muster the vote to make their leader, kevin mccarthy the speaker. instead, and a test of his capacity for humiliation, he sat there smiling at times as well surpassed three times. the results were red. the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california has received 203. no persons having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. after the third rejection, republican moved to adjourn until noon tomorrow. this could all begin again. in 1923, it took nine ballots to choose a speaker. the record is 133 over two months in 1856. known expects it to go that long this time. but it was still historic and unprecedented in the modern era. it is also a repudiation of mccarthy
pennsylvania judge and waived extradition and now we have body cam video of a traffic stop weeks before his arrest where police let him go. a makeshift container wall at the southern border in arizona is being taken down after legal challenges from the biden administration, you know, the people who created the border crisis. plus, democratic governor s busing migrants out of his state. bill melugin is here life with a full report but we begin with chaos on capitol hill after three rounds of votes, kevin mccarthy has so far failed to be elected speaker of the house. rich edson is live with us in the nation s capital with more. good evening. good evening. still no speaker. tthe house has adjourned on republicans are trying to figure this all out. kevin mccarthy says there is no circumstance where he drops out of the speakers race. he says he s looking for 11 votes to give him one more than democratic leader hakeem jeffries. on all three ballots, jeffries received unanimous su
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
byron tell us a moment ago, congressman donalds say he believes therehe ballot, byron donalds and voted for himself. we ll see what happens and will cover it. john: nothing will happen today, i don t think, so whatever negotiations occur after the house adjourns for the day. meantime, new at 2:00 and breaking right now, the man accused in the murders of four idaho students on the way to idaho where he faces four counts of first-degree murder. sandra: the 28-year-old man tells his defense lawyer he is eager to be exonerated. john: dan springer is outside the idaho facility. when can we expect kohberger to arrive, dan? it s a good question, john, and we are tracking a plane we think he is on that stopped in champagne, illinois to refuel, and then it will be coming up here and it could be 3, 4 hours. we don t know exactly when he ll get here, but we do know he ll be coming to the county jail. i talked to the county prosecutor. he says if he gets here before court ends, a
tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a