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his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to break ....
making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we ve seen in this chamber is tough. it s tough to watch. it s tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that s why it s important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? madam speaker, i would like to rise to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house. the gentlewoman is recognized. i ve known byron for roughly about four years now. and being that he s from the state of florida i can tell you that i ve come to know him on both the campaign trail and personally. but i want to clarify somethin ....
than the country. . i appreciate your time. dateline white house picks up with nicole right now. it s 4:00 in new york and yes, it s groundhog day, the crisis in the house of representatives and the united states of america is in its third day. there still no speaker of the house of representatives which means there are no members of the house of representatives. that despite and evening of negations. kevin mccarthy has lost eight votes to be speaker and is on track right now to lose the ninth vote. that s despite making a series of unbelievable concessions, things that were off the table sunday night and into monday, to the holdouts in his car gets caucus, a major allowance to the hard right republicans, he said he would lower the number from 5 to 1. he said he previously not accept that. congress and matt gaetz, he nominated donald trump for the speakership and described the power to remove the speaker as anyone, anywhere, anytime, raising questions about whether ....
Some of the people who had been voting for donalds are now switching to hern. but i just want to say we have heard that there is a deal under way and maybe tomorrow. we heard there was a deal this morning. i mean, just color me skeptical about this. we re now on our tenth ballot. the votes are not changing. not one person has moved to kevin mccarthy. and let s assume for a moment there is something going on behind the scenes and they put these rules into writing. is the math there? we are still talking about kevin mccarthy needs to hold everyone but four votes is the math there. it doesn t seem like it s there. we are curious what s happening behind closed doors. it really depends on who you re talking to because marjorie taylor greene is coming out, she s saying that there is movement happening behind closed doors, she believes there s some shifting going on. ....
So we ve got some breaking news. kevin mccarthy loses on the tenth ballot to be speaker. he has now and again, it s not over until it s gavelled in. so far in this tenth count, he has lost six republicans and that is going to keep him from becoming speaker on this tenth ballot. yes. i m going to pick up word that charlie said, anarchy. we ve had anarchists in american history. we ve never really had them in congress before. but i do also pick up on nick s point. the constitution says almost nothing about how the speichers is elected. it says the house will elect the speaker. all of these rules have grown up over 150, 175, 200 years. and the rules themselves are flawed. the glues to me about this, and this is contrarian, this is our testimony working. in 1856, there were 119 ballots. in 1849, it went on for 19 days. these all have precedents in ....