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welcome to "the lead" i'm jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i've never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let's go to manu raju on capitol hil...

Them more power, give them more committee assignments. give them more say in forcing a vote to oust a sitting speaker. among the issues, there are i'm told progress in some issues according to some of the members. does that mean they can get there? he has a long way to go. he can only lose four votes to get there, four republican votes and lost 20 so far that are several republicans who i talked to coming off the floor who are still no votes including congress man bob good, what a path mccarthy has to get to 218 votes. they are optimistic they can somehow get there but been trying for weeks an...