jordan. what is he going to negotiate away that makes him speakership have any power to get the up with 5 votes? that s if question. martha: the one place there could be movement is basically this motion to vacate the chair. it was 50%. you had to have a majority saying they don t want that done anything. they gotta down to five people. people that saying they weren t going to vote for you. if he gives away more than that, he goes down to the one that they want, he could be speaker for 4 1/2 minutes. yeah. somebody says you don t like this. you re gone. that s it. that s untenable. it s not leadership. i don t think we re going to 133 ballots as we did in 1856 did they cover that hahn cable news? i don t think so. there wasn t this growing
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