beaker, no member sworn in and the only agenda is the fight for leadership. where things stand right now. and then on the eve of the anniversary at the january 6th attack on democracy, a warning from the former capitol police chief that this could happen again. he will be here. and an incredible update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin and his remarkable improvement, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night . good evening, once again, i am stephanie it ruhle. or is the sound being less than an heard across the hour away from going province, as québec s scrape away the icy into day four without a speaker of the house aftermath of a winter. kevin mccarthy s cocktail. bid for the speakership i should probably go back to has now been bed. that was defeated a total my reaction. of but, here a 11 times in i am, outside a row and just in the cold. ice, the past three days. the house adjourned just a few hours ago and will be put back into session at into mauro.
where things stand right now, and on the eve of the anniversary of the january 6th attack on democracy, a warning from the former capitol police chief, this could happen again. we will be here. an incredible update on buffalo bills player as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night . good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, or let s end an hour away i m going today for with our speaker the house, kevin mccarthy s bid for the speakership has now been defeated, a total of 11 times in a row, in just the past three days. they adjourn just a few hours ago, and will commit back into session soon. the car thieves now made several concessions to the group, now known as never kevin republicans, who are dead set against seeing him with the gavel. but tonight, we are hearing there is a potential deal in the works, and kevin mccarthy seems to think it s getting closer to his goal. maybe, we maybe somebody else we get to a? team. who? he has put it up. to win. h
just a short time ago cnn s manu raju reported that there would be a republican conference meeting tomorrow morning. that, however, we understand has now changed. i want to go to cnn s melanie zanona at the capitol with the new reporting on that and mccarthy s frame of mind as well. melanie, what have you learned? reporter: well, things have not moved in kevin mckarth chriss direction since that third ballot where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for kevin mccarthy and his allies. we ve seen supporters going into his office. we re told he has been working the phones. he is still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i just spoke to a gop lawmaker, this is some breaking news here, this is a lawmaker who texted me, this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they had just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that member to flip. so
that third ballot, where he failed to get the votes. it s been back to the drawing board for ken mccarthy and his allies. we have seen supporters going into his office. we are told he has been working the phones. he still hoping to negotiate and not planning to drop out. but meanwhile, i spoke to a gop lawmaker. this is some breaking news here. this lawmaker texted me and said this is someone who supported mccarthy. they said they have just gotten a phone call from one of the never kevin republicans, who is trying to grow their opposition and is trying to get that number to flip. essentially what you have here is kevin mccarthy and his office in the capital, trying to get to 218. and you have this opposition digging in and trying to work directly against him. look, this is one of the potential drawbacks of doing the motion to adjourn. there is a lot of concern initially about whether, if they were to send members home, about whether the opposition would have time to grow, whe
look, we re only a matter of hours away now from when the house is going to be back in session tomorrow at noon when they ll do what they did today all over again after they failed to elect a speaker on three consecutive ballots today. leaving kevin mccarthy fighting for his political life. there is a lot going on behind the scenes, as we speak, including an effort by the so-called never kevin republicans to turn things in their direction. that is kevin mccarthy tells cnn he spoke to former president trump tonight, and he, quote, reiterated support. do you need trump to come out and reiterate his support for you? trump has already reiterated his support. how was your call with trump? what did you guys discuss? what was the nature of it? i mean, look, from that perspective, he thinks it s better that all the republicans get together and solve this. it doesn t look good for republicans, but we want to be able to solve it where we re stronger in the long run. what we wen