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paralysis continues in the us congress, the republican leader in the us house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, appears to have failed in his 11th bid to get elected speaker, extending the government deadlock into a third day. a small group of right—wingers within his own party has been derailing attempts to elect him. an eleventh vote is now underway. the republicans took control of the house in november's midterm elections, but the deadlock has left the chamber unable to swear in members or pass legislation. gary o'donoghue reports. the total number of votes cast is 434. in the...

snchts is there a deal for speaker in the works? i'm erin burnett and we're "out front". >> we're at a key moment in this totally grueling fight for speaker of the house. we're told negotiations are under way at this moment as an 11th vote is now under way. >> it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost, lost 11 votes. five just today. despite now the longest speaker contest in generations. as we're watching this, we're told that mccarthy support aernz his critics are at least talking. they've been behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal in an attempt to show some progress. but...

i'm jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we'll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug i...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c. it has been quite a day and quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become house speaker. the house adjourned. members then reconvened briefly, only to adjourn until noon tomorrow, with the speaker more upbeat about his chances. why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? >> reporter: he's hearing more positive responses from those opponents, the people that have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which m...

♪ ♪ ♪ and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c.. it has been quite a day in quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his 60 vote to become house speaker. the house then adjourned around temps a deal making. consumed members reconvene briefly, only to adjourn again until noon tomorrow. the would-be speaker announcing more upbeat about his chances. cnn's manu raju first broke that news for us. he joins us again tonight from the capitol. so, why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? >> he's hearing some more positive responses from those ...