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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
Headlines on a very busy thursday morning, house republicans are advancing efforts to launch an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. house speaker kevin mccarthy raised the issue during a closed door meeting yesterday telling party members that they can only launch a probe if and when they secure enough evidence to justify one. which hasn t happened yet. that s according to several lawmakers who were in the room. tay say mccarthy is also warning republicans to not reveal what s bip uncover so far in their biden family investigations. but some members say they don t want to hear impeachment talk, calling mccarthy s latest move a political game to distract the public. this is impeachment theater. we right now are starting the appropriations process, and there is not consensus on the republican side about what the numbers should be. kevin mccarthy promised when he was running for speaker one set of numbers, and then he made an agreement with president biden for the debt ceiling
I m watching my language. i saw that. goofballs, haven t said that in years. trying to be nice nowadays. an impeachment inquiry may be launched into president biden. mccarthy told members of his party they can only launch a probe if and when they secure enough evidence to justify one which hasn t happened yet. it s according to lawmakers in the room. they say mccarthy was warning republicans not to reveal what has been uncovered so far in their investigations of the biden family. some members, though, say they didn t want to hear all the impeachment talk, calling mccarthy s latest move a political game to distract the public. this is impeachment theater. we re starting the appropriation s process, and there is not a consensus on the republican side about what the number should be. kevin mccarthy promised when he was running for speaker one set
Wants to see so can our leaders avoid it peter alexander starts us off tonight from japan. reporter: tonight with the nation staring down at a potentially catastrophic default now just a week and a half away, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy agreeing to meet one-on-one tomorrow afternoon at the white house. the president enroute back from japan, calling mccarthy from aboard airforce one. the top republican describing the call as productive he walked through some of the things he is still looking at, he is hearing from his members. i walked through things that i m looking at reporter: that tone markedly different from hours earlier whwhen the twowo leaders were tradiding accusationons. the president slamming house republicans for what he called extreme positions and for ratcheting up demands that he dismissed as unacceptable it is time for republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan deal to be made solely, solely on their partisan terms reporter: mccarthy