speaker. we do know house republicans joined a conference call to talk about a possible new deal on the table. but multiple people on the call tell nbc news, kevin mccarthy acknowledges he still does not have enough votes to become speaker after 11 rounds. we spoke with kevin mccarthy ahead of that call and this is what he this is all leaving one-third of our government functionally paralyzed just as the nation marks the second anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol. politico making the note that, quote, a handful of republicans who remained in the january 6th sights throughout its investigations are now leading the effort to deny mccarthy the speakership. one officer who defended lawmakers on january 6th pointed out the irony of what s happening on the hill right now. no matter what anybody s thoughts about which way it s going, the right that think the fact that they have the right to be able to do that in a safe environment is kind of what we provided
kevin hern s mother s died this week. this is daddy duty. jimmy gomez brought his baby to the house floor. he s been bottle feeding and changing diapers in the backroom. democrats as well. what are the implications for mccarthy with these very realistic things? i ve got a funeral, my mom died, my wife just had a baby and i m sick. these are the kinds of things that you always deal with as running a legislature. the problem is, there usually aren t such high stakes. there isn t such a small, narrow majority. weekend sessions are rare because people have lives and they have things going on. and you always miss people. but the stakes aren t usually so high. look, i don t think kevin mccarthy wants people to go home for the weekend. his whole play here is pressure and keeping people here and wearing them out. and i think sending people home, letting them get refreshed and do whatever they want to do will
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with its weekend sessions. we don t know exactly if the president will pick up with the same theme of going against the witnesses by tweeting about them or talking about them, but we could certainly expect he ll talk about the impeachment inquiry more broadly as we have seen him do day in day out. . let s bring back emily no and dave leventhal. dave, how difficult did the president make it for the gop to deal with yovanovitch s testimony with his tweets? one has to wonder if the president in a way has written his own article of impeachment, which could be witness tampering before the house is going to be considering a number of different things in terms of ultimately putting forward articles of impeachment. that includes abuse of power. that includes obstruction of justice going back to the mueller report, obstruction of congress and not going ahead and responding to subpoenas that are going forward, and the notion that the president is tweeting at a witness while she s quite