were, you know, put in exile. that s what they ll have to get to. you ll have the folks. mary miller just miller. let s wait and see, chip roy and if you have scott perry voting yes, you ll have the serious people will now come over to kevin and then you ll have the kind of the clown show for lack of a better phrase, right? the people who are just they re just here for theater, right? if those are the folks still outstanding mccarthy will win. that s i think the key point. that was mary miller. mary miller who had previously been part of the bloc of 20 just flipped her vote. you see this building momentum in terms of flitting the bloc of the 20 who are obstinate against mccarthy. the thing to look at if you don t read the tea leaves of politics every day, the difference if that 20 between the intransigent ones there not in good faith to simply make a stand and show and frankly burn the house down, and the ones who have principled policy differences where they re
we are only a matter of hours away now from in the house is gonna be back in session tomorrow at noon, and they will do what they did today all over again, after they failed to elect a speaker on three consecutive ballots today, leaving kevin mccarthy fighting for his political life. but there is a lot going on behind the scene as we speak, including an effort by the so-called cover never kevin republicans to turn things in their direction. that as kevin mccarthy tells cnn he spoke to former president trump tonight and he, quote, reiterated support. trump to come out and reiterate his support for you? trump has also already reiterated support. i was a call a trump? what did you guys discuss? what was the nature of it? i mean, look from my perspective all republicans get together it does not look good for republicans stronger what we went through today then becomes a focus, united this actually stay he wants you to stay in the race? meanwhile, t
house republicans as was the indication 100 years ago are denying the man who thought he would be speaker in this case, kevin mccarthy, the necessary votes to win the speakers gavel. meaning that, right now, the house is completely paralyzed. we do not have a speaker, official members of congress or rules. and the math is frankly, only getting worse for kevin mccarthy. as the process drags out, the total number of republicans not voting for him is going up. the total number of republicans voting for him is going down. let s go straight to cnn s congressional correspondent manu raju. we re hearing that each side of this republican against republican standoff might appoint four members to negotiate some way forward? that s what sources tell us. that s what s under discussion right now. to come up with some sort of group, a negotiating grope to break the standoff paralyzing the house and preventing the congress from moving forward. four people close to kevin mccarthy. and othe
reporter: all of these options are thorny. if they go to another round of balloting, it s not clear i would be surprised if mccarthy were able to peel off the number of people that he needs from this 20 no vote coalition on his side to actually become speaker on this next ballot. what we are hearing is that the mccarthy team could go for a motion to adjourn until tomorrow. you are right, that would buy them time. it would save them another round of embarrassment if he were to lose on this fourth ballot. as i was walking over here, i tried to find some key members of that 20 no vote coalition to ask if they would support that motion to adjourn. right now, democrats have said they will not represent republicans do that. they are whipping against that motion. republicans would have to go it alone. they would not be able to pass that motion to adjourn unless some of these 20 republicans were also on board and supportive of it. i talked, for example, with congressman andy bigg
the honoring kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [applause] the honoring jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. [applause] no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by sur name of speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [applause] the gentleman is recognized. thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done. to get big things done. to solve the problems. i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending that is driving unflagrants will the gentleman yield? will the house be in order? and we all know what those problems are. we ve been talking about them for