thank you so much for letting us into your homes all weeklong during these extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber. it s friday, have you heard? i hope you have a great week, nicolle. you, too. welcome to the beat. this republican chaos is continuing on this friday night in the house, which just rejected kevin mccarthy for speaker again, the 13th time. that s two more defeats for mccarthy today. kevin mccarthy is pretty much stuck at this point. he can t even stop these votes from taking place and losing over and over again. house republicans now are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they re not careful. what s it going to take to get over the top? we ll get it done tonight. it looks like he will lose on the 13th ballot. i have a couple members flying back. that s what it s been looking like as the weekend now looms on this friday evening on the east coast. it s clear this is one of the worst weeks for any party leade
snchts is there a deal for speaker in the works? i m erin burnett and we re out front . we re at a key moment in this totally grueling fight for speaker of the house. we re told negotiations are under way at this moment as an 11th vote is now under way. it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost, lost 11 votes. five just today. despite now the longest speaker contest in generations. as we re watching this, we re told that mccarthy support aernz his critics are at least talking. they ve been behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal in an attempt to show some progress. but what might that deal look like? mccarthy already essentially given them everything that they want. he is promising votes on term limits, allowing just one member to force a vote to oust him, just one. and there are four in the never kevin camp. if there is just one more republican that mccarthy can t get the gavel without help from democrats. there is so much to get to tonight. let s go to capitol
i m jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we ll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug in. ballots 10 and 11, no show of momentum towards mccarthy. something his allies said he needed to demonstrate then and still needs to demonstrate soon. this farce in the house is also clashing with a deadly and sobering anniversary. lawmakers crowded the capitol steps earlier today to mark two years since the mob emboldened and incited by donald trump s many lies about the election tried to preve
were, you know, put in exile. that s what they ll have to get to. you ll have the folks. mary miller just miller. let s wait and see, chip roy and if you have scott perry voting yes, you ll have the serious people will now come over to kevin and then you ll have the kind of the clown show for lack of a better phrase, right? the people who are just they re just here for theater, right? if those are the folks still outstanding mccarthy will win. that s i think the key point. that was mary miller. mary miller who had previously been part of the bloc of 20 just flipped her vote. you see this building momentum in terms of flitting the bloc of the 20 who are obstinate against mccarthy. the thing to look at if you don t read the tea leaves of politics every day, the difference if that 20 between the intransigent ones there not in good faith to simply make a stand and show and frankly burn the house down, and the ones who have principled policy differences where they re
of covid-19. yet, as i mentioned earlier, there has not been a single hearing in the oversight committee to deal with potential waste, fraud, or abuse of the covid funds. not a single hearing. and we all know, despite what dr. fauci said, american tax dollars were sent through ecohealth alliance to the wuhan lab in china for gain of function research. but yet dr. fauci hasn t come before congress in the house of representatives. the american people deserve answers on covid-19 and speaker kevin mccarthy has given the republican majority the tools necessary to make that possible. the democrats have spent the past six years investigating a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia. now let me say this loud and clear. the republicans will also investigate a president for potential wrongdoing in ukraine and russia as well as china. the american people have a lot of questions for dr. fauci, christopher wray, merrick garland, secretary mayorkas. we can t have those qu