scott desjardins, because he is not negotiating and they are having an amicable conversation, and he is not negotiating, and so maybe he has to change the posture, but jim jordan is about to speak, and the expectation is to signal the supporters to support kevin mccarthy, and he is a close ally of mccarthy, and they have developed a close tie over the years, and this is a key source of the alliance between jordan and mccarthy. will jordan say, come vote and tell his six supporters to vote for mccarthy potentially, yes. will that change the math, no. this is still some paperwork is being done, and once that vote is being officially closed, and they will move on to the second vote, and the clerk of the house is about to make an announcement, and we will have the second vote to take place, and the conservatives is going to announce a potentially second nominee, and we will see if that is going to play out, but kevin mccarthy is certainly to fall short, and not expecting to step
that doesn t change the bottom line, however, the house still doesn t have a speaker. it s not clear how or when this open warfare among house republicans may end. back with our team now as we continue to watch the counting of the votes and the roll call. alyssa, what do you see at play? so i suspect that the freedom caucus, the right flank blocking kevin mccarthy right now are running a 2015 playbook. i was at the time their comms director and what they were planning to do then, allow it to go to multiple ballots to show paul ryan didn t have the majority and that jim jordan couldn t be speaker before ultimately having, you know, the beleaguered tired folks unite around a consensus candidate. back then it was going to be mike pompeo. i m curious if jordan is a straw man for the right right now and that they have someone else up their sleeves that they re going to put up to be speaker.
what just happened here. this is mccarthy s best shot if he wanted to convince people who wanted to vote for him and people on the second ballot to switch to mccarthy, this is the best case scenario for mccarthy. mccarthy and jim jordan as he said today, they do not see eye to eye. what an interesting thing for him to mention. and they used to hate each other, and they made a political alliance that is being tested right now. but, it may not be up to jim jordan at this point, and i think that if this vote goes much the same way as the last vote except for more people go to jim jordan s column, that is when we will see if there are some more come to jesus meetings with kevin mccarthy. and the opposition is making the point for all jim jordan so
others have been reporting on, and it is trick kishgs but the conservatives don t want mccarthy, but the conservatives have nowhere else to go. and dana bash, we are watching these 19 rebels fall in line behind congressman jordan, and i remember having a conservation with a democratic congressman 19 years ago in the midterm, and how the house republicans would likely win, and she said that she didn t think that kevin mccarthy was going to be speaker, and she thought that jim jordan had been, and she had heard the whispers from the colleagues that jim jordan would actually end up, and that was just gossip, but it was from a member of gossip, and we are certainly watching something interesting play out now. and the fact that he gave the speech, and they are now consolidating, and now, it is something as innocent as what
it to and how it is playing out, because the reality is that, yes, it is possible dana, that there are chess moves, but there is also a scenario that what is playing out is going to dictate the outcome, and we don t know how anything that is happening on the floor right now may ultimately influence who is going to become eventually the speak over the house. john king, you and i have been in this town for a long time, and what is your interpretation of the jim jordan speech? it sounded like a jim jordan nominating speech? it sounds like he likes his role of the chairman of the oversight committee, and as the speaker of the house, you have to oversee the herd, and he knows the chaos of the house, and do you really want that number one job because of the responsibilities of it or the bulldozer to go after hunter