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headquarters in new york city and the political drama captivating washington and paralyzing the house of representatives now in a third day with no end in sight. we re well into the seventh vote. still no speaker ask it does not appear the concessions kevin mccarthy agreed to last night made any difference in the vote count today. the biggest backlash against those conservative rebels coming from other members of their party. slamming them as egotistical opportunists. one of those members, chris stewart, will join us in a minute. and donald trump s big endorsement of kevin mccarthy landing with a thud. his own maga members rejeking his advice and holding the line against the would-be speaker. so has the former president last his touch? joining me now is senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, political correspondent steve kornacki, former congresswoman donna edwards, an msnbc political analyst, john theory is a long-time republican house staffer, matthew dowd i ....
i m thinking of the house republicans and the grateful dead if you plant ice you will harvest wind, which is one of those lines that could mean anything, but sometimes what it means to me at least is, yeah, you put stuff in the ground that is not a seed, that is not meant to grow, it s not going to work with the surrounding environment. what are you going to get? and i was watching your coverage and thinking what you said that this is what they want. how do you negotiate with someone for a solution when the actual think they would quote, negotiate for is no solution? is what they re getting. i m glad you went back toest because republicans frankly fewer and fewer used to call me during the trump years. what do you want from us? we said grab them in the bleep wasn t ideal but you re still for him, you re still helping him beat his opponent who s a better choice, who isn t a threat to national security which all republicans are knew believed he was. so the bet was alw ....
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to fl ....
that third ballot, where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for ken mccarthy and his allies. we have seen supporters going into his office. we are told he has been working the phones. he still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i spoke to a gop lawmaker. this is some breaking news here. this lawmaker texted me and said this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they have just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans, who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that number to flip. essentially what you have here is kevin mccarthy and his office in the capital, trying to get to 218. and you have this opposition digging in and trying to work directly against him. look, this is one of the potential drawbacks of doing the motion to adjourn. there is a lot of concern initially about whether, if they were to send members home, about whether the opposition would have time to gro ....
sans speaker. kevin mccarthy failing again on a fifth ballot to capture the necessary number of votes, the number of opponents among house republicans has actually gone up from 19 to 20, to 21. now republicans are looking for a way out, an exit strategy. is that tossing mccarthy to the curb? is that brokering a deal with democrats to lower the vote? they have to get these 23 rebels on board. me melanie zanona is with us. what s happening here? reporter: republicans are searching for an offramp as it s become clear that kevin mccarthy s efforts to win over his opposition not working. i m told republicans have approached democrats on the house floor and tried to feel them out to see, what would it take for you to vote present or not show up? we re told these are informal conver conversations. it s still early. democrats said they would not bail out mccarthy, but they would be willing to talk about a consensus candidate. we ll see. the fact that republicans are even thin ....