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Transcripts For CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240706

ac 360 meantime starts now. and good evening. it is another night of drama and uncertainty in washington tonight. in a little less than two hours the house will reconvene and test congressman s kevin mccarthy confidence he can win the remaining hold outs he need to become speaker elect and avoid this fate for a 14th straight time. a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. after that losing effort which saw him flip 15 no votes over to his side, the house adjourned to allow time to deal with the rest. what exactly got him this far is unclear. we know some of the proposed concessions or at least one he made has many democrats concerned it could lead to a government default. we re in territory unchartered since the 1850s. this is also taking place on the second anniversary of the attack on congress. president biden honoring defenders of democracy in both parties and law enforcement heroes of that day, and remembering those whose lives were lost. ....

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240604 01:04:00

Some of those votes could come from members flipping. if three of them vote present it would bring him down to 216 votes, or if he s able to flip one of those members and a couple vote present he could win with 217 votes. if he is lucky to flip two of them he would get the magic 218 votes without having to flip all of them to present. all of those discussions have been taking place behind the scenes for the last several hours. already they re preparing for a very late night. they re preparing for victory and after victory expect a mccarthy speech on the house floor. and following that they ll have to adopt a rules package that will govern how the house will have to operate. that rules package has been part of the negotiations for the last several days and includes some major concessions mccarthy had to make to potentially win tonight, one of which would give any single member of the house the ability to vote to oust a sitting speaker, something that could put his speakership in ....

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