live coverage. and aim jake tapper in washington. the united states still without a house speaker this hour and there is no sign that republicans are going to be able to settle on one any time soon. kevin mccarthy is going to come up short a fourth time. that s the vote we re watching right now. the hard-line opposition of about 20 rebels backing congressman byron donalds of florida this go-around. this vote is playing out as we re seeing quite an interesting split screen moment on the left side of your screen. you see senator senator minority leader mitch mcconnell at an event in kentucky with president biden there talking about the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was only passed because of democrats and republicans working together and now you see on the screen a place where bipartisanship is not happening, in fact, barely partisanship when it comes to republicans. cnn is tracking everything as it happens vote by vote. let s start with lauren fox. kevin mccarthy s a
Hill. Kevin mccarthys inability to satisfy his farright members is leading to a move by matt gaetz to take away the gavel. The only way that Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house at the end of this coming week as if democrats bail him out. I think they probably. Well bring it on. Lets start governing. If he is upset because he tried to push a shut down, then lets have that fight. President biden speaking a short time ago for the First Time Since the vote with a clear message for republicans in congress. Enough is enough is enough. This is not that complicated. The brinkmanship passed and. There shouldnt be another crisis. So while there is no shot down, there is a crisis coming on two fronts today. You have the covid era subsidies for childcare, they are relieving thousands of families without the money for daycare. Also ending the freeze on Student Loan Repayment payments that threatens to show people back into financial and security if they cant come up with that money. Theyre cover
Are there deals being cut or are people just saying along the lines of what we just heard from you, you re just standing in the way of progress here, you re just standing in the way of a conservative agenda, cut it out. well, you know, yesterday they said they had a group of eight candidates that potential candidates. they probably sprayed it out there in the first round. then they solidified on jim jordan who actively said he didn t want to be speaker and so had to go through a couple rounds of that then today they were on byron. tomorrow, who knows. maybe they ll put up gaetz but they ll continue to go down a list but anybody in their right mind would have to look at this situation and say, do i want to be the speaker? i mean, i would hope that sometime knowing my dear friend pete aguilar and hakeem jeffries, they would do that. i m a cleveland browns fan and hope springs eternal but it