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his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they're drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it's not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have...

making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we've seen in this chamber is tough. it's tough to watch. it's tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that's why it's important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] >>...

than the country. . >> i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it's 4:00 in new york and yes, it's groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that's despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off...

Some of the people who had been voting for donalds are now switching to hern. >> but i just want to say we have heard that there is a deal under way and maybe tomorrow. we heard there was a deal this morning. i mean, just color me skeptical about this. we're now on our tenth ballot. the votes are not changing. not one person has moved to kevin mccarthy. and let's assume for a moment there is something going on behind the scenes and they put these rules into writing. is the math there? we are still talking about kevin mccarthy needs to hold everyone but four votes is the math there. >> it doesn...

This just to be in this, just to continue the fight, and just to continue denying kevin mccarthy the speakership and that's where we are at this point. these negotiators are trying to hash out, okay, they're probably not going to flip five or six of these folks, but the ones that they can, that is who the negotiations are geared for now. >> ali, stand by. jake sherman, let me go to you. live in this moment with us now, right, as we are looking at some of the conversations happening live on the house floor. based on your reporting and the many, many sources that you have in this building, jake,...