good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, you re looking at a live image of the well of the house of representatives, the nation s capital, where they re set to reconvene out there about three and a half hours pm journey, when they do reconvene, they ll be setting about the business of electing a speaker of the house, for the 118th congress, something they have failed to do for the first time in 100 years. today, kevin mccarthy, the house leader of the republican party, long expected to be the next speaker, should republicans take the, house was put up for speaker, and failed to obtain the magical 218 votes threshold he needs to become speaker. he failed once, he felt twice, even three times. that s right, today, three more votes, three more failed votes for kevin mccarthy, which brings the total to six. and that s because he has a very narrow majority in a caucus of about 20, exactly 20, in the last few, votes republicans, who do not want to vote for kevin kathy, the spea
a little bit of growing unity. we ll find out the next 17 outvoted members are gonna do. interestingly, two of those came off the ye column. you ve got all the democrats who voted voted nay, right now, the nays have it. here s the other interesting thing. if they cannot adjourn, they have to go to another roll call vote. you either adjourn or go to roll call vote on speaker. interesting thing here is, you ve got three groups, you never kevin, see of the democratic caucus, and then you would always kevin people. so the interesting thing is hakeem jeffries, and the democrats, as we heard slotkin say, said no, we re not gonna help me out here. we re not gonna let you adjourn, we want you to force this question. right now you have three names, i think if you got two more nays, and that does it. i guess they re holding the vote open, but again, this is so strange, don edwards here s the gavel from the clerk, let s hear what she has to say. so the republicans are mad,