Thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour.

They say the definition of insanity

is doing the same thing over and over

and expecting a different result.

And that appears to be exactly where we are right now

in the middle of insanity.

Just about an hour ago, the House of Representatives

adjourned for the third day without selecting

a speaker of the house.

Today the lower chamber has already held five votes

for speaker and Congressman Kevin McCarthy

failed to cinch the nomination on all five of those votes,

bringing the total number of times he has failed

to win the speaker's gavel up to 11.

That is the most failed elections for speaker

in any Congress in over 100 years.

So passing the nine attempts it took to elect a speaker

all the way back in the year 1923.

Throughout those failed votes, Kevin McCarthy

has not managed to pick up one single new supporter.

Now his Republican antagonists have also failed

to pick up any new support though they have introduced

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