alphabetical order, they didn t even get past the cs, sealing a round one loss in a matter of minutes. mccarthy failing to whittle down the small but significant group of republican outliars all dead set on voting against him. the damage a failed first vote like this will inflict on the speakership position from the get go even if he does win, if it s a mess for republicans, a mess for mccarthy and it is shaping up to be a long day ahead for the brand-new 118th congress. he reminded reporters he holds the record for the longest speech ever delivered on the house floor, saying he doesn t care if he gets a similar vote for most speaker vote rounds. we will see if that holds and he sticks to his guns there. joining me from capitol hill, we have garrett haake. also with me, punch bowl news cofounder and nbc news contributor, anna palmer, as well as susan page. buckle up, everybody. we ve got an hour ahead of us here. beginning with you, garrett, walk us through what is happening
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elect a speaker since the 1850s continues to play out. he has not yet reached a deal with the senate, mccarthy remains optimistic. lawmaker reportedly even making more concessions to hard line conservatives, some say they still will not support him. sandra: we will likely know a whole lot more as the minutes go on here. we are watching it with you. some mccarthy allies are acknowledge never enough compromise for some hold-outs. warren davidson is backing mccarthy s bid but more than four never kevin lawmakers who will never vote for him. we will have more with the congressman-elect, davidson. he is in front of the camera right now, we ll get to him in just a moment. john: fox news live team coverage, martha will join us with more perspective on the speakership fight, and chad pergram kicking things off this afternoon, live from capitol hill and here we go for a 12th
and i don t think he will. abby, there s an nbc report saying the former president, former president trump, would not say if he s standing by his endorsement of mccarthy. i don t know that anybody should be surprised by that. but most of all kevin mccarthy. yeah, i don t think anybody s really surprised by it. this has been one of those interesting things. when i talk to republicans about this. trump is privately backing mccarthy. he s quietly backing mccarthy. but he s not using the full force of his bully pulpit to really twist the arms of a group that frankly loves him. i mean, these are his people. and he could be doing more and he s not. i thought that his comments to nbc were telling because he doesn t want to be on the side of a loser. and i think what it told me was that he doesn t think that mccarthy is going to pull this out and he doesn t want to be associated with someone who