while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za
on the debt ceiling and government shutdowns, all driving to this point. it s why john boehner is no longer speaker. swap are ryan s longer speaker. it s why kevin mccarthy failed and his four separate to be speaker of the house. what s different now from then is that the core group of, insurgents or radicals, however you want to frame them, they have grown, they have more power, and leadership has gotten weaker. step by step by step, as leadership in the party and asked conferences got and weaker, they moved their way into this position where their weakness is exacerbated every single day, watching it play out endless simulating fashions, and does once considered a small group trying to find some semblance of power, not very much control of the conference to some degree. thinking about that, a resident s story in, julian s salazar, the contacts who provided, we have seen this before in a sense, the idea of what it takes, but there was a different majority margin before, but there is