and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthy s rolling humiliation for this evening. manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they adjourn for the evening, what happens then? then the negotiations will continue. actually, the motion to adjourn is a good sign for kevin mccarthy, who has had one bad result after another. 11 straight times being rejected, not being able to get a majority of the house to elect a speaker, paralyzing this institution, the start of the 118th congress. that is the first order of business. if they can t elect a speaker, then they can adjourn. that s really the only two options. but the majority of
kevin mccarthy allies, and maybe some people who are not strong allies, but people who have been voting for them. and i call it concession regret, which is something the congresswoman just told you, jake, she doesn t know what s being promised away in that room. and there is real concern. we have seen historic dysfunction, at least in the modern era. and there is real concern that the promises that kevin is making to try to get in enough votes to get it down to 4 are going to lead to a disaster down the road. a frank question. because you re a former health correspondent, as am i, as are you. what do you think the odds are that i know more about the discharge petition situation about what this next congress is going to look like than more than a element of these republican and house members? i don t think a lot of these