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the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow. still don t know why 9 am wasn t a possibility, more now with day three of trying to get speaker, that s fine. we re gonna go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, of course, republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has been enduring a c series of stinging defeats. now losing a total of six rounds of voting. in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight, well there s no deal yet, the emphasis on yet, there s a lot of progress that has been made in talks with some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. it s possibly now paved the way for him to become the speaker. of course, it seems to be far from certain, knowing that there seems to be at least 20 who have not budged in many a vote at this point. his most strident opponents are vowing again tonight, they are going to block his bid. i want to go now to cnn s melanie zanona who s on capitol ....
Ambition and a number of members who just can t stand and don t trust him. and i don t know how that battle is gonna play out. is this the job he thinks he wants still? i m not gonna put my mind in his mind and think about it, but this does not bode well for what is ahead. yeah. he s got a lot of work to do, congress in general, and remember, speaker, former speaker pelosi, actually was tweeting tonight about the work to be done. and she called out republicans on this speaker vote. and all who serve in the house chair responsibility to bring dignity to this body, sadly, republicans cavalier attitude in electing a speaker is frivolous, disrespectful and unworthy of this institution. we must open the house and proceed with the peoples work. jonathan, when you think about the people s work, there s a lot of work for whoever is going to be the speaker to herd cats. i was talking to one member tonight, because of kevin ....