good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin
me snickering and chortling through the conversation you were just having. you know me, i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we are going to have a speaker and odds are that person probably will be a republican. that s where we are right now. i want to cover my bases because that s on tape. the fact that it s even a possibility that it might not be someone from kevin mccarthy s you never know. tells us where we are at. thank you. thank you to all of you at home for joining us. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned with the third day without selecting a speaker of the house. the lower chamber held five votes for speaker and congressman kevin mccarthy failed to cinch the nomination on all five of those bringing the total number of time
but he s not going to do the deal, not on this roll call. maybe not today. chris jansing, my colleague is going to take over this roll call. watch with steve kornacki. this has been an extraordinary day already. we have another flip here. we knew it was going to be historic. steve kornacki, what did we just seethe? i want to go back to steve. what are we looking at? mary miller from illinois, another one of the holdouts, she also flipping over and voting for mccarthy. that means there have been 13 folk who is have voted against mccarthy previously and now 7 of those 13 have flipped over. so he s actually of the votes cast by previous mccarthy opponents in this roll majority over. he s gotten more than half of them. 7 of the 13 have flipped over. paul gosar will vote at the end. he has seemed pretty dug in, but we ll see what happens there. the next name to come on the list is ralph norman. we re about 15 names away from him. very rapid fire after that. scott perry, chair
and the humiliation that s come with that here in front of the whole nation. tonight we begin with how we got here, because everyone s been absorbing the days of chaos, headlines about the failure of the republican majority to get its work start in the its new congress. a story that really goes beyond politics and it s reaching people who don t always follow the swearing in or the speaker s race. if you approach this with fresh eyes as many americans have, saying what s going on over there? you may wonder why the big chaotic fight continues with rolling losses for republicans. why is it happening at the finish line of a win for the gop in the midterms? and why is the big fight in washington within one party, not between one of the typically warring factions between parties? there are many factors but three reasons loom large. first a crop of republicans who are more focused on hijacking than running. second, this trump internet industrial complex that puts the content, the tr
captions by vitac www.vitac.com and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c. it has been quite a day and quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become house speaker. the house adjourned. members then reconvened briefly, only to adjourn until noon tomorrow, with the speaker more upbeat about his chances. why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? reporter: he s hearing more positive responses from those opponents, the people that have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which mccarthy has made a number of concessions, ranging on political issues, how his outside group engages on key issues, as well as giving them more power and more sway over themselves, the rank and file at the expense of the leadership, some of these members sound like they re moving in direction. congressman mike cloud, for one, says the talks are moving in a positive light, in his view, as well as scot