chris, extraordinary things that we are watching a realtime, the disrobing of the house minority leader, the man who would be speaker, essentially crawling politically naked into what he thought was gonna be s finest hour. watruly an apt metaphor, and uncharted territory. and one of those things, election is run like this, you don t know what the outcome is you simply don t know what will happen next. it s not often that you get that that midnight aca but where john mccain vote where you give the down some. but they are few and far between for instance, joy, and thank you for passing this off, i appreciate it. for those, joining if you re looking at what that is, that s a motion to adjourn. kevin mccarthy the would-be speaker has lost 11 consecutive votes he set a new contemporary record, we re now back into the 1830s, which is the last of 11 votes happen, 1850s or is like 133. he s lost 11 votes, now there s a motion to adjourn, to take some time off from the, losing to do s
good evening,. alex through the conversation, then you are having with david floofy. i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we re going to have a speaker and odds are the person will probably be a republican. that s where we are. i want to cover our bases, the fact that that s even a possibility, that it might not be somebody from kevin mccarthy s party tells you where we re at. thank you, my friend. thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of time
every leader they look at the world politically through the lens of their most vulnerable members. who have one swing at district, the amazing thing is yes, they had a bad election but they did win the house, and those members who won tough districts are the furthest anybody s it s an amazing thing you just don t see that, congressional why did mitch mcconnell make a deal on the debt season the last congress. he didn t want that hanging over the republicans. he didn t think would help in his district. why was he focused on who they were nominated. good leader has to look at the world through the prison of swing district members and candidates. that s just not how these folks are gonna roll. michael all, or who want to see it is one of the most frontline members. he s saying let s stop this. but falling on deaf ears, david playoff, thank you so much. that s all in on this thursday night. alex wagner starts right now.