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needed to be the speaker for a fourth consecutive time. florida republican byron donalds appear to have received just enough support to prevent kevin mccarthy from getting to 218. so what happens now? the house remaining paralyzed this hour. no committees, no legislation, elected members can't even be sworn in. they don't even know if they are getting paid at this point after they have tried and failed again four times to elect a speaker. it's a level of dysfunction unseen in modern political history. so let's bring in an incredible panel. senior capitol hill correspondent garrett ha...

That vote. i'm very intrigued by -- or confused by victoria spartz voting present. patrick mchenry was seen talking to her. i wonder if he was able to stop her from actually voting for someone else and present was where they landed. that's a bit of speculation. she's not of the profile of the rest of these 20. she's someone who kevin mccarthy has put on a pedestal a as prime example of his type of republicans. she's been somewhat of a mainstream member of the house republican conference. so very curious what's going on there and what it says about the direction that things are headed. certainl...