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♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: well goodnight, or good morning, it is two a.m. on the east coast. one a.m. an iowa where donald trump was declared the winner. a record shattering a win, the former president conjures up a pretty big question is this race over before it has begun? >> i'm abby philip here in washington, and you are watching cnn's special live coverage of the cnn caucuses. the results of the hawkeye state are echoing across the nation, but what exactly are the message that voters sent tonight. it might very well be that the trump brand is still gold as gold with republicans so...

>> [inaudible] >> more on this in a moment, but let's get right to the very latest on capitol hill. cnn's monumental mona is there tonight, you have some new reporting i understand with negotiations. any movement, what is going on? >> not quite yet, laura. all the negotiations have wrapped up for the night, the people who are in some of these key meetings have left the building, and not a single person who voted against kevin mccarthy on the house floor has said they are going to change their votes just yet. now kevin mccarthy did make an offer to these members, there is some sort of...

right? it also buys time for more negotiations to take place behind closed doors after kevin mccarthy suffered five more defeats today for a total now of 11. so, what's gonna happen in just a few hours? how will that change things, he hasn't seen the progress yet? plus, we have new news on the buffalo bills damar hamlin. he is awake and making remarkable progress just three days after he collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during monday night football. the nfl has officially canceled that game, and cnn has newly-obtained audio from the moment hamlin collapsed. >> i don't like ho...

Going to happen to the next guy? the holdouts are not saying we are ready to coalesce around this other person who actually could win the majority and the caucus support. they are still in a standoff and he is waiting for them to blink, and as long as most republicans in the caucus support him he has the ability to do that. >> by the way, you mentioned this point as well, about the perception that some of the holdouts were slighted by him during the election process. i, mean the mccarthy pack has given $316,000 to those who are now opposing him. to the likes of scott perry, andy harris, michae...

Now we have strong caucus support for the framework for build back better. something i wanted to say is that, you know, the speaker talked about lifting the president as he lands in europe and as he visits with foreign leaders, as he visits with pope fra frances. i would tell you, if you were in that caucus today, you would have felt the lift our caucus, when he asked for the vote, the applause, the standing ovation he received on the framework and many elements in it was just extraordinary. so, i think we sent him off with a lift. i'm not sure of the clock on the bipartisan infrastructure bil...