i don t think you ll see any republicans vote for hakeem jeffries. martha: you said democrats could have a role in that. all right. thank you very much. good to have you with us. thank you, representative gonzales from texas and from uvalde. they ve had a rough year in that part of texas. thank you. with that, we bring in brian kilmeade, the host of the brian kilmeade show on fox radio. i like to hang out with him. and james freeman, a good friend as well. editor of the wall street journal editorial page. good to have you with us today. brian, what do you think? right before we got off the air at noon on the radio show, we were going back and forth with different people we knew. clearly didn t look like mccarthy had the votes. you wonder overnight the effort where they brought in the pizzas to go out, fan out, talk to the holdouts was ineffective.
0 relentless in the face of this gridlock happening in washington. the dow is up today. the reason for that, the longer this goes on, there s likely to be gridlock in congress the next two weeks and wall street likes gridlock because nothing changes. sandra: see you tomorrow, john. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: we ll see you tomorrow. i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: all right. breaking news. continuing coverage this afternoon of a cliff-hanger in the house of representatives. republicans battle over who will be the speaker in the majority that they will hold for the next two years. house republican leader kevin mccarthy failing falling short on the fifth ballot to become speaker. blocked by another challenger from his own party. byron donalds of florida. he joined john sandra last hour after he also blocked mccarthy in the fourth vote. watch this. what we want to see is that leadership actually reflects where the american