snchts is there a deal for speaker in the works? i m erin burnett and we re out front . we re at a key moment in this totally grueling fight for speaker of the house. we re told negotiations are under way at this moment as an 11th vote is now under way. it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost, lost 11 votes. five just today. despite now the longest speaker contest in generations. as we re watching this, we re told that mccarthy support aernz his critics are at least talking. they ve been behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal in an attempt to show some progress. but what might that deal look like? mccarthy already essentially given them everything that they want. he is promising votes on term limits, allowing just one member to force a vote to oust him, just one. and there are four in the never kevin camp. if there is just one more republican that mccarthy can t get the gavel without help from democrats. there is so much to get to tonight. let s go to capitol
North korea will reject the results of what it calls the forced autopsy which it says was not witnessed by north korean officials. Who knows if the north korean will ever get that body back or what that autopsy will say about the cause of death. Brian, thank you. Im brianna keilar. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, breaking news, the dow hits an all time high again seven days in a row. Trump taking the credit. Does he deserve it . And the secret Service Investigating an incident tonight involving trumps mor or the cade, what happened, and trumps twitter tirade. He tweeted, deleted, retweeted. Lets go out front. Good evening. Im erin burnett. One thing going right for trump. An alltime high. These are the facts. Stocks hit a record today in the midst of their best streak in 25
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look at it. but 200 that are for mccarthy and at some point you start leaking on the other side of the aisle. and what happens then? it seems like he said you re at this crucial moment. you re at a hinge. once you re past this hinge, if you don t get there, then you re in the great unknown. there were two buckets that had to get done. a group that said they want to negotiate and try to get. there then the other group of people who say they ll never get there. and trying to corral the entirety of the people who want to get there, that was the plan for the day. mccart mccarthy is behind closed doors now. can he show progress on bucket sfwhun. that s the question. he briefly appeared on the floor but went right back out to your point. all right. we re going to take a very quick break. our special coverage no, we re not taking a break.
we did. it was a lot of fun. reporter: snl gave this small pennsylvania company monkey boys productions less than 48 hours to create the podium. snl first suggested rigging a segue, but that was deemed dangerous so they took a motorized wheelchair, removed the seat, and built a podium on it out of foam and wood. mccart mccarthy controlled wit a joysti joystick. in her first rehearsal, mccarthy s driving was a little bit tentative. something you ve never done before but once she got the hang of it she was playing around having a great time, trying to run people over. reporter: of course even nonmotorized podiums have mishaps. whooo! reporter: hillary s collapsed. and obama s we cannot sustain whoops. was that my reporter: yep. presidential seal. all of you know who i am. reporter: podiums are always
democrat and said it goes nowhere near solving the nation s fiscal nightmare, according to democrat erskine bowles. a lot to talk about a lot of reaction, ccart mccarthy, good morning to you on the hill, what do you think? the president has good words to say but the plan doesn t match what he talks about, he said he ll cut but freezes discretionary spending, when he s increased it by 84% in the last three years alone and didn t ever talk about the tax increases, upon a recession, what we are going through, hurt the economy and he has an opportunity to be serious about about cutting and because the democrats did not pass a budget last term the republicans propose cuts now to discretionary spending and it will be $100 billion, we will vote on this week, gives him an opportunity to thunder the economy around, and, create the jobs that we hope america you have said repeatedly