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week; i never if give up. [cheers and applause] maria: now republicans are preparing to get to work with plans to adopt a new rules package tomorrow morning, and speaker mccarthy finalizing committee heads this week. coming up, florida congressman byron donalds who emerged as a potential alternative before helping to empower the former minority leader to take the gavel. plus, former green beret and florida congressman michael waltz on the promise of a vote on term limits and a balanced budget within 10 years. plus, joe biden finally discovers fentanyl after two years of silence and 1...

bitter conflict among house republicans. former minority leader kevin mccarthy is being opposed by landful of lawmakers who are refusing to support him. a number that increased by one on the last balloting for speaking. chad pergram has been following this all day minute by minute. he tells us where things stand tonight from a chaotic capitol hill. good evening, chad. >> bret, as you say. the most chaos for the beginning of a congress in 100 years. it marked a foreboding start for a g.o.p. majority which promised big things in the midterms. the house voted all afternoon. kevin mccart...

>> we're going to now have an inflation score in place as well on every single bill, the 72-hour rule. but, maria, that was all in place on sunday. the only thing that really changed this week was the motion to vacate from 5 to 1, and now this commitment to a balanced budget. maria: so let me ask you the same question i asked byron donalds then, how long does kevin mccarthy have to prove that he's going to be -- >> well, my issue was going down to one was that a democrat could do that as well -- [laughter] maria: good point. >> right? and i don't want to see the squad up this trying to disrupt...

0 and got word they are -- they are now going into a ninth vote. >> john: this will tie 1923, except they got a speaker on the ninth vote in 2023. >> sandra: unbelievable. the house floor on capitol hill, drama continues. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: i'm john roberts. i have a sense something will move in the next couple of days. martha with "the >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. moments ago, house republican leader kevin mccarthy failed the eighth time to secure enough votes to become the speaker of the house. that small republican faction blocking him shows little si...

But i was confirming with him that he indeed doesn't want the job. he said mike i want to be chairman of judiciary. we have to hold big tech accountable. we have to get the antitrust. we have to reform the fbi that's become highly politicized. so we were actually lamenting about all of the things that we had expected to get started this week. and that we can't because, look, i do want to say there are some things that had to change from house speaker pelosi ran this place where you have got a $1.7 trillion bill that goes into her office and comes out into law with no ability to stop things. bu...