outfront next, breaking news. the house about to reconvene as mccarthy s bid for speaker looks shakier than ever. six humiliating rounds of votes and we could be looking at a seventh shortly. we have the very latest from capitol hill. plus, who are those 20 republicans waging this war against kevin mccarthy? we re going to give you a closer look. new details tonight on buffalo bills star damar hamlin s condition. for one former nfl player, hamlin s injury brought back members. he was hit in the chest with a puck, collapsed on the ice, carried out on a stretcher. and the former nhl star is it my guest tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight the breaking news. the house is about to gavel back in as open warfare breaks out in the gop. congressman matt gaetz tells cnn he s a, quote, desperate guys whose share is dropping with every subsequent vote. kevin mccarthy s allies are working furiously behind the scenes trying to search for any options as o
where he has to negotiate with the other chamber, the senatet or the democrats. i mean, it s going to be like this but so much worse every single time anything of substance comes before the house of representatives. and, yeah, mccarthy had to learn that, he did learn that. they thought they had a deal. they trusted people who can t be trusted. took the words right out of my mouth. the irony where they claim they can t trust kevin mccarthy. mccarthy people thought they had this figured out. and who did they think was going to vote they re gaveling back in so let s listen in. but i would love to know did they give names of who they thought were going to vote? some of them believed rosendale would go along with the present. would vote present. if he didn t he gave an angry andy biggs yell, i think. the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432 of which the
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
unknown. will they keep voting throughout the night? does mccarthy drop out? does a new speaker emerge? and we are living this in realtime and watching these developments in washington. they are behind closed doors right now. in just a few minutes going to be gaveling back in session. so we re going to be much more on that in just a moment. i do want to update you though first on another story that all of us and you have been following. new details tonight about the condition of the buffalo bills safety damar hamlin. so, what we understand right now is that he has been showing signs of improvement but still remains in critical condition. all of this after his heart stopped on the field after that hit during monday night s game against the bengals. president biden says he spoke at length with the family, offered few details though about those conversations. brian young is outfront with the latest tonight from cincinnati. reporter: outside a hospital in cincinnati, balloons, candles
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