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control room to pull you have a live shot of the house floor. this is happening. we re about halfway through the alphabet. you see the shot of former house speaker, nancy pelosi. 14 members so far. 15 members so far have chosen somebody other than mccarthy. the vote is not final. the vote is not gavelled, however, if this holds, he will not be speaker for time number two. ali, what happens for time number three? what s the next card to play? that s the next question especially as you have members like chip roy of texas vowing he will still continue to hold mccarthy to a count on a whole list of concessions that he s been trying to get the leader to make over the course of the last few weeks and months. they have made inroads here. these members like roy. who chairs those committees and has prioritized for them, but especially to this idea of the motion to vacate. it s a move that would weaken the speaker and make it easier to oust members. mccarthy holding to a compro ....
Colleagues just all talking together. some of our colleagues off of the house floor talking with the key members who are against mccarthy on this. people like bob good, chip roy. others who are vowing they will not back down from their positions. and so as we start what is likely to be the third ballot here, the open question is going to be if this third bat lot will look exactly like the second one did. one member in the jim jordan camp seemed to say that was a ballot that happened without any talking or whipping of people who might want to vote for jordan. so that was someone who was trying say maybe mccarthy could lose more votes. right. back to what i was saying earlier, if that happens, that could really change the dynamic here. it could show that these hard yeses may be aren t as hard as people thought they were. again, we don t know anything until they go to another ballot. for now, we have no reason to expect that the next ballot is ....
According to the latest data from nbc analysis and candidates across the country are hitting the trail for last full day of campaigning. we have a great team here. our road warriors are in areas where the races are to watch. as we head into this midterm, i want to take a look at factors that could have a major impact. according to a new poll, the president s approval rating is at 46%. that is a sickle point increase since october. both parties are showing record enthusiasm in early turnout but when it comes to the generic congressional bat lot, democrats hold a seven point lead. it s not rhetoric, it s not hate. it s things that matter. health care. the economy. and so so many people simply want to unify this country. those are the issues topping the ....
well, sequestration is a washington word that no one knows what it means. these are modest cuts except on the military side. the military is only 20% of budget, 50% of the cuts are coming from the military, and i shouldn t even use the words cuts. i m falling into that trap again. neil: that s right. we re shaving the growth. this year and next year and every year for the next ten years than we spent last year. neil: what does that tell you? if cutting what amounts amountsa rounding error creates this big dustup and panic, we have to get serious. not going to be able to do it. we have to balance our budget in ten years and this should be just the beginning of the things weed in to trim become. unfortunately we re not talking bat lot of things where we can save a lot of money by letting the states do more and do it better. ....