we re now about an hour away from the house reconvening and hopes to vote immediately or eventually will make him the next speaker of the house. spending the night trying to twist these arms belonging to the six hard right republicans that you see on the screen. it was so close, that absent members some of them came out of surgery or other medical provide tour procedures making they are way to the chamber. all of this has extra resonance. manu, so, we talked to you in the last hour, it seems to change over the hour, what s the latest. reporter: there s still growing confidence that they will get the vote. the longest speaker s race that we ve seen since the mid-18 hundreds. but, they believe they ve gotten there. the question will ultimately be on which members ultimately flip. you showed the six on your screen, some of those, they will need all members come and vote for a specific candidate, they will need four of those six. but, there are other strategies now being disc
house republicans as was the indication 100 years ago are denying the man who thought he would be speaker in this case, kevin mccarthy, the necessary votes to win the speakers gavel. meaning that, right now, the house is completely paralyzed. we do not have a speaker, official members of congress or rules. and the math is frankly, only getting worse for kevin mccarthy. as the process drags out, the total number of republicans not voting for him is going up. the total number of republicans voting for him is going down. let s go straight to cnn s congressional correspondent manu raju. we re hearing that each side of this republican against republican standoff might appoint four members to negotiate some way forward? that s what sources tell us. that s what s under discussion right now. to come up with some sort of group, a negotiating grope to break the standoff paralyzing the house and preventing the congress from moving forward. four people close to kevin mccarthy. and othe
made on the hard right. potentially protect defense programs. on the powerful house rules committee that sets the terms of legislation and amendments and also on other key issues, namely, the debt limit. that is going to be a huge issue in the new congress. what mccarthy agreed to is to pair the raising debt limit with spending cost, that s a red line for democrats in the senate as well as in the white house. that fight will wait for another day as mccarthy had to make these promises, anderson, in order to secure the speakership which is something he believes he will have in an hour or so. melenie zanona is also at the capital. six gop holdouts, who among them have indicated they may switch votes or vote present. kevin mccarthy it s team is looking at rosendale, and
of left with no choice other than the theory, that, you know, large numbers of people have no sense of shame, could be shamed if they were forced to take lots of votes and it turned out to be a terrible miscalculation. i ll add to what you re saying. there are some people who have some conception of things they want here and there, but, melenie zanona reported earlier today that one of the demands being made by matt gaetz who, i think a lot of people believe is probably a hard no is that he he wanted a job handed to him by kevin mccarthy, which, if you re one of the 200 plus republicans, that s an untenable demand. that s a ridiculous, untenable demand because what it means is that, just because he s holding out, he would get more power, just due to that fact? so, it s problematic for