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brian: right. republican leader kevin mccarthy, he s got a nice big office but no title vowing to continue his pursuit of the gavel despite fierce pushback as democrats kick back and watch. ainsley: david spunt in live in washington with all the details. this is just theatrics, right, david? 200 people in favor of mccarthy and a few of heats holdouts. steve: that s all it takes. brian: no one changes their mind. really something being called rebels on the house floor after a few hours off from that drama on the house floor, kevin mccarthy and his supporters, guys, will be back at it today hoping to gain more votes like 15 or 20 to be specific, with 20 republicans holding out, mccarthy just cannot be speaker. actually, the house can t even go on with its business. the margins over democrats just too razor thin to begin with. mccarthy has no plans to crop out. will stay on for a fourth ballot, a fifth ballot, even sixth if necessary according to those close to him. on the first ....
washington post political reporter eugene scott, and former house speaker paul ryan and brenden buck, the political analyst susan dell curso. brenden, let me go to you, because there s that old saying, i think it is attributed to einstein, that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. but as steve just pointed out, they re waiting to see, we have to wait to see whether there are any further defections. but what do you make of this quick turn to have a fifth ballot? well, it tells me that kevin mccarthy can t get off the floor. so the options here are pretty limited. you keep voting or you vote to adjourn. but you need 218 votes to stop, i think at this point, kevin mccarthy would like to have people stop voting against him and would like to buy some time to maybe have some conversations, maybe have a conversation meeting, i don t know, but i think he realizes this is not a good look. but he needs cooperation to do that. and the fact tha ....
Mccarthy, you better come close to our site. harris: i m sorry, bret you have to go in a minute and a half so final word on this, something to pick up from jackie on or just your own comic own thoughts on this? jason: makes a good point but the statement is how far will they go? that s where we are. giant game of legislative chicken on the house chamber floor. who is going to give first? what will the negotiation be? the little bug in the corner suggests byron donalds will be on the 1:00 p.m. eastern time show. that will be interesting to see with john and sandra because how he portrays what his intentions are now one for himself moments ago will be fascinating. you ll probably stick at 20, we haven t seen anyone added to the list we are heading to a fifth ballot, 1856 was 153 ballots so we are a long way to go. ....
He has handled the negotiations. others have personality conflicts with kevin mccarthy. all raises concerns for mc mccarthy, analyzing whether he can get the 218 votes to be elected speaker. there is a plan in the morning on wednesday to have a meeting of the full republican conference to try to hash out the differences. the problem, they had a meeting on tuesday morning that did not go well for mccarthy. in a meeting he went after the members, lashed out after the critics. one of his allies suggested that some of them could lose committee assignments over the whole issue. that almost led to republican opposition hardening in some ways, growing. that was what the conservatives who have sought to derail mccarthy s bid said. they came out of the meeting and were emboldened and planned to oppose him. at the moment mccarthy says he plans to grind it out, go to a fourth ballot, go to a fifth ....
The vote for speaker of the House dragged out into a sixth round of voting after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) again failed to reach the necessary votes to claim the gavel. ....