the world. it s not one of those positiono you give tgiveo elderly men who have campaigned from the b their basement. if you wantent. to be the guy in ls second in line from the presidency in america, you ve got to work for it. to work and kevin mccarthy ca has worked for it this week.t whatever you think othinf, theyt the feeling mccarthy would crawl naked through a sewer to get this gig. et thi s and that s not necessarily an insult, by the way. it s what it takes, obviously. maybe it s what it should take. so if you take a deep breath and you think about it foringtor a second, nothing we have seen in washington recently the supposedly apocalyptic world ending drama of politicians arguing with each. s none of it qualifies as especially unusual or even bad. this is what democracy lookst up like when you get up close. i want one thing.ote to s you want another thing. we schedule a vote to seecase who gets it, or in this case, eleven votes, but whatever . bu how is
let s hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if anything, it would justle ofo probably be a couple of votes short, but certainly progress. itht a is realt th tonight at ts hour, no doubt the american people are being patient, butop that patience is wearingle thin the vote totals remain as of now unchanged. three straightotals re days. we have two hundred republicans supporting mccarthy 20 supportin g somebody else. and the past twenty four hours,
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