, i got to go with kevin. >> i got to get on this train before im completely left behind on the platform. >> i want to go back as we l...

What were trying to achieve. ite not the end of the world we take a few extra days or weeks to sort it out. there are some days in congress where the only thing we vote on is the changing of the name of one post office. were deciding whos second in line to the presidency. and the construct of the rules concessions functionally term the speakership to a ceremonial position. if my colleagues get what they want from mccarthy, the freedom caucus will be more important, amendments were process and wh...

Personal matter, but i am now told from a democratic source that he is on his way back. why would he be on his way back? because in the complicated math of having to win a majority of those voting on the floor other than those voting present who do not count, right now kevin mccarthy only needs to pick up three republicans to get the magic number 216 to become speaker, but this democrat tells me and im no math expert, but this is what they say, they have people who do this professionally, if dav...

Those far right members still holding out, looks like they will get much desired prime slots on key committees, appropriations, rules and deals, and able to vacate at a threshold of one member. any member of the house can call for a vote to remove the speaker at any time. that comes with the promise the tool wont be misused. despite all of that, it still will not necessarily assure mccarthy the speakership because nbc news sources are not even certain how many votes phase one of this deal would ...

Cheekiness in the house. when we take a look at the math, any way you cut it, hes got to get three more votes and whether he gets those from people who voted for others flip or maybe like trone, there are different ways to get to the magic number. but im just wondering what you make, bret and martha, of the fact that the house freedom caucus chair scott perry changed his vote, he said he was open to changing it, unlike matt gaetz. dan bishop and chip roy. they must have gotten a promise from mcc...

Of 2021. >> how did she put that puzzle together? >> person to person, asking people what they needed, what asl asl assurances they needed. she reduced the threshold she needed. she won with 216 votes. the point is, you know, she was a very daft leader. and this is a leadership test for mccarthy. and frankly, hes not doing very well. last thing on this though. weve been beating him up all day because it has been a failure on his part, and he didnt look particularly confident there. when jamie da...

The powerful rules committee. they also want a vote on term limits. a stand alone votes on appropriation bills and lowering the threshold on the motion to vacate the speaker chair from five people to now a single member. these are significant. there is concern, guys, that mccarthy may lose some moderates who think he is giving away way too much. matt gaetz says nothing will be good enough for him to ever vote for mccarthy and he is taking shots at the new concessions. >> the construct of these r...

Hear me, thank you anyway. lauren fox joins us now. run us through what kevin mccarthy is thinking about giving away even further to these hard-liners if theres anything left to give. >> reporter: he made it clear on this call just a little over an hour ago that there wasnt an agreement yet with those hard-liners, jake. thats significant. we do know what hes already given up and it is so significant in terms of the power the speaker would have in the future. one of those thing, of course, loweri...

Excrutiating for the mccarthy alice. >> buck and hunt, trone was the democrat, lowers the majority needed to 217 as chad was describing. martha, a couple other scenarios chad has been previewing as this has been going on. they could also decide, i dont know how likely this is, but decide as has happened in history to lower the threshold to not having to actually get a majority, to brets point, the first time mccarthy has had more votes than jeffries and just decide to go with who is getting and ...