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from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to -- we begin with breaking news and atlanta. a historic event today, as president biden honors dr. martin luther king junior on what would've been his 94th birthday. it is the first time, in fact, that a sitting president has delivered a sunday sermon and ebenezer church. here is what he said. >> on a stay of moran, says we gather here in this cherished of bunnies or, to commemorate what would've been dr. king's 94th birthday. we gathered to contemplates his moral vision, and to commit ourselves to his path, to his pa...

just a short time ago cnn's manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn's melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy's frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it's been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we've seen supporters going into his office. we're told he has been wo...

>> no person, having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> so, they voted again. >> no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> so, the third time was not the charm. and this lasted for almost five hours. we're talking about three consecutive ballots. and they could not elect a speaker of the house. and this was frankly a once in a century occurrence. this hasn't happened in the last 100 years, not to be able to finalize who was going to be your...

welcome to "the lead" i'm jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i've never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let's go to manu raju on capitol hil...

house republicans as was the indication 100 years ago are denying the man who thought he would be speaker in this case, kevin mccarthy, the necessary votes to win the speakers gavel. meaning that, right now, the house is completely paralyzed. we do not have a speaker, official members of congress or rules. and the math is frankly, only getting worse for kevin mccarthy. as the process drags out, the total number of republicans not voting for him is going up. the total number of republicans voting for him is going down. let's go straight to cnn's congressional correspondent manu raju. ...