Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening to you, Lawrence.

Good evening, Alex. I have a funny feeling. Tomorrow will be very much like today. We'll

see how far we get, whether we have a speaker or not, but we're going to see a lot of the

same stuff tomorrow. I think the official term is Groundhog Day Congress.

Well, there's that. We will see. Kevin McCarthy might, he might be on his way to

breaking the 100 year old record of number of votes. I think that I think nine is the most

they have for this. He's already broken the record for most humiliated person that's seeking

the Speaker's Gavill in modern American political history. So we'll see what other records he

can shatter in the next 24 hours. Thank you, Alex. Have a good show.

Well, at this very moment, Kevin McCarthy is negotiating with terrorists.

Legislative terrorists. That's what former Republican House Speaker John Boehner called

destructionist Republicans in the House of Representatives when he was speaker. He was referring

then to Republican Congressman Jim Jordan when he called him a terrorist, a legislative terrorist.

But the passage of time, the Republican House has become much more extreme than it was in

Speaker Boehner's day. And so Jim Jordan has drifted away from what is the current wild edge

of the Republican Party and has remained aligned for now anyway with Kevin McCarthy's desperately

struggling, struggling campaign to become the next Speaker of the House. With the promise that

with Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, Jim Jordan will be allowed as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee

unloaded resources for investigating Democrats, including unelected Democrats like Hunter Biden.

Donald Trump re-endores Kevin McCarthy before today's voting in the House and the result of

Donald Trump's re-endoresment of Kevin McCarthy meant that Kevin McCarthy lost even more votes today.

One McCarthy supporter today switched from voting for McCarthy to voting present,

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