seeking to gain benefit for the american people but you are managing risks. all of the risks are appropriate to take into consideration. i would want to manage that risk. is there any chance, i think it s a low chance, and i think we are going to get to a result that is an improvement for the country. is there somebody else who you would like to see as speaker? mccarthy doesn t have the speaker, who, besides byron donalds? steve scalise, is that somebody you can get behind? you keep asking me how i would end up and i keep telling you that would damage the process to tell you. i hear what you are saying, i have to ask, it s literally part of my job. understood. i ve been asking members about this over the last 24 hours not spoken with members
this just to be in this, just to continue the fight, and just to continue denying kevin mccarthy the speakership and that s where we are at this point. these negotiators are trying to hash out, okay, they re probably not going to flip five or six of these folks, but the ones that they can, that is who the negotiations are geared for now. ali, stand by. jake sherman, let me go to you. live in this moment with us now, right, as we are looking at some of the conversations happening live on the house floor. based on your reporting and the many, many sources that you have in this building, jake, where is this going next? are we headed to ballot number nine? or is there a time-out so they can basically try and figure out something out so we re not doing jay va view all over again here? they would like to get a time-out. unfortunately, they don t think they have the votes right now to get a time-out, to adjourn. remember, there are no rules right now in the house of representatives. so th
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