behind the counter or add pickup lockers. there s a special place in hell for people who steal my chipotle. thank you joining us. i m christine romans, cnn this morning starts right now. are there circumstances you would consider pulling out of the race for speaker? no. not one? no. three strikes for kevin mccarthy but he says it s not over yet, it s not over yet. you re looking at kaitlan in washington. i told you she wasn t going to be here. i called it at the end of the show yesterday. she s going to need some friends and drinks and debriefing when she gets back. and some extra clothes. some extra clothes we ll send you before you get back. i m don lemon, poppy harlow, kaitlan collins is in washington as you see. what happens today when congress reconvenes and how long will the power struggle last? that s the question. there s still chaos on the hill. we ll speak with members of the mccarthy s party who voted for him and against him and for him an
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fights behind closed doors. you walk out and wow. willie what? you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this never. to happen. never. you just don t go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what it s going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor it s going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m had a month to lock it up and didn t do it. he didn t flow how to closed deal so humiliated yesterday. i got to say, that marjorie taylor greene fed up saying she s had enough. you had kevin mccarthy attacking members of his own caucus yesterday. you have the wall street journal editorial page, gop chaos caucus. house republicans said they want to drain the swamp and save america, but they can t even get through day one without a display of dysfunction. it s just it s just chaos. new york post a
world. this is a special edition of the situation room and the vote for speaker. good evening to you, wolf. good evening to all. i m erin burnett. we re following kevin mccarthy s failure to lock down the votes he needed to win that speaker s gavel, wolf. that fight plunging the republican party right now into a truly historic struggle on the floor. as of tonight, despite losing three votes, mccarthy remains defiant, refusing to give up, despite a band of some 20 right wing lawmakers who remain united, united in opposing the minority leader. the house adjourning until tomorrow. that s the crucial thing, adjourning untul tomorrow. what will happen? does he get the votes? let s begin with manu raju live on capitol hill. what is the latest you re hearing in this unprecedented moment from republicans where you are? reporter: we are where we are from the beginning of the day, a serious impasse. no end in sight. something that could drag or for some time, tomorrow, maybe
coast, we ve talked about how there is a new realization, it seems, over the past 24 hours, that far from being the perfect launch for donald trump s 2024 campaign, that this warrant, this search actually may turn out to be far worse than any of trump s allies suspected in the early part of the week. you brought up an example, i would lover for you to bring it up again for our friends on the west coast just getting up. but if you look at new york times and the washington post, and in both of those places, you have people close to donald trump telling republicans, you might want to step back a little bit, this is about to get really bad. well, i think a couple of things happened yesterday, joe. number one, the fever pitch of the anti-law enforcement rhetoric that we saw both from i will say importantly both from elected republicans, and from the right-wing fever swamp in the media over the course of these few days since the search of mar-a-lago, reached a pitch that was,