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and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives' longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. >> 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthy's rolling humiliation for this evening. >> manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they adjourn for the evening, what happens then? >> then the negotiations will continue. actually, the m...

Complicated, it's dysfunctional. that autocracy, that this is all proving autocracy is a better way to go. i know you disagree with that. i disagree with it. but as somebody who has grown up in eastern europe, do you think that that is true, that this messiness is making it easier for dictators to make the argument that democracy is not worth the effort? >> well, i can tell you one thing. democracy is never easy. this process is hard. they meant to be hard. but i would never accept changes for anything else. if you live under dictatorship, if you live under tyranny, you mow what it means to ha...

Congresswoman, i appreciate you joining us. are you happy? do you think progress can be made overnight into tomorrow? >> i think the fact that we got 219 votes to adjourn. i know that seems like a farcical thing, but that's a small victory. and yes, i think that we're going to continue this process. but people are seeing the process that typically occurs behind closed doors, and what people used to laughingly refer to and derisively referred to as smoke-filled back rooms, this is happening out in the public's eye. this is part of that process. it's part of the process of the house and they're ...

Deliberate and address issues and concerns before any changes are made. so i don't worry about that. and addressing legitimate concerns like that, we're going to have to hear how it's going to be addressed. but i don't worry about that right now. i just want to make sure that we're talking to each other and we are having the discussions. because it's important as part of resolutions. it's important for us to talk to each other. a lot of people have different opinions. but only the people in the room really know what's happening. and until they come to a consensus and everyone else see what's h...

On what's transpiring through that. so it has been a transparent process as we go forward. >> are you concerned at all about what has been negotiated thus far? even as somebody who supports kevin mccarthy to become speaker, are you worried about the power of others to challenge him down the road? >> i'm not concerned about the power to challenge others. we did take a vote on that in the entire conference membership that we thought that the motion to vacate should not be at one. should it be at a larger number. and actually, that we should have consistency across because you have different rule...