welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i ve never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill. i am hearing as you are hearing from members of congress, you re hearing from them off the record i guess and hearing from them on camera, who are saying yeah, they think there actually might be a way forward. some are saying that too, on the record chip roy being one of them. others are suggesting there is not. there is still very little room for error for kevin mccarthy but mccarthy just le
kasie hunt, one of the things you clearly hear from the congressman bishops and bars and others, this idea that yes, we need to reform the process even further, kevin mccarthy needs to make changes further. that s from barr who is promccarthy but, you know, some of the people like it doesn t matter. it not really about the process. it s not about the rules. you know, bob good is not going to vote for kevin mccarthy no matter what. right. you re exactly right. for some of them it s personal and the question is are there five of them for whom it s personal or four of them for whom it s personal? and how clear can they make that or do they make that to kevin mccarthy and, you know, i think this is obviously going to be very telling period and what i m waiting for and jamie, i know you ve been reporting on this throughout is to see whether we start to see close mccarthy allies start to try to tell him hey, you know what, we can t actually do this again. we need to come to a resolution he