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They're doing somewhat of a conference meeting on the house floor without having to do the motion to adjourn. i think if they go right into this sixth vote, the key vote you want to look at is ken buck. is ken buck going to stick with kevin mccarthy on this sixth vote or live up to what he said a few minutes ago on air with you and vote for someone else? if he votes for someone else, then i would expect the motion to adjourn, and i would expect republicans to sit down and talk about these things. it's interesting that, you know, you're starting to see the conversation that played out on the ho...

>> jeffries. >> buchanan. mccarthy. buck, -- buck? bouchon. mccarthy. b b budzin ski, jeffries. >> so ken buck as far as we could tell did not vote when his name was called. that's not all that unusual because at the end of the roll call on a vote, they normally go after any strag lers that there might have been. we were watching ken buck because he was a mccarthy supporter and he voted for him five times but he said that was the last time he could count on his vote. i wanted to see if there was continued erosion of mccarthy

Sans speaker. kevin mccarthy failing again on a fifth ballot to capture the necessary number of votes, the number of opponents among house republicans has actually gone up from 19 to 20, to 21. now republicans are looking for a way out, an exit strategy. is that tossing mccarthy to the curb? is that brokering a deal with democrats to lower the vote? they have to get these 23 rebels on board. me melanie zanona is with us. what's happening here? >> reporter: republicans are searching for an offramp as it's become clear that kevin mccarthy's efforts to win over his opposition not working. i'm tol...

Gettable? >> no. no, matt gaetz is not gettable. and i don't think the majority of the 20 or so people voting for someone other than kevin mccarthy are gettable. i can't stop thinking about lauren boeberts speech. donald trump created these people. but, now they're like the robots in "terminator" becoming self-aware and taking over. >> listen, chip roy may be gettable, but, the numbers, i see no path to victory for kevin mccarthy, the fact that all day they're on the floor and walking around and not having these conversations or making these negotiations, he hasn't flipped a single vote. the f...

Ken buck was considering voting against kevin mccarthy, i'm told, but was urged by the republican leadership to stick with mccarthy. he's indicating for now he's sticking with him. matt gaetz, one of those key detractors of course, unlikely he'll ultimately come to kevin mccarthy's side, but others within that 20 group block are still -- the mccarthy team believes, they are gettable. the conversation comes as we go to the next vote, we expect to go a sixth speaker ballot vote. they will try to adjourn the house and move to the negotiating session among those members, but in order to adjourn th...