than the country. . i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it s 4:00 in new york and yes, it s groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that s despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off the table sunday night and into monday, to the holdouts in his car gets caucus, a major allowance to the hard right republicans, he said he would lower the number from 5 to 1. he said he previously not accept that. congress and matt gaetz, he nominated donald trump for the speakership and described the power to remove the speaker as anyone, anywhere, anytime, raising questions about whether anybod
so we ve got some breaking news. kevin mccarthy loses on the tenth ballot to be speaker. he has now and again, it s not over until it s gavelled in. so far in this tenth count, he has lost six republicans and that is going to keep him from becoming speaker on this tenth ballot. yes. i m going to pick up word that charlie said, anarchy. we ve had anarchists in american history. we ve never really had them in congress before. but i do also pick up on nick s point. the constitution says almost nothing about how the speichers is elected. it says the house will elect the speaker. all of these rules have grown up over 150, 175, 200 years. and the rules themselves are flawed. the glues to me about this, and this is contrarian, this is our testimony working. in 1856, there were 119 ballots. in 1849, it went on for 19 days. these all have precedents in
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