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anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i don t think if you watch me that i get excited do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day it s better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? you get to 218. this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after kevin mccarthy failed to win enough support in three rounds of voting. we ll walk through what happened and how today is shaping up. plus, republican congressman-elect george santos had an awkward first day in washington. he kicked things off with another statement about something that didn t actually happen. we ll tell you what it was. also this morning, the family of damar hamlin says he s still fighting after his scary collapse monday night. we ll have the latest on his condition str ....
Have told me the former president a little gun shy about weighing in too strong ler potentially backing a loser considering he was blamed for republican defeats at the midterms. joining us co-author of politico s playbook, rachel, great to see you. the house reconvenes in a few hours in the building behind you. kevin mccarthy failed not once, not twice but three times to get the needed votes yesterday. what s his plan to get there today? well, look, it looks like mccarthy is going to try to rely on this sort of outside pressure campaign to try to move his detractors, you know, if he watched fox news at all last night a lot of their all-star cast as questioning why mccarthy s critics were doing what they re doing. laura ingraham was grilling chip roy, one of the guys who voted against kevin mccarthy on the floor yesterday saying what is your end game here? sean hannity coming out and saying this, is going to hurt the party in the long run, so, you know, mccarthy sort of last bit is to ....
And really speaks to the diminished power that the former president has in this party right now after, you know, midterms and shellacking that republicans well, i guess you can t call it shellacking. they did flip the house, but still trump s diminished power doesn t want to weigh in now because he doesn t want to look like he s backing a loser. you just hinted at. mccarthy has a real problem on his hands right now in that his detractors are furious his allies starting threatening them saying they could lose committee posts. the theory trying to argue he is owed the speakership because he raised money for them, campaigned for people, et cetera. last night they spent time working the phones and trying to whip more republicans to come out against mccarthy. i think that that s the big question for today. he s got to show mccarthy has too show some sort of progress. show he s winning people over, but the more likely scenario is that the longer this, you know, stays out there, unresolve ....
President may be trying to drive home today and senator mcconnell as well is, deal making, relationships and the fact that the president and senator mcconnell know each other so well, mcconnell could be the person the president leans into when the white house wants to try to get something done with congress instead of reaching out to the house the way he might have done under former speaker nancy pelosi who he had a good relationship with. yeah, mcconnell certainly may be a key figure when it comes to keeping funding for ukraine going in the future. darlene, one last question shifting gears, friday, if can you believe it is the two-year anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. the white house has advised the president will be addressing the nation on that day to mark that day. what is the white house previewing as to what he ll say? we ve heard the president talk about a few times last year about the importance of democracy and protecting it. how it s been under threat. ....
Leader kevin mccarthy s career long quest for the gavel. they argued that mccarthy was too much of an establishment figure to bring the real change they want to see to the house. shortly after the first vote failed, the house tried to elect a speaker for the second time and then a third time with both subsequent votes ending in the same result. mccarthy was coming up short. lawmakers then approved a motion to adjourn till noon today to give them time. mccarthy and his team seemed to be hunkering down for a long night after the three failed votes with nbc news spotting that cart of pizzas being rolled into the speaker s office that he prematurely moved into. the embattled republican briefly spoke to reporters following the unprecedented rejection from members of his own party saying that he had no plans to back down once congress reconvenes today. are there any circumstances under which you would consider ....