than the country. . i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it s 4:00 in new york and yes, it s groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that s despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off the table sunday night and into monday, to the holdouts in his car gets caucus, a major allowance to the hard right republicans, he said he would lower the number from 5 to 1. he said he previously not accept that. congress and matt gaetz, he nominated donald trump for the speakership and described the power to remove the speaker as anyone, anywhere, anytime, raising questions about whether anybod
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