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Kind of consensus by bipartisan speaker. there is no question mccarthy loved that out there. that might force the hard-liners back into the fold if we had a deal with a chair shared arrangement with the democrats. i'm sure mccarthy loves that conversation that we're having right now. he thinks it might be some of the 19 back. >> i think it goes again to kevin mccarthy's failed strategy all along, whether it's floating this. i think it's kind of a cockamamy idea that somehow the democrats are going to help on a consensus candidate. that has been a bad strategy i think. going on fox news and hav...

To find another candidate. and another sign for concern of his, that byron donalds, who is a republican from florida, was one of those who voted for mccarthy on the first two ballot, but not on the third ballot. and that is a real fear among mccarthy allies that the opposition may only grow. >> and how are democrats viewing this? >> well, they have not made a decision yet on how to proceed. they do know at the moment they're planning to sit back and watch this chaos unfold. this house is paralyzed. it cannot move forward until they elect a speaker that is the first order of business. and that ...

Question mccarthy left that out. there that might force these hard-liners back into the poll if we had to deal with a shared arrangement with democrats. that was clearly, i'm sure mccarthy loves that conversation we're having right now. he thinks that might bring some of those 19. >> it goes again to mccarthy's failed strategy all along. it's kind of a cockamamie idea that the democrats will help under some sort of consensus candidate. that has been a bad strategy going on fox news and having establishment folks really hammer some of the hard-liners and nothing has worked so far. he is just ba...

Somebody in name a lot of people thought couldn't get the votes to be speaker, even though he was nominated yesterday, the precedent of the house you cannot withdraw your name. if he is ever able to get the votes or anybody else, i mean, it's anybody's game at this standpoint. we might have somebody come out of the woodwork who might be that consensus candidate. that's where you have to have those back room deals. so far those back room deals have not yet happened and that horse trading don't forget that in 2015 when kevin mccarthy withdrew his name for the speakership, i chased steve scalise ...

Very interested to see if they have a note at noon because they have to, weather they lost anybody. freedom caucus members are trying to put out the vibe that they're picking up members and that would obviously be a really bad sign. if the bottom -- i don't think the bottom is going to fall out. if you start seeing significant movement, that's when kevin mccarthy is in real trouble and he may not be able to get off the floor. they have to keep having these votes. >> let's talk about the potential for a consensus candidate. with the stipulation, let's all be real clear and real frank here that ...