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in this moment it's unclear if there is any concession they will accept beyond kevin mccarthy taking his name out of consideration. unclear if the house adjourns as soon as it gavels in or the opposition is going to force mccarthy to stomach another vote and likely public humiliation. cnn's capitol hill team is tracking every development on very little sleep. let's check in with manu raju. manu, mccarthy allies remain worried and now they're worried that they might even begin to hemorrhage even more support on a potential fourth ballot. >> yeah, that's been the reason why there have ...

tonight on "the reidout" -- >> no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. >> an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. >> and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and imp...

world. this is a special edition of "the situation room" and the vote for speaker. >> good evening to you, wolf. good evening to all. i'm erin burnett. we're following kevin mccarthy's failure to lock down the votes he needed to win that speaker's gavel, wolf. >> that fight plunging the republican party right now into a truly historic struggle on the floor. as of tonight, despite losing three votes, mccarthy remains defiant, refusing to give up, despite a band of some 20 right wing lawmakers who remain united, united in opposing the minority leader. the house adjourning until tomorro...

That much was clear this morning, when they were talking with reporters, and it has certainly sustained itself throughout the day. the mccarthy strategy was also to keep people on the floor and just eventually wear them out, be able to make inroads by the sheer force of putting people on the floor. those conservative lawmakers, though, didn't blink. the reality is true that they are both nominating the guy, jim jordan, who is nominating kevin mccarthy, the guy does not want to be speaker, but at the same time, conservatives are still trying to find any way to keep mccarthy from being in this p...

Any more concessions and frankly, these guys just want to take down kevin mccarthy but the mccarthy strategy is to split this group and try to pick them off one at a time. now, that's a tall order because they would need to pick of 16 of them. there's 20 defectors, we'll see what the number is today but 20 defectors so they need to take that many back. isolate them and you have to use heavy-handed tactics to do that at this point. i don't think you can use carrots right now. i think now they're bringing out the sticks but we'll see -- >> which mccarthy tried to do yesterday morning yelling at ...