institution. he s not alone. kevin mccarthy is now agreeing to major concessions overnight as he tries to appease the group of gop hard liners who are standing between kevin mccarthy and the speakers gavel. we have an update this morning on damar hamlin still in critical condition but showing signs of improvement. we ll talk to his close friend, indianapolis colts safety rookie robby tomlin who just visited him. first to the speaker drama on capitol hill set to continue for day three as republican leader kevin mccarthy is seeking the job but apparently no closer to it after two days, six votes in which he has failed to secure the 218 votes needed to become sp speaker. the stalemate has rendered the house of representatives useless. no business can be conducted until a speaker is elected. mccarthy insists he is making progress, giving concessions to the 20 hard liners. the question is will it be enough. right now mccarthy does not appear anywhere ready to give up the fi
essentially a primary election. it was uncontested at the last minute andy biggs through his name in there, it wasn t close, it was 86% for kevin, the number on the floor is 92% for kevin. it s like why won t you abide by the results of the previous elections? now look, i will say, kevin s done a lot of work. as i listed off some of the compromises that have already been made, shrunk that number, he was at 188 in november, he s at 201, 202 on the floor right now. and after today he might be at 212, somewhere in that range. but if he s never going to get to 218, is the window closing for him, do you think? i think at some point in the dialogue across the conferences if we re never going to get to kevin we can go through the coping phases and everything else and be mad about it but at some point we have to have a speaker. warren davidson, thank you very much. you have a big day ahead of you.
of the judiciary committee if kevin is speaker. some of the rules changes that kevin offered, offering amendments to prevent unfunded m mandates, those are things fiscal conservatives would have gotten on their knees and begged for in 2013, now they re here. so it was a principle, policy driven objection to the way john boehner was treating the conservative wing of the party. i get the feeling here, this is more of a personality thing, they don t like kevin. it s not driven on principle, it s personality. you said yesterday you were approached by some of them about being a consensus candidate. someone asked me a question to a reporter and apparently i accidentally confirmed someone said you d be a great speaker. a republican lawmaker said that? yeah. we were joking last night 15
participate, there s a way to change the number. nancy pelosi won with 216. so during some of our vote series yesterday, a lower number than 218 would have won a majority of the vote. so, for example, when we move to adjourn, that was 216 to 214. but would that include some people voting present, some democrats not voting, what would that look like? it comes down to how can you put that stack together so ultimately the whole number becomes a majority? i don t think present covers it, i think you have to not vote or vote for kevin. he s still trying to get to 218, made major concessions to the 20 hard liners voting against him. do you think the concessions he made overnight has softened some of the hard liners and will they support him? i talked to people who came out of those notions. for some people it did make a difference. they re meeting this morning at 8:00, they re going to have a discussion amongst themselves to say how many of this does it move? is there anything left t
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