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Constructive way to campaign back home. im going to help anyway i can. >> donalds was spelling one a concession that he wants to see from mccarthy and thats lowering the threshold of a number of members it takes to call the vote for speaker from five oh just one. that is a key ask. we will see if it makes a difference and delivers mccarthy the vote even if he did agree to it. >> appreciate it. back with the team in new york. the idea of lowering the number to just one? >> insane. >> what with wo...

They dont bring his number up. and they bring jeffries now within five votes of that threshold. so what garrett was saying is what the motivation for spartz was, you cant imagine it was to help mccarthy. is that a half step away from kevin mccarthy? if so, we were saying this whole fourth round is any movement. is mccarthy winning over any of the 20 that hadnt voted. the answer is no. none of the 20 flipped and voted for him on this. the second question was any previous mccarthy supporters chang...

And its not like these talks have just started. these are people who have been negotiating with kevin mccarthy on behalf of kevin mccarthy, over the course of the last several weeks. i asked one of his top allies involved with those negotiations last night whats different about talking now as opposed to over the course of the last few weeks. this person said its a matter of time. thats really what its probably going to take here on capitol hill. these waiting hours before they get back on the fl...

>> 217. >> thats my point. so her present vote -- its negligible. >> she made it harder for mccarthy. >> if all the democrats keep voting for hakeem jeffries the republicans cannot lower the threshold. if they lower it too much they will elect hakeem jeffries speaker. >> if they lower 212, hakeem jeffries will have the votes. >> trump did not move the needle at all on that vote. >> exactly. >> fascinating because the 20 -- >> good point. >> 20 rebels are all ultra maga super ultra maga. >> rump ...

Does seem like the frustration is boiling over. >> is there a bill to vote democrats and leave the floor and bring the threshold down so mccarthy is able to win over ten but not 14 of these or whatever the number is that is needed and what might that look like? would democrats be willing to do that for? >> so ive been asking that question. i answer is so far no. there is no desire to do that. one possibility would be to get a plurality. weve been talking about this. in this sscenario, you need 2...

With mitch mcconnell and joe biden who will say the responsible thing for any government to do is raise the debt ceiling, yessing with negotiate some tradeoffs, policy change, but the responsible thing to do in the end is cut the deal and vote yes, well then they are going to say bye. theyre going to come after whoever is speaker, whether its kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, or anybody else. >> once again, theyre bringing that threshold back down to one person. so that would be one way his life as...

Ridiculous. the democrats were smart when they took the majority and raised the threshold to 50. and mccarthy would like to bring it down to five, but, i dont imagine why they would concede to something like this. its time to stop appeasing these people. >> and also is it about that rule even? >> i mean, this has been going back to where they were in the past, lowering it to one, they seemed to settle on five and be fine with it. um, and, agree to that. so, this is, again, it isnt about these mi...

These are the scenarios to win. if all members vote, if everybody is there you need a majority cast by name. thats important. majority of the votes cast for a candidate by name. excuse me. so its a 218 threshold. 218 votes if everybody votes and everybody vote force somebody by name. thats unlikely to happen. thats how you get started. the threshold drops by one, that 218 number drops by one for every two members who do not vote or vote present that take themselves out of cassianing by name. kev...

For him to be speaker are digging in. they do not want to give these 19 members a win because they will have no leverage going into a brand-new majority. theres really nothing more kevin can give. i mean, kevin has given on the rules package more than what any of the 85% wanted him to give. so now its time to see if those 85% are going to stand strong. there is absolutely no discussion right now in those ranks of a new candidate, so this is going to be a long night and i think pressure is going ...

Mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had _ mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had a _ mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had a roll - mccarthy cannot get there. in terms of the process we had a roll call - of the process we had a roll call earlier and it pretty quickly moved on to the vote itself. each member of the house of representatives needed to come forward and cast their ballot. three official candidates one on the democrat side into ...