432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. let s get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. i think you saw we made very good progress. we ll come back tonight and i believe tonight we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. just remind me of what my father always told me. it s not how you start, it s how you finish. we have to finish for the american public. this is now the fifth longest speaker election in house history. mccarthy lacks the votes, however 15 house republicans who oppose mccarthy are now in his camp. i know you re all wondering what changed the vote. i think i can
chris, extraordinary things that we are watching a realtime, the disrobing of the house minority leader, the man who would be speaker, essentially crawling politically naked into what he thought was gonna be s finest hour. watruly an apt metaphor, and uncharted territory. and one of those things, election is run like this, you don t know what the outcome is you simply don t know what will happen next. it s not often that you get that that midnight aca but where john mccain vote where you give the down some. but they are few and far between for instance, joy, and thank you for passing this off, i appreciate it. for those, joining if you re looking at what that is, that s a motion to adjourn. kevin mccarthy the would-be speaker has lost 11 consecutive votes he set a new contemporary record, we re now back into the 1830s, which is the last of 11 votes happen, 1850s or is like 133. he s lost 11 votes, now there s a motion to adjourn, to take some time off from the, losing to do s
good evening,. alex through the conversation, then you are having with david floofy. i like when i get a laugh. the idea that you just said, we re going to have a speaker and odds are the person will probably be a republican. that s where we are. i want to cover our bases, the fact that that s even a possibility, that it might not be somebody from kevin mccarthy s party tells you where we re at. thank you, my friend. thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. and that appears to be exactly where we are right now. in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of time
good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you to all of us joining us at this hour. they say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. that appears to be exactly where we are right now in the middle of insanity. just about an hour ago the house of representatives adjourned for the third day without selecting a speaker of the house today the lower chamber has already held five votes for speaker. and congressman kevin mccarthy fable to since the nominations on all five of those votes, bringing the total number of times that he has failed to win the speakers gavel up to 11. that s the most failed elections for speaker and any congress and over 100 years. surpassing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker all the way back in the year 1923. throughout those failed votes, kevin mccarthy hasn t picked up one sin
you are telling me, you dream that true. i did. it wasn t as close my dream. some very bad liberating takes us on the air tonight. and tomorrow at noon, when they resume, let s hope some serious business gets done. on that, note i wish you a very good night, well of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow. he set a new contemporary record, we re now back into the 1830s collapsed. of 11 votes happen, 1850s or is like 133. he s lost 11 votes, now there s a motion to adjourn, to take some time off from the, losing to do some more talk about this, colleagues to work in a deal so you won t keep losing. he s been losing by basically the same margins over and over. he can t afford to lose, for and he s been losing 20 over and over. one of the allies has made a motion to adjourn, as was the case 24 hours ago. if you watch innocent, thinking i feel like i was just here. i feel, you i do as well, because this is where