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Tonight. >> thats exactly right. after the house adjourned yesterday, both supporters and opposers of kevin mccarthy entered these closed door negotiations, and they were sort of discussing what could come out of, how can we break the stalemate and gain support for kevin mccarthy. several outlets have reported that kevin mccarthy put forward a proposal that gave into a number of those key concessions that republicans had been asking for that had been holdouts to supporting mccarthy. among that, ...

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...

Sure whats not at this point. join me now is pollster frank luntz, a friend of mccarthy. im glad you are here. first, youve known him for 29 years. and just thinking about the concessions that now have been agreed to or at least tentatively agreed to, in part, to get that 218 votes, what does the willingness to make these deals still tell you about how badly mccarthy wants this position? i mean, it could just be a fleeting hope if you have that one person threshold. >> i have empathy for the mem...

>> do you have a deal with those guys right now? >> a lot of progress. >> he says a lot of progress. were following that progress this morning across the capital and washington. full team on standby. lauren fox, lets kick things off with you. you have a little more information on this meeting with the mccarthy holdouts. what are you learning? >> reporter: we expect this meeting is going to be really important because it is a key sign of whether or not these lawmakers are going to get behind kevi...

Us and they are waiting for kevin to cave. >> jesse: judge jeanine, we are in day three? how does it feel? how do you feel about this? >> judge jeanine: i feel angry, they are making the republicans look ridiculous. i like kevin mccarthy and why was this not done ahead of time? why are we doing this in front of the public? we look like a bunch of fools and lauren boebert, all due respect, the women barely won her race and holding out until kevin falls. whats the alternative? what do you want and...

Back to the question of how broken the democracy is, because we are now at the place of the impasse where we are talking about whether or not people can be shamed. it is not about shame. we know that shame is gone. but accountability. who is matt gaetz think that he is accountable to? the people who follow him on twitter or instagram. so again, when you are thinking of maybe that we are able to get move 10, but you will have another 10 that seem to be immovable, and david urban says to lock them...

Peter baker, jake sherman and brendan buck, a senior adviser to boehner and ryan. tell me what is happening right now on capitol hill. >> reporter: just feet from us is kevin mccarthys office. the speaker eegs office, not his office, but the office hes currently occupying. the fact that conservatives are suting down with the leadership, the fact that mccarthy is giving up even more concessions, seats on the powerful rules committee, which sets the floor procedure for the house of representatives...

The republican party, the republican study group and theyre trying to throw open the doors and invite more dissenters over and see if they can get any momentum behind somebody else who isnt kevin mccarthy. so a divergence in the strategy opposed to mccarthy and mccarthy is trying to play along game largely off the floor with his lieutenants doing a lot of the talking on his behalf. >> once he has given away the one-vote threshold, what was left and if you give that away and you still dont get an...

Speakers office, negotiating with mccarthy. theyve been saying of the concessions that were offered overnight, they dont have firm commitments that it actually moved any of these defectors. but we will see in 58 minutes from now as they start heading to the floor. theyre supposed to come back at noon. to give you a sense of where things stand, the concessions that were offered -- and there are some in mccarthys orbit who argue these were not concessions at all, but among them is this motion to v...

Vote to mccarthy or present, thats progress. and if chip can live up to the commitment to get ten people to come with him, i think youll start to see some pressure going toward mccarthy and progress going toward mccarthy too. >> certainly not the only reason i was told that they adjourned at 8:00 p.m. because of a threat of a nomination but one reason i was told and we also heard negotiations were ongoing but as you note, how successful could they have been if mccarthy gave a lot of the things t...