and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthy s rolling humiliation for this evening. manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they adjourn for the evening, what happens then? then the negotiations will continue. actually, the motion to adjourn is a good sign for kevin mccarthy, who has had one bad result after another. 11 straight times being rejected, not being able to get a majority of the house to elect a speaker, paralyzing this institution, the start of the 118th congress. that is the first order of business. if they can t elect a speaker, then they can adjourn. that s really the only two options. but the majority of
business. if they can t elect a speaker, then they can adjourn. that s really the only two options. but the majority of the house to adjourn. they wanted to adjourn. kevin mccarthy today all day long has wanted to adjourn this house in order to allow for negotiations to happen. but democrats didn t want to allow him to do that. they wanted to see him fail time and time again. and some republicans, those holdouts would not give him the votes either. so as a result, mccarthy has had to go through this experience and seeing him lose time and time again. but behind the scenes, there have been curious negotiations happening to try to come sort of resolution between a handful of mccarthy detractors and mccarthy allies, try to give things that the members of the far right house freedom caucus in particular have demand, to give them more leverage over the speakership, to give them more sway over the legislative process. those negotiations have happened from last night but beyond and through th
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