we now have 19 people to talk to. after we come out of what i suspect will be a conference break, i think that number will shrink, not grow. so you think after this vote is fully tallied, are they going to go to a third vote or do some arm wrestling behind the scenes? my hope is they take a break. if they don t do this, they go to a third. it remains 19, that will signal that you have to take the break and have the discussion. you have to give the 19 a chance to sit in a room with the basically 200 and have a discussion. the fact is that everyone on both sides of this issue agrees that we need to elect a republican speaker and that speaker has to bring us together with a narrow, narrow majority to do the work that the american people hired us to do. that last part is important. we have to find somebody that
0 john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. i m martha maccallum live in our nation s capitol covering this drama that we did expect and now unfolding in a fascinating way on the house floor. the new republican majority there is in a historic battle as a handful try to block kevin mccarthy from the speaker s gavel which he has wanted a long time and worked very hard to get in the mid-terms. bret baier is standing by on set with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot fo
america is getting robbed. the inspector general says the justice department recently held a conference in washington where the department spent $4,200 on muffins, 250 muffins, that comes out to 16 bucks a muffin. the report says the department spent $65 per person at another event, a conference break of cracker jacques, popcorn and candy bars costing another 32 bucks per person. needless to say the inspector general calls the costs quote extravagant and wasteful and well over the department s limit. you know you can go to dunkin donuts and get them all, it s not just doughnuts any more, you can get a bunch of muffins real cheap down the road. it doesn t have to be 16 bucks a muffin, promise you. the federal emergency management agency dusting off plans to how to respond if big parts after satellite should fall on the united states later this week. great. nasa now says it could happen as early as friday, but the big