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anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i don't think if you watch me that i get excited -- do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day it's better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. >> if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? >> you get to 218. >> this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after kevin mccarthy failed to win enough support in three rounds of voting. we'll walk through what ha...

no path to becoming speaker of the house because a bunch of conservative members of the republican conference have dug in against him. what has changed this morning? why should today be any different after the three failed votes yesterday? a couple things mccarthy is doing like send his allies fanning out across the conference, trying to get some members voting present instead of no. we'll talk about that in a second. keep in mind, the numbers here. mccarthy can only atord four defectors to become speaker. if everybody votes for a earn. he started with 19 tuesday. he finished off wit...

Chamber as rep elect gates was speaking and kennedy you have a feeling about his speech would you think? >> kennedy: i think he is a blowhard. i don't think he should be speaking about half of the party. you know, matt gaetz, god love you pure you are in this for matt gaetz. it's not really about kevin mccarthy, it's not about the house, it's not about the party, he wants to show us his great blow out and it is a distraction. i mean yesterday he nominated former president trump, today he nominated jim jordan. it's really, whatever he can say to get traction for himself. traction is a distracti...

And really speaks to the diminished power that the former president has in this party right now after, you know, midterms and shellacking that republicans -- well, i guess you can't call it shellacking. they did flip the house, but still trump's diminished power doesn't want to weigh in now because he doesn't want to look like he's backing a loser. you just hinted at. mccarthy has a real problem on his hands right now in that his detractors are furious his allies starting threatening them saying they could lose committee posts. the theory trying to argue he is owed the speakership because he r...

Leaving the party and registering as an independent. >> a growing number of arizonans and people like me don't feel like we fit neatly into a party's box. what is important about this decision and this move is to show up to work as an independent and not be stuck into one party's demands of following without thinking. >> the announcement came as a surprise but the move did not. she is quiet quitting the democratic party for years opposing key agenda items. but senate majority leader schumer assured the party that she would maintain the committee posts allowing democrats to keep the outright ma...