where at sir chrysler now to john hanjin, who's at her capitol hill. so john, we any nearer to a breakthrough? not at all, not even a little bit. the votes have not changed it over the course of the day. we have 20201 votes for kevin mccarthy. and at the moment it's 200. in the 10th round, the democrat gets 212. that's how keen jeffries but that's not enough to cross over to the majority. and then there are a couple of minor republican candidates. we're getting 20 votes. there's one member who's voting present, which is a kind of protest vote. this is either the definition of insanity doing the same thing and expecting a different result, or perhaps eventually an example of how practice makes perfect. but so far what we have seen today has been all deja vu after 3 days and 10 votes each of them with a humiliating result for kevin mccarthy who has dreamt of this moment for years. so as the votes go forward tonight, it looks like mccarthy would probably like to call a pause in the voting because it just proves one humiliation after the other. but they mig

but let's cross live now to john hanjin, who's at capitol hill. so john, are we any near to a break through here? it doesn't look like this is both historic and historically dysfunctional in 5 votes. just over the course of today. kevin mccarthy has not gained a single vote at block of 20 voters plus one voting present has remained unchanged. that the only thing that changes is who they vote for. taking advantage of the fact that you don't have to be a member of congress to be speaker, one member of that block proposed that donald trump become this house speaker. he's not likely to get a lot of votes, but of the people who are not kevin mccarthy and are republicans. the votes have remained 20 so that throughout the course of this day and it is held steady, he hasn't gained a single vote despite the fact that he's given a number of concessions. couple days ago, mccarthy agreed that he would allow only 5 boats to call to call the speaker to call a vote to remove the speaker overnight. he change that to one at the request of that block. nevertheless,

how can i was on hanjin has been watching developments on capitol hill at john. extraordinary political saga. what's the latest? what's been a long and disappointing 2 days for kevin mccarthy and a vast majority of republicans who support him. 2 days, 6 boats, something it hasn't happened. ready for a 100 years there was a last time it took for more than one balance to choose the speaker. so they took a break for 3 hours to night came back, had not made significant progress in simply adjourned for the night until noon to morrow. mccarthy has told reporters that he expects to have more votes tomorrow, but of course. ready he's hope for that each of the past 2 days. so right now what we have is an impasse with our small block of 20 people, mostly from the freedom caucus voting for another. how speaker and we've got one person who's voting present, and that simply made use effectively, not boating at all. so mccarthy hopes to have more votes tomorrow, but the longer this drags out the more pressure there will be on him to step down for other people to possibly put their names in. but right

how can i take those on hanjin joins us law, not from capitol hill at john? has there been any progress at all on this extraordinary political soccer? well, there has been some progress. unfortunately for kevin mccarthy, it has been negative progress yesterday. he had 19 votes against him. then by the end of the day was 20 now it's $21.00. and he is significantly, far from the $218.00 votes. he needs to become elected speaker. the republican party is in disarray right now. they want to govern, but they can't get out of their own way enough in order to take the 1st step. so now what they've done is they've taken a 3 hour break. we're about one hour into that break and the 2 sides are getting together. this block of freedom caucus republicans are sending representatives. and so is the mccarthy camera they're trying to come up with some kind of agreement. but what that is is hard to say what that could be. mccarthy is given in concessions on nearly everything they wanted and it seems that the thing they want most is mccarthy's head. they want to block him from b