not been the charm for kevin mccarthy. you see the tally on the screen. we are waiting any minute for this vote to officially be closed, and then the question is what happens next? do they try for time number six? where unless something has dramatically changed and we don t think it has, mccarthy will probably lose again. do they try to take a break? what are the concessions that are happening behind the scenes? we have the best team in the biz, here to answer the questions to the best of their abilities including capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd, nbc news colleague, and steve kornacki is posted at the big board and former chief communications adviser to former speaker paul ryan and msnbc political analyst brendan buck is with us, too. if you re looking at this saying, okay, i ve been watching this coverage for six hours. what has changed? what is different? what is going to change the moment? here is w
has been on the math, right? what needs to happen here? how many people need to vote present? what about the hypothetical question where democrats have someone as speaker of the house? because us through it. what is interesting about the conversation, is what we re tracking all day and you re looking at the republicans who are voting against kevin mccarthy and coming into today there were 20 who voted against him yesterday, and 21st, victoria sparks o-from indiana on the last two ballots have voted present, her rationale seems a little different but the 20 who came in today opposed kevin mccarthy yesterday have opposed him on every vote today and all voted for byron donalds. one thing that is interesting with ken buck, this conversation about ken buck, floating the possibility of steve scalise, he doesn t have to be nominated from the floor in this vote. the interesting thing to me is that buck s name is always one of the first called. it is alphabetical as they do this. buck just sa
scalise, okay, look at this alphabetically, ken buck is voting, four members will have voted before him, there will be 16 of these anti-mccarthy republicans still to come. so if buck gets it rolling just by saying the name steve scalise, do you hear any of these other anti-mccarthy folks pick up on that and also say the name steve scalise? that s something i think i m now looking for in this next round of voting. because yes, there has been no movement. nobody who has been with kevin mccarthy is actually jumping ship to the anti-mccarthy side today, except as i said, again, victoria sparks, voting present for whatever her reasons are. but nobody who has been against mccarthy has moved over to his side. so they seem completely dug in. and that possibility, to have somebody out there, you know, floating now the name steve scalise, which has been on everybody s mind i think as this
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