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sources are telling us that house republicans are on a conference call right now. they re trying to figure out what is the path forward to get a speaker in place. just within the last couple of minutes, we saw kevin mccarthy telling our team on the hill he thinks he will get to the magic number, 218, same game plan, he says. look at that right there. we have new reporting this morning into how he s trying to make this happen. he s been deploying five trusted allies to negotiate with these kind of republican so-called rebels here, trying to figure out what are the concessions that would be needed to peel off the votes for him to get there, even after they ve been negotiating for a matter of weeks now. listen to what one republican defector had to say this morning? it remains to be seen. i want a resolution. i want us to elect a speaker. another wrinkle this morning, you have former president donald trump giving kevin mccarthy his strongest endorsement yet, writing on ....
Congressman brian fitzpatrick who is a republican mccarthy ally, has been trying to negotiate with members of the freedom caucus this morning. here was the biggest takeaway from that interview. nobody knows what s up and everything is up in the air. is that your sense? reporter:. the shrug emoji is the most used emoji on capitol hill right now. that s because all of this is truly unfolding in realtime and because it s a story that moves forward with the power of actually having members be on the floor and vote. and so all of this jockeying behind the scenes is important, because it gives us a sense of how people are trying to shake things loose. until they get on the floor and see what the plan is, that s where we ll get the first answer to what comes next, how long will this take, are any of these back door dealings working? that s what s happening right now. fitzpatrick is one of them who is trying to negotiate with these current 20 no votes and he made the point with you, and i th ....