a single statement on his site could kill all of mccarthy s ambitions. but his shrunken clout was remarkably obvious tomorrow. so much losing for the former president and his kevin is the very beginning of the hour with aforementioned editor at large of the bulwark charlie sykes is here. nick confessore, investigative reporter for the new york times. mark gay is back, rick stengel is here, former top state department official, all msnbc contributors. charlie sykes, i start with you. well, you know, first of all, i m really glad you were connecting the dots between what happened two years ago. this is a republican party that is addicted to chaos theater. two years ago you had election deniers that tried to hold election democracy hostage. there is no sense of shame. two years later we re seeing many of the same election
would not want to recognize the devastation of january 6th, who are perfectly happy there is no mention of january 6th on the tour. so we are seeing an extra in a contrast between our caucus who now nine times has voted 212 unified votes for the most talented leader in our caucus, hakeem jeffries versus the other side which has a bunch of folks that are just malcontents, keep choosing people that are not prepared to lead and of course mr. mccarthy is not prepared to lead . do you care if mccarthy wins or not? do you view him as better/different than anyone else on the menu and do you understand who else might even be on the menu? i don t know other than the three names that were called in the last series of votes, one was the former president, imagine that. it sent shockwaves through the colleagues i was sitting too, recognizing that tomorrow marks
involving the excessive concentration of power. it doesn t feel that this is what this is all about, though. if it was you think? all of kevin mccarthy s concessions, his self-gelding over the last 24 hours would have moved some vote. right. it doesn t seem there is anything to negotiate other than when kevin mccarthy is going to present matt gaetz and lauren boebert with his head on a platter. right. there is nothing that he can give them at this point. so there is this certain just addiction to anarchy and chaos and nihilism that also runs through all of this. yeah, i mean, to charlie s good point about nick s good point, mccarthy s concede all the policy adjustments. he s conceded that one member can get rid of a speaker. he as already lost.
more movement here. as i said in the last hour, the floor is not where the action is right now. clearly. it s in some of the side rooms. i know, i know. in some of the back rooms that ring the floor. and one floor down beneath the chamber itself, we ve been having some of these side meetings. i ve been talking to members coming in and out. the word is these factions are exchanging paper, which is to say they have actually put what they want wand what they re willing to grant each other on paper, which feels like a small step. but as i said in the last hour, the trust deficit is so enormous between kevin mccarthy and the votes against him here requires that. and while this is a ridiculously small step and one that probably should have happened days, if not weeks ago, it indicates they ve at least agreed on what they agree on enough to write it down. i think that is a step in the right direction. and one other thing i ve heard from close mccarthy allies here, dusty johnson, who i t
no good for the country. we talk about how did kevin mccarthy end up in the situation, it s because he never anticipated such a small majority. he would get to injured ignore the crazy caucus david, they are gobbling, let s listen in. will come back to you after this. the tellers agreed in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432. of which the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. the