0 relentless in the face of this gridlock happening in washington. the dow is up today. the reason for that, the longer this goes on, there s likely to be gridlock in congress the next two weeks and wall street likes gridlock because nothing changes. sandra: see you tomorrow, john. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: we ll see you tomorrow. i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: all right. breaking news. continuing coverage this afternoon of a cliff-hanger in the house of representatives. republicans battle over who will be the speaker in the majority that they will hold for the next two years. house republican leader kevin mccarthy failing falling short on the fifth ballot to become speaker. blocked by another challenger from his own party. byron donalds of florida. he joined john sandra last hour after he also blocked mccarthy in the fourth vote. watch this. what we want to see is that leadership actually reflects where the american
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