rules package being in place. it s the rules for how congress runs. beyond that, it s anybody s guess. republicans have set their focus on launching frivolous investigations into things like covid s origin, the so-called woke ideology. mccarthy actually said that last night. many of which mccarthy highlighted during his first speech as speaker. but if last week is any indication of what, or if this last week is any indication of what the 118th congress is going to be like, there s going to be a lot more dysfunction ahead. joining me now, eugene scott, national political reporter for the washington post. good morning to you, eugene. i was looking forward to this conversation with you because i ve been in it. i finished at two in the morning when this happened, and i haven t yet process what we are supposed to make of this. whether this was an anomaly, a bad, week and the horse s stone, or whether this is a taste of what we re going to get in this congress. only time will tell whether th
0 now they re going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let s listen in. gaetz. present. present. he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed present votes don t hurt. it s at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let s listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries. david scott, jeffries. kevin mccarthy walks off the he does not look happy. kevin mccarthy walks off the floor i m sorry, walks up the floor rather. matt gaetz, he needed him to vote yes not present. he s trying to convince him. he appears to be trying to convince matt gaetz to vote yes and not present. also, right, if he could get lauren boebert to change from present we haven t seen
captions by vitac www.vitac.com and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c. it has been quite a day and quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become house speaker. the house adjourned. members then reconvened briefly, only to adjourn until noon tomorrow, with the speaker more upbeat about his chances. why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? reporter: he s hearing more positive responses from those opponents, the people that have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which mccarthy has made a number of concessions, ranging on political issues, how his outside group engages on key issues, as well as giving them more power and more sway over
bulwark, two former members of congress, donna evans is here and david jolly. day two. garrett haake, you re doing heroic reporting on capitol hill, tell me what s happening where you re standing right now. reporter: well, as the nomination speech for kevin mccarthy on the last round indicated, it s ground hog day. i mean, we are going around and around in circles up here with more of these votes, and i think what we re starting to see are some cracks forming in kevin mccarthy s coalition. not so much that they re ready to bolt on him or cave to the rebels here, but an acknowledgment by a strategy which mccarthy is essentiallying with essentially being rejected over and over again isn t going to work. we re hearing some members start to talk about maybe we need to start talking about other candidates, meeting in small groups. i don t think there s going to
you have that there is enough votes for that person on the second ballot because you have got so many of the republicans say we wanted these changes, particularly the motion to vacate which mccarthy has given along with several of the rule changes kevin mccarthy laid out yesterday the conservatives wanted. how are you going to get the numbers for earn that . seems like you are headed into ha real mess. griff, we shouldn t be in a hurry to make a bad decision. it s worth it to fight for a few hours or even a few days to get the best possible person to speaker instead of surrendering to the status quo and surrender guilty to establishment. if you want earmarks continuing kevin mccarthy is your speaker. if you want massive democrat spending bills not majority. last time he was majority leader when we had control of the congress kevin mccarthy is your speaker. if you wan surrender the power f the purse and true principles kevin mccarthy would be your choice for speaker. that s not who w