For the moment Republicans impulsively wrestled the House

Speaker ship away from Kevin McCarthy precisely three weeks ago today,

actually it happened during this program,

the act of replacing him has been like the worst most unserious but still very watchable

reality TV show ever. Backfighting, score settling, alliance making and breaking,

and today a series of secret votes settling, alliance making and breaking.

And today a series of secret votes kicking people off the island.

The original field of nine Republicans who wanted the job was whittled down this morning from

seven, then six, then five, then four, then straight to two, and then

one.

And now he's out.

Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer.

The House Whip got his rose today, but literally in the last few minutes, since we've been on the air he dropped out

of the running so on to plan whatever we're on e f g let's bring into our conversation

NBC news correspondent alley Vatale on Capitol Hill for us and former congressman from Florida

and MS NBC political analyst David Jolly.

Who is, what is happening Ali Vatale?

It's a new record at least Nicole.

With three hours his job of speaker designate three hours exactly he got it

around one o'clock and my understanding is he walked into the room behind me at around 4, dropped out and left with a smile, but nary a word to reporters.

So now they're back to the drawing board, kind of. It's a drawing board that we've already looked at today

specifically Kevin Hearn and Mike Johnson will once again vie for this position

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