joining me now with the latest on negotiations, nbc news senior national political reporter, sahil kapur. you ve been there all day. republican leadership setting out a notice that seems to make it clear they think they have the votes sewed up and will roll right into initiating the new house. chris, we are two hours away from the house reconvening and possibly electing a speaker. i say possibly because not a done deal. yet but, yes you re right, kevin mccarthy and his leadership feel confident they will have the votes to finally make him speaker tonight after more than a dozen attempts, more than a dozen filled attempts. they ve been feverish lee negotiating with these right-wing holdouts. and made a lot of progress over the last 24 hours. they flip 14 out of the 20 rebels. the map is quite simple. the six remaining rebels. they need to win two out of them, flip them to guess. or get a bunch of others to vote president. which will lower the threshold but also give kevin mccarthy a
we re now about an hour away from the house reconvening and hopes to vote immediately or eventually will make him the next speaker of the house. spending the night trying to twist these arms belonging to the six hard right republicans that you see on the screen. it was so close, that absent members some of them came out of surgery or other medical provide tour procedures making they are way to the chamber. all of this has extra resonance. manu, so, we talked to you in the last hour, it seems to change over the hour, what s the latest. reporter: there s still growing confidence that they
reporter: as the players now shift their focus from that traumatic moment to future games we re going to use all the positives to help us win. reporter: erin, it was great to hear from those doctors, from the hospital just yesterday. you can hear it s still busy behind us. but if you think about this and looking at the buffalo bill s twitter page they ve been giving out a lot of information. going to share this picture of the assistant athletic trainer, and he s the man credited with going out there and helping do that cpr immediately when the situation took a turn. it s great to be able to share this picture because obviously there are so many people giving him credit to where we are right now. saving a life. thank you so much. and we re two hours away from the house reconvening to continue voting for speaker. it is going to be a crucial vote and i ll be back here at 10:00 with jake tapper for our special coverage.
not in literal terms. but, you, know theoretical turns. we re about an hour from the house reconvening where we think how speaker mccarthy on the 14th ballot will be elected speaker of the house. it s been four days of the house failing to function or even swear in his members. four days of kevin mccarthy making deals with some of the most extreme anti democratic pro if it doesn t portend well for the next two years. and then it is not done. it s going to go late into the early morning. and we don t know if they have all the votes for everything. nothing is assured even though they re projecting confidence. joining me now, elaina plott calabro. and elie mystal who is still onset with. me elaina, let me start with you about the meaning of all this. and what this week means. at some level, it feels like you have the speakership going
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