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the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol ....
From certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol hill tonight. melanie, where did these negotiations stand tonight? is mccarthy right to be optimistic? i would say he s inching a little bit closer to the speakership, negotiations are very much still ongoing. however, we did see some signs that the talks from earlier tonight are progressing, that is that kevin mccarthy has made an offer to some of the critics. this is something that came after he was huddled in his office with some of the holdouts, some of his allies were there. it s unclear whether that s going to be enough to get him the votes, sources were telling me that perhaps it could move maybe ten votes or so, which would not be enough to get him 2 to 18. it is a sign that kevin mccarthy is ready to give concessions that he ....