Welcome to this special edition of the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and you are watching

CNN special coverage of the growing chaos in the U.S. House of Representatives, House

members currently voting for Speaker. For the third time today, the sixth time this

week, this has not happened since 2000, I'm sorry, since 1923, 100 years ago, 1923, rebellious

House Republicans, as was the case a hundred years ago, are denying the man who thought

he would be Speaker in this case, Kevin McCarthy, the necessary votes to win the Speaker's

gaffled, meaning that right now the House is completely paralyzed. We do not have a speaker,

we do not have official members of Congress, we do not have committees, we do not have rules,

and the math is frankly only getting worse for Kevin McCarthy, as the process drags out

the total number of Republicans not voting for him is going up. The total number of Republicans

voting for him is going down. Let's go straight to CNN chief congressional correspondent,

Manuraju, who has been live on Capitol Hill for us all day, we're hearing that each side

of this Republican against Republican standoff might appoint four members to negotiate some

sort of way forward. Yeah, that's what according to sources tell us that that is what is under

discussion right now. To come up with some sort of group, a negotiating group, to break

this standoff that is paralyzing the House and preventing the 118th Congress from moving

forward. The discussion for people on the side of McCarthy, very close to Kevin McCarthy,

representing his interests, then for and also interests of other members, other parts

of the Republican conference, and then for people who are part of this 20 group block

of members who are denying Kevin McCarthy the path to the speakership. Have them sit down

in the room, negotiate, horse trade, see what agreement that they can be reached or at

least get in some sort of proposal on the table in writing and present that to the rest

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