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 hill
while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a 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 that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
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good evening, chris. what a ride. i mean history, day three, we hadn t today three of history. they, as rebecca saying on friday, big british parliament energy without the intelligence and the phone. she did say that part, but i will. i do love british parliament energy. i i like the rockets this. i m into it. there s something into the rockets in this, although this is just uncontrolled chaos. nobody is driving the bus. and here we are. thank you, as always. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it is 9 pm on the east coast and there is still no house of representatives seated in the united states of america. today, republican leader kevin mccarthy lost three rounds voting for speaker, bringing his total number of failed votes to six. this evening, the house was set to hold a seventh vote for speaker of the house, but within the past hour, the house voted to adjourn and close up shop for the night and come back tomorrow. when it drag this thin