good evening, chris. what a ride. i mean history, day three, we hadn t today three of history. they, as rebecca saying on friday, big british parliament energy without the intelligence and the phone. she did say that part, but i will. i do love british parliament energy. i i like the rockets this. i m into it. there s something into the rockets in this, although this is just uncontrolled chaos. nobody is driving the bus. and here we are. thank you, as always. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it is 9 pm on the east coast and there is still no house of representatives seated in the united states of america. today, republican leader kevin mccarthy lost three rounds voting for speaker, bringing his total number of failed votes to six. this evening, the house was set to hold a seventh vote for speaker of the house, but within the past hour, the house voted to adjourn and close up shop for the night and come back tomorrow. when it drag this thin
set to hold the seventh vote for speaker of the house, but within the past, hour the house voted to adjourn, to close up shop for the night and come back tomorrow, because why not check this thing out another day. now that vote to adjourn was on par with the rest of the chaos and confusion that as characterized this entire speaker debacle. majority of republicans voted to end the session and wait until tomorrow, while all democrats voted to keep the session going. but since right now neither party controls the house voting process, the whole vote turned into what might politely be called a go rodeo. there was yelling, cries of foul play from democrats over the fact that several republicans were allowed to change their votes after the clock ran out. and this, at the age of 216. the nays are 214. accordingly the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until noon, tomorrow. and the end, and to mccarthy republicans, the never kevin caucus, sided with pro
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second term, which is actually better than the first time, which began with an insurrection. so i guess we re making progress. i guess. it s chaos. it s dysfunction, quite honestly, it s a clown show. this is something we warned the american people about going into the general election. they don t care about government. they don t care about leadership. they re not accepting of our country evolving into the multi racial, multi cultural democracy that we are. the republican party has become the party of lies, of trump, of qanon, maga, and white supremacy. and i say become, it s just becoming more public that this is who they are. they re being hijacked right now by the freedom caucus, which was a traditional, quote unquote, nativist approach to governing, which is white, patriarchal, hegemonic supremacy with women and lgbtq