the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol hill
to do everything it takes in this final moments to try and get him the speakership. what are those concessions? we had a whole list before, you re adding to it tonight? yeah, there s three main things that we re hearing tonight that were offered in this concession. the first big one, that kevin mccarthy has agreed to empower any single member to call for a vote on ousting the sitting speaker. that s something called the motion to vacate the speaker s chair, it s something that kevin mccarthy initially said, he was not gonna budge on. it s something that back in the day, years ago, any member used to be able to call for that vote, speaker nancy pelosi changed the rules, and the house conference rules that were decided on in november. amongst just republicans decided to just do a simple majority of their conference, then mccarthy came down to five members in the negotiations, now he s back down to one. which is what conservatives wanted from the beginning. he s very completely caved