hi there, everyone, here we go again. it s 4:00 in new york. at this hour, the house of representatives is completely and totally paralyzed. it is unable and incapable of swearing in members, forming committees, setting rules for itself, passing legislation even in the case of an emergency, couldn t do any of those things. it s a state of chaos and paralysis that is unprecedent ed in modern american history and it is all because the new republican house majority cannot agree on who should lead it in the 118th congress. house gop leader kevin mccarthy has moved into the speaker s office already, appears to be living by the motto, if at first you don t succeed try, try, try, try, try, try again. he has now lost five votes for the speakership, a sixth vote is underway. it s already clear from the math that mccarthy doesn t have the votes to become speaker of the house of representatives this time either. democrats for their part quietly made history yesterday by choosing the fir
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Turning in this direction given that i ve talked to a lot of my new yorker friends and wall street is kind of concerned by this governing by crisis. i do want to do a little bit of washington reporting. i m not on the same level as your real reporters. i m doing reporting from cocktail parties from last night and receptions. the best reporting there is. one of the good things about being in d.c. is you re so close to it, and you actually go to cocktail receptions and talk to members of congress. tell us everything. nicole, i m struck by a couple of things. one is this picks up on what the reporting that they just did, a couple members of congress poined out how dangerous this is, that right now if we had a national crisis the congress wouldn t be able to do anything, that this is actually this is actually really, really dangerous and we were talking about unprecedented. but it s unprecedented and dangerous, and it s probably not