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Nope. that comes of course from congressman lauren boebert that we don't want you a total of 11 times this week. this, frankly, is nothing like any of us have seen at least in our lifetimes. we may have heard about it, we may have read about to knowing it could happen, but this is the longest speaker contest in 164 years. now, i don't want to scare you all the way, but back in 1855 the contest for speaker at that time it went for 133 ballots. so right now we are in the small potatoes category of all of this. but here we are tonight, 11 votes, and there is still not a speaker of the house. and ...

Lot of concessions that have been made. many of the members that are -- abscess ed, he's given us everything we've asked for. we're still not gonna vote for him. so, i'm wondering, does this man wanted us to be subjected to months to a year of not being sworn in, the house not being organized, is he gonna sit through 33 votes, and go back to 1859, that was the last time that happened. >> oh no! >> 133 votes, which is 1855 that's happened. again, also, what does this say about you. when the objection to your leadership is similar in history to the objection of leadership that people had. pre ci...

I mean, what kind of leadership have they shown to the american people? and, you know, i think it's also really important to remember and i think you were just talking about this in the previous segment, there's a lot of concessions that have been made, many of the members that are the hold-outs have said, he's given us everything we've asked for. we're still not going to vote for him and so i'm wondering, right, does this man want us to be subjected to months, to a year of not being sworn in of the house not being organized. is he going to sit through 33 votes and go back to, you know, 1859, ...

Raju in a moment, kevin mccarthy has suffered what many are calling five humiliating defeats. that was just today, and you can add that to what happened in the past several days. his own party has told him, no, that comes from congressman laura boebert, that we don't want you. a total of 11 times this week. this frankly is nothing like any of us have seen, at least in our lifetimes. we've heard about it, may have read about it, known that it could've happened, but this is the longest speaker contests in 164 years. i don't want to scare you all the way but back in 1855, the contest respeaker at...

Dependentant on him and he needs to show that he can work with people and bring all of us together. >> so this has happened in history before, but it's been 100 years since the last time it happened, 1923. and it hasn't gone to this many ballots any time other than four times in the first half of the 1800s, and maybe like right after, 1855, i think as well and 1859. my point is, it was right before the american civil war. i'm wondering if you think the fact it has not been this complicated since right before the american civil war says something about where we are in our politics. >> well, i t...