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0 heroic law enforcement officers. as congressman bennie thompson said, a man of honor himself eloquently said about these officers, he said "you held the line that day and what was on the line was our democracy and history will remember your names." history will remember your names. they'll remember your courage, they'll remember your bravery. they'll remember your extraordinary commitments to your fellow americans. it's not hyperbole. it's a fact. it's a fact. folks, history will also remember your instincts to respond to do something as you did. as we all watched, all america watched it. wa...

Is to elect a speaker. it's the only business it can do. the democrats hold and prevent adjournment and some of the 20 or whoever else vote against it, we will be at this for a while. keep in mind, the last time it was 100 ballots -- 100 years ago. we are on -- not even at ten. >> what's the bottom line message, to all those people you know who are about to go back in the room? >> my bottom line message is, the country or kevin mccarthy. which should have more weight? if you can continue to try to put kevin mccarthy in and not try to find an alternative, be it a republican or a consensus candi...

Put this in the republicans hands, and make this the republicans problem. so of all 212 democrats do indeed vote against adjourning right now, it means that republicans can afford no more than five defections. the sixth republican defection will be 218, that the majority, and a majority against adjournment, and mccarthy would be back facing another, vote and presumably another loss. so, again we've been tracking, there are 20 republicans all day who voted against mccarthy, voting for another candidate. there's a 21st republican who voted present on the last two votes. there's 21 republicans an...

>> it's hard to see the math. anderson? >> jake, thanks very much. the house vote to adjourn until noon tomorrow, we are waiting on that. joining us now, former pennsylvania republican congressman charlie dent and maggie haverman. do you think more time will help mccarthy? >> i think we gotta see if what jake tapper and his panel were talking about happens tonight. is the scalise play finally going to be introduced tonight? does it make any difference with those hardliners? is this an opening gambit of the scalise bid? will we see a collapse of mccarthy's vote total? he did not want this to ha...

The house the last 45 minutes or an hour. and, yet there are sort of objections, and then she let this vote run to 15 and a half minutes. so there's a lot of complicated stuff going on, that is not how these things normally work. >> usually that's because they're being run by one party or another, or josh would chafe who's indispensable fond of knowledge on all this. there's so much for time, tonight and sharing that knowledge with all of us. want to go back to donna edwards and david jolly, just to sort of address as where we are right now. i'll start with you david al come to you donna to st...