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Violation of all international norms, laws, and israel's pledges to the american president. in the uk forfive days after the american president. in the uk for five days after industrial action by world workers. the last few minutes we have learned that kevin mccarthy has failed in his bid to become speaker of the house of representatives. these are like pictures from the capital hill could see mr mccarthy talking to colleagues, smiling a little as well but this will not have been what he wanted. as for you my colleague will grant straightaway. help us understand the process and understand why ...

Vote, and that is if mccarthy cannot get there to 218, who can? steve scalise would also fall short, and so the same group that mccarthy cut with the hard-line members would fall short of the member, and those who don't like those concessions said they would not support that with any other speaker candidate with all kinds of speaker problems here. >> and melissa, does the former president trump, does he have a role to play here? >> well, he is a major fact in that -- think of this, and some of the rations that donald trump weighed into, the ten house republicans that decided to vote for his im...

Essentially would give away much of his authority and allow critics to fire him at any moment however, he has been struggling to lock down the votes and so i am told that he has been having phone calls all week with some of his critics and made an offer to them to come down on that threshold. in fact, he has offered to go as low as a five-person threshold to trigger the motion to vacate the speaker's chair. that would be a major concession for him. the trick for kevin mccarthy is that he can't afford to lose many votes so he has to get through on any concession he makes and some critics still ...

Backed it has been nearly 100 years since a vote for house speaker went to mobile ballots on the house floor. a new nbc news reports suggest that might be exactly where we're headed as kevin mccarthy sort of secured the 2:18 votes needed to be elected speaker january. joining us now is terrible mary. she's a senior political reporter at putt news. tara, thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. what is the likelihood at this point, considering the folks even talking to on the hill right now, that mccarthy cannot get to that number, to 18? >> it seems like he's going to pull around but o...

For the majority leader job. he said that he'll have to gauge how his conference decides what to do thursday when it comes to a critical vote in the house republican conference. here's what he had to say. >> i'm not a candidate. the candidacy goes through thursday and i'll support the nominee. my whole thesis here is that, unfortunately, kevin mccarthy, as current majority leader, does not have enough support. >> reporter: after this thursday vote, there's going to be a vote on the house floor, october 29th, to determine who the next speaker will be. that person needs 218 votes on the house fl...