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jeffries. >> my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] >> john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. >> sandra: congressman elect donalds will be joining us in a moment, byron donalds is watching for the final vote cast on the float and t...

>> our job is not to coronate the biggest fund raiser or rubber stamp the status quo or keep on going along to get along. it's to use our votes. to elect a speaker who will enable us to get our country back on track. >> neil: when we eventually decide on that person. i'm neil cavuto. this is "your world." the showdown to decide who will become the need leader goes into a sixth vote that for the republican leader right now, kevin mccarthy, it's the same old story. a political grounds hog day that yields the same results with every vote. etch though we don't have the sixth round of vot...

sources are telling us that house republicans are on a conference call right now. they're trying to figure out what is the path forward to get a speaker in place. just within the last couple of minutes, we saw kevin mccarthy telling our team on the hill he thinks he will get to the magic number, 218, same game plan, he says. look at that right there. we have new reporting this morning into how he's trying to make this happen. he's been deploying five trusted allies to negotiate with these kind of republican so-called rebels here, trying to figure out what are the concessions that wou...

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...

needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members can't even be sworn in. they don't even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. it's a level of dysfunction unseen in modern political history. so let's bring in an incredible panel. senior capitol hill correspondent garrett ha...