thank you so much for letting us into your homes all weeklong during these extraordinary times. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber. it s friday, have you heard? i hope you have a great week, nicolle. you, too. welcome to the beat. this republican chaos is continuing on this friday night in the house, which just rejected kevin mccarthy for speaker again, the 13th time. that s two more defeats for mccarthy today. kevin mccarthy is pretty much stuck at this point. he can t even stop these votes from taking place and losing over and over again. house republicans now are on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they re not careful. what s it going to take to get over the top? we ll get it done tonight. it looks like he will lose on the 13th ballot. i have a couple members flying back. that s what it s been looking like as the weekend now looms on this friday evening on the east coast. it s clear this is one of the worst weeks for any party leade
and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthy s rolling humiliation for this evening. manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they adjourn for the evening, what happens then? then the negotiations will continue. actually, the motion to adjourn is a good sign for kevin mccarthy, who has had one bad result after another. 11 straight times being rejected, not being able to get a majority of the house to elect a speaker, paralyzing this institution, the start of the 118th congress. that is the first order of business. if they can t elect a speaker, then they can adjourn. that s really the only two options. but the majority of
chris, extraordinary things that we are watching a realtime, the disrobing of the house minority leader, the man who would be speaker, essentially crawling politically naked into what he thought was gonna be s finest hour. watruly an apt metaphor, and uncharted territory. and one of those things, election is run like this, you don t know what the outcome is you simply don t know what will happen next. it s not often that you get that that midnight aca but where john mccain vote where you give the down some. but they are few and far between for instance, joy, and thank you for passing this off, i appreciate it. for those, joining if you re looking at what that is, that s a motion to adjourn. kevin mccarthy the would-be speaker has lost 11 consecutive votes he set a new contemporary record, we re now back into the 1830s, which is the last of 11 votes happen, 1850s or is like 133. he s lost 11 votes, now there s a motion to adjourn, to take some time off from the, losing to do s
you are telling me, you dream that true. i did. it wasn t as close my dream. some very bad liberating takes us on the air tonight. and tomorrow at noon, when they resume, let s hope some serious business gets done. on that, note i wish you a very good night, well of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow. he set a new contemporary record, we re now back into the 1830s collapsed. of 11 votes happen, 1850s or is like 133. he s lost 11 votes, now there s a motion to adjourn, to take some time off from the, losing to do some more talk about this, colleagues to work in a deal so you won t keep losing. he s been losing by basically the same margins over and over. he can t afford to lose, for and he s been losing 20 over and over. one of the allies has made a motion to adjourn, as was the case 24 hours ago. if you watch innocent, thinking i feel like i was just here. i feel, you i do as well, because this is where
In his leadership because of his failure as speaker, attacking constitutional rights, silencing the voices of tennesseeans, refusing to take up seriously the issue of gun violence. and he wanted to shut that down. so you re saying he just did it because he was mainly worried that you are going to call a no confidence vote for him? he was. even today, before we adjourn session, once again i rose my hand and sought recognition to make the motion to vote no confidence and the speaker of the house of tennessee cameron sexton. he chose to ignore me and go to one of his members to call the adjournment vote. if he was confident in his leadership, he would take the vote. but what we are seeing is a speaker who is so fragile and afraid of being held accountable that even his own republican members are frustrated. we saw what happened on april six, and in the special session with the mothers whose children were involved in the shooting at their school, being dragged out of committee. the hou