good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, you re looking at a live image of the well of the house of representatives, the nation s capital, where they re set to reconvene out there about three and a half hours pm journey, when they do reconvene, they ll be setting about the business of electing a speaker of the house, for the 118th congress, something they have failed to do for the first time in 100 years. today, kevin mccarthy, the house leader of the republican party, long expected to be the next speaker, should republicans take the, house was put up for speaker, and failed to obtain the magical 218 votes threshold he needs to become speaker. he failed once, he felt twice, even three times. that s right, today, three more votes, three more failed votes for kevin mccarthy, which brings the total to six. and that s because he has a very narrow majority in a caucus of about 20, exactly 20, in the last few, votes republicans, who do not want to vote for kevin kathy, the spea
because he doesn t want to vote again tonight. if there s a vote, he s gonna lose. one of his allies, tom, coles said let s adjourn. there s a voice vote, matt gates objected to being a voice vote, he said i want the yeas and nays, which is right as a, member now you ve seen the yeas and nays recorded. democrats want to stay here and have another vote, mccarthy, let s stay here and show the world leader now the votes for a seventh time. kevin, kathy and the people supporting and want to escape that seventh humiliation. and you see republicans sane but of course question is, will any republicans breakaway on this procedural vote to say no, let s do it, again let s make kevin kathy stand for speaker again, and once again we voted down. so that s what we re seeing now, for folks to understand why that vote looks different than what worse beings seen all day. revving roll call vote, that s what s happening right, now i want to go to someone who has been carefully following the