Six votes. Two days. No speaker.
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, Jake Tapper. Joining me, we do not know at this moment whether the house is about to recondene after Republicans for a second day tried and failed three more times to make Kevin McCarthy speaker. |
| 0:22.0 | Short time later they adjourned for it turned out to be a closed door talks between the would be speaker and his supporters and opponents. But so far nothing he's been able to say or do nothing has managed to sway any of the 20 GOP holdouts for hardcore opponents among them. |
| 0:39.0 | We could be about to learn whether in fact there will even be another vote tonight. I want to go straight to see his monorasia with new reporting at the Capitol Mono. What are you hearing? |
| 0:47.0 | Well, actually in a better minutes the House will actually try to vote to adjourn for the night. That is the preferred course of Republican leader Kevin McCarthy after talks behind closed doors with opponents of his as well as some of his allies. He believes they are making progress. |
| 1:00.0 | He wants those talks to continue because the vote would happen tonight. He would almost certainly fail once again to get the 218 votes to be elected speaker. |
| 1:08.0 | So they need to actually have an vote of a majority vote of the House 218 votes are needed to adjourn Democrats are expected to vote against it. They want another vote to let McCarthy twist in the win. |
| 1:20.0 | Some conservatives will look to see whether or not they decide to oppose it. But I'm told that the expectation among top Republicans that that adjournment resolution will pass tonight and they will return tomorrow. |
| 1:31.0 | Now I just caught up with Kevin McCarthy just moments ago and he indicated that the deal is not yet within reach but progress is being made. |
| 1:41.0 | I think it's probably best let people work through some more. I don't think vote tonight doesn't occur. |
| 1:53.0 | Do you have a deal with those guys right now? |
| 1:57.0 | I don't know. I don't think voting tonight is productive. I think that people work a little more. |
| 2:07.0 | So in a positive sign from McCarthy some of those opponents came out sounding positive including Scott Perry of Pennsylvania sounded that he said that their talks have been productive as well as Congressman Chip Roy. |
| 2:18.0 | They had been asking for some more power some more sway over the speakership and some of them had been making ass such as to encourage McCarthy's super PAC to stay out of certain Republican primaries. |
| 2:29.0 | They did the super PAC did make an enreaching agreement to do just that. That may have won over some but still his path very narrow. |
| 2:36.0 | There are at least four Republicans who are almost certainly going to vote against them Bob Good and he bicks lower and bobered among them saying that they absolutely will not vote for Kevin McCarthy including Matt Gates. |
| 2:48.0 | So he can only look forward to lose four votes Republican votes one more says they will absolutely not vote for him. |
| 2:55.0 | McCarthy cannot get there which is why these talks so critical expected to continue through the course of the tonight until tomorrow the House reconvenes at that time. |
| 3:03.0 | No, I mean he'd already given up an awful lot just to get the votes that he's gotten thus far how much more is there that he can give up on? |
| 3:12.0 | I mean the anger of the super PAC thing obviously is based on the money he poured into candidates that the far right believe you know are angry that he was supporting Jim primaries. |
| 3:24.0 | Well that's the big question how much more does he give one of the things that they had asked for is to allow one individual to call for a vote to oust a sitting speaker Kevin McCarthy has agreed to come down to five individuals that is down from the conference rules that are required about half of the members to call for such a vote. |
| 3:41.0 | That is one area that they're pushing for also they want some key committee assignments including on the powerful House rules committee which sets the parameters for floor debate over legislation. |
| 3:51.0 | Those are some key issues that they have been negotiating and it sounds like McCarthy is moving in that direction but the concern for him is that if he moves too far in that direction he could lose some support from some more of the moderate members who do not want them to give in too much to the right wing of the conference. |
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