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Call. are there parallels this morning between the turmoil in the house and the rise of outsiders like donald trump and ben carson in the presidential race? let's begin our coverage with cnn political reporter manu raju on capitol hill what's happening now? >> capitol hill is still reeling after that stunner yesterday when kevin mccarthy dropped out of the race to succeed john boehner, throwing the gop into a state of disarray and panic. now attention shifts to a crucial meeting later this morning where house republicans will privately press one influential wisconsin republican into taking t...

>> gene robinson, i think norm is putting his finger on a political point here. in the old day, if you were a young broadly popular congressman and your party said hey, we want you to be our consensus candidate for speaker, that's a big promotion. and yet people like paul ryan don't see that as a political path. according to his public statements today. >> right. and why would paul ryan want that job? that's the worst job in washington. that's one of the worst jobs in the united states right now. because, you know, as john boehner is fond of saying, the leader without followers is just a man t...

The situation. that's why not many people are running for the speaker's gavel. >> we have appreciated your guidance. incredible. chad pergram, no one better doing this. daniel webster, could he be a consensus candidate? the florida republican who wants to be speaker of the house. last time he got 12 votes doing so. he's got a group now of some 40 members supporting him. the man is going to nominate him. who thinks he can pull it off after this. let me talk to you about retirement. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable, professional. wou...

Representation of what we're really doing. >> nbc's luke russert has also been talking with congressman chaffetz. you know there is that ability for chaffetz to throw a wrench in the works and mess up speaker boehner's exit strategy. we heard why he says he's doing it but what is the reason? >> reporter: well, his idea is that he possibly could be the consensus candidate if kevin mccarthy is not able to get 218 votes on the house floor when he's put up for speaker at the end of the month on october 29th. all he understoneeds is a majore majority leader. last time around when boehner was put up...

You know, look, mccarthy seems like he's on the track. the thing that he's got going for him is the fact that conservatives don't have a consensus candidate that they could really put out there that could pull enough votes to do it. you've got to remember, scalise, they don't trust scalise either. to a lot of folks steve scalise seems very conservative but to the most conservative members of the house they kind of think he's a little bit of a squish. this is the dynamic that kevin mccarthy is sort of wading into here. and that helps him in a lot of ways to at least get this position for the ne...