is that, you know, to have a congress that can t function, it is just embarrassing. we re the greatest nation in the world. how can that be? president biden calls the drama playing out on the house floor embarrassing. this morning, there s still no speaker after three more rounds of voting. we ll have the latest from capitol hill. plus, buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is still in critical condition, but the team says he s showing signs of improvement. we ll get an update on his health. and the president says he s planning a trip to the southern border amid a record number of migrants crossing into the united states. what we re learning this morning about that trip. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the house of representatives is set to vote again today on its next speaker after republicans failed to unite around a single nominee for the second straight day. after thr
he s very nice but i will tell you this, in a negotiation, in a negotiation with chuck schumer, i wouldn t want to be on the other side of byron donalds. following three failed votes, the house voted to adjourn till:00 giving mccarthy a chance to negotiate with the 20 dissenters but once 8:00 p.m. rolled around and it apparently became clear that he still lacked the votes he needed to become speaker, he and his republican supporters called for postponing the next vote until noon today. democrats, however, voiced their opposition to delaying the vote again forcing the clerk to call a vote on whether to have a vote. this caused even more chaos on the house floor. after some of those in favor of delaying the seventh speaker vote arrived late to cast ballots. ultimately they sorted out the mess and the yea votes won out putting us in the exact same situation this morning as we were yesterday.
214, 215. or if they are not there, if they are not there. john: if they are not there or vote present, whichever way. sometimes the math changes. here is what i wanted to ask you about. kevin mccarthy said on his way to the floor, i wouldn t read anything into the votes today and we know a lot of horse trading has been going on, which may suggest that there is a deal in the works here. what do you say? yes, that s how i read it as well. and for another reason. these deals look, people have very long and deep objections that they want accommodated if not responded to. i think deals don t happen immediately. if people feel that deeply about their disagreements, i think kevin mccarthy is taking the longer view of this, and look, if you are him and waiting to be speaker for seven years and in the interim, has done a good job on policy, it s not like he voted for the omnibus, that s nancy pelosi s fault, and
demands for opponents on key committees, also reserve the right to call a speaker vote in the middle of the congress if they don t like mccarthy. here is something to watch. potential absences that could either help or hurt mccarthy depending on who is out. 1923, took nine votes to elect the speaker. but also took three days, this is day three. now, right now on the scoreboard there are 14 votes against kevin mccarthy. he can only lose four if we are at 434 members voting. and so that s the issue. we are at 14 votes, we are going to go to an eighth vote here, an eighth vote. the question is whether or not they do that right away. last night we had an adjournment for several hours, they came back into session and then the house adjourned again. they voted to adjourn. you have to have enough votes to adjourn. you had mccarthy allies who wanted the adjournment. democrats wanted to continue to embarrass mccarthy and show how he did not have the votes and they would have teamed with some
not be occurring after going out and complaining about other folks that are doing it. so i m going to say there is no agreement at this time. you can see the votes are occurring, and we are asking for transformational change, not for ourselves but for the people we came here to represent and some of the things go ahead. john: if i could, as i asked kellyanne conway, the posture of kevin mccarthy going into the house today in lieu of the negotiations last night and again this morning he said i would not read anything into the votes today. that was suggestive to me and to kellyanne there is something in the works here and that what we are looking at right now is just pro forma, but in the days ahead could be a vote to get him to the magic number. this is politics, of course he will put things in the best light and spin it. you expect that, read through that and see what s occurring. he does not have 218, didn t have it yesterday and chances are if nothing changes won t have it tomo