footsie with his far right colleagues. now because mccarthy is quarreling with that same group today does not mean he is resembling a moderate. it does not change the fact that right now in humiliating public fashion, kevin mccarthy is clawing and scraping his way he hopes to the speakership, trying desperately to halt what looks like at this hour, at lee, a runaway train. it s where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. nbc news senior correspondent, garrett hague, covering the action. and former stpho claire mccaskill is here, and claire and david are both msnbc contributors. ferret, what is happening now? right now we are seeing the third vote get ready to take place here, and this one will have kevin mccarthy introduced by steve scalise and placed in nomination by steve scalise, and for the second time in a row, you have people that could be foes to mccarthy, placing his name in nomination. the last round we saw with jim jordan, and far mor
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republicans among themselves can t get to 218 votes, so democrats decide are there 50 or 75 of our members that would give their vote to some type of unity candidate speaker? that could be a great moment for the country and we are not there yet, but those are three likely scenarios. this is a live image of the floor. this is a member named chip roy, and he s nominating jim jordan. how plausible is that? not at all. the next speaker of the house of representatives, it will not be a freedom speaker. the margins are too thin. that candidate would face the same challenges that kevin mccarthy does, and you can only lose four votes, and there are never jim jordans and other ones. jim jordan, what happened in the last hour, when the 19 never
who begin with candor about the fact that the massacre in las vegas would not have been prevented by any of the standard proposals about gun control. just that simple is admission as candidate speaker s conversation about he didn t know what bump stocks were. the sooner we understand that and the last time we spend tackling straw man around the las vegas massacre the better off everyone will be. thank you for watching this week. you can catch me monday through friday on the radio 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. eastern on the salem radio network. keep the conversation going on on msnbc.com/hughhewitt. yes. this is the j.d. power award for dependability. now i want you to give it to the friend that you think is most dependable. ohhhh. ughh. wow.