fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re goin
is going to do. mccarthy is fighting to win over more support, making some extreme concessions to get there. but still right now he doesn t have the numbers to win the gavel. all of this comes on the two-year mark of the insurrection on the capitol. we re going to get to all of it. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, what re h what are you hearing at this hour. reporter: kevin mccarthy is on a conference call with republican members talking about this emerging agreement. but did he not have an agreement yet with the holdouts, the people denying him the path to speakership. he said we don t have an agreement but we are in a good position and are having meetings. now in this call he and his top allies detailed this agreement which would allow some of the members on the far right to have more power and sway and equal representation across key committees and detailed some of the concessions that he has made. one of those issues is the issue of allowing one single member th