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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...

We're on track for jeffries, the democrat, to land with 212. for mccarthy, the republican, to land at 202. and this time for 20 to back byron donalds. that would match essentially exactly the final vote yesterday. this is what jeffries got in the third ballot. this is what jim jordan got in the ballot. with a couple dozen votes left, there's still time to see if there are any peel offs from mccarthy. so far there's been none. you can see keith sef, we're waiting to see the final. we expect that to be donalds. all the others have been. we are just finishing the fourth ballot stuck in the exact ...

Really bad. >> to merge the two issues, the senate and the house, the house people could use the excuse for lack of a better term we know it is not going to happen anyway so i can't in good conscience vote for this, a pivot move by them. in simple english the reality is it will get through the house and in the senate if you get two or even more peel offs it will look bad but in the end i hate to get political but this is helping. carley: do you think there will be a long drawn out trial in the senate or a quick vote? >> the president once that long trial but mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham ...

Got there, democrats should be careful, just because people are frustrated for trump -- >> some people think that his sagging poll numbers means there's going to be a blue wave. not if you ask these swing state voters. >> i will note that there was at least one who was definitively anti-trump at that point and who had turned. >> correct. >> and that might be enough. just that one or two peel offs might be enough. >> she says she isn't going to vote in the midterms. not because of apathy, but because she hasn't had time to research all of the sort of local candidates and on that level. so she's...

Bipartisan majority to get this through the house this time. this continuing resolution. sounds like we'll see some sort of similar peel offs, at least in the republican caucus in the senate. is john boehner in a stronger position today at the negotiating table or a weaker one? >> i think we're not going to really know a real answer to that until the negotiations continue. this two-week cr they passed, most people will tell you that two-week cr never really had a chance because one of the key negotiators in that discussion was joe biden. he spent about a week of that period out of town. the se...