the u.s. house of representatives still without a speaker after ten votes. good evening, i m wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is a special edition of the the situation room. good evening, wolf. i m erin burnett, tempers and frustration mounting, if you can say that, possibly at a peak. the last time the race for speaker has gone on this long was more than 160 years ago. here we are tonight, wolf. it s amazing what s going on. what s taking place is truly stunning. 21 republicans declining to vote for kevin mccarthy today, leaving the california congressman without the votes needed to finally grab the speaker s gavel. the humiliating losses comes despite him privately offering up even more concessions. and we re learning that the negotiators are pushing to strike a deal tonight, in an attempt to show progress. what will that progress look like? will it be enough to give mccarthy the supp
alexis mcadams and live in new york city with more details for us. when we were out there last night for new year s eve celebrations we saw a lot of police activity in the area rushed in to help the three officers who are recovering we can tell you the teenage suspect is being called a violent islamic extremist who was on the fbi radar for weeks. take a look on your screen this is where it unfolded in midtown manhattan there were thousands of people out there with the three officers were attacked in the area and it was during the major celebrations with police say the 19-year-old trevor bickford of maine pulled out a machete style knife and started swinging he struck two officers in the head and injured a third nypd officer. what are those officers as a rookie cop who literally just got a job in new york city. all are expectcted to be okay investigators say this could be a possible terror attack, sources tell me the suspect s own family called the police on him back in dece
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crockett. jeffries. crow? jeffries. on this ballot, we re about 50 names away from him. he seems the most dug in of everything. and if there s a second place in that category, it might be bob good who comes shortly in the order every gaetz. you already have three names who have continued to be against mccarthy. if gaetz does indeed vote against mccarthy, which we have every reason to believe that he will, that will be four and it will make it mathematically impossible for mccarthy to win on this ballot. the for the first ballot, the magic number 216 because there was an absent democrat, he has tweeted that he is back and here is here to vote again. so his presence is going to change the math. it will raise the magic number to 217. mccarthy had 213 on the first vote. so you can see, with 217 as the magic number, you got to pick up four from this list. he s already lost his first three chances. there are only four left on here. the next one he loses means we
do a motion, or pull the motion to vacate and there are more democrats in the chamber than republicans, could we see a democratic speaker or am i i wouldn t go that far, katy, but i think it is one of the things under discussion. for example early on in the process, mccarthy made the argument and came out to the conference and said do you want eric swalwell, that s the name he chose, to start every day with a motion to vacate? because that is what you would get. he apparently backed away from that argue. and i don t know if they found a way to codify that own members of the majority can call for a bhoegs motion to vacate. i don t know if that is possible. but if that is possible, every congress starts with a prayer and a pledge and a motion to vacate. we could be looking at that as a baseline scenario. we knew this next two years was going to be wild, i don t think any of us anticipated it would be quite this wild. a two-minute warning for the