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bitter conflict among house republicans. former minority leader kevin mccarthy is being opposed by landful of lawmakers who are refusing to support him. a number that increased by one on the last balloting for speaking. chad pergram has been following this all day minute by minute. he tells us where things stand tonight from a chaotic capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, as you say. the most chaos for the beginning of a congress in 100 years. it marked a foreboding start for a g.o.p. majority which promised big things in the midterms. the house voted all afternoon. kevin mccarthy lacks the votes to become speaker. mccarthy and his allies are determined to keep voting and wear down his opponents. are you going to stay in the race, leader mccarthy. yes. i m not going anywhere. look, i have the record for the longest speech ever on the floor. i don t have a problem getting a record for the most votes for speaker, too. there were only five g.o.p. members official ....
bret: yeah. jimmy by the way is jim jordan. congressman from ohio. juan, here is byron donaldsson from florida. he did change from mccarthy to jordan on the third ballot. take a listen. i do think kevin has the ability to get there. yeah. there is a lot of work that needs to be done. if you are going to take votes over and over again to wear people down. we should not be on the floor voting. that is my point. bret: what do you think, juan. speaker point of view speaker mccarthy has fewer votes at the end of the day than he did at the beginning of the day and mcdonald s is part of that story. kevin mccarthy s best argument i was listening today is that he is the strongest candidate out there. trey just picked up on this a little bit. as i think about that as your best argument to win the 218 necessary, i think to myself, ....