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Honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [cheers and applause] the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 2. the honorable andy biggs of the state of arizona has received 2. no member elect, having received a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. >> we now adjourn until monday on monday lfrjts the gentleman repeat his motion? >> i move the house do now

For mccarthy and 212 for hakeem jeffries. and then the six right here who voted for jordan. one reason this has been delayed tonight is there are two other republicans who were not present in the chamber today. west hunt from texas and kim buck from colorado. they brought mccarthy supporters. theyre both coming back to washington. both expected to be there voting for mccarthy. assuming that does happen, it brings mccarthy to 216 votes. but then assuming that all the democrats are still there and...

Now, again, as i said, each vote is a little bit different. so maybe you have some people who thought this was all going to be wrapped up. theyre already on a plane, theyre driving somewhere and it depends which side theyre on. okay. so you could trigger that roll call vote. this is where we get into some very dangerous turf potentially for kevin mccarthy. why? because it needs an outright majority of the house of members casting ballots for somebody by last name and hakeem jeffries on every sin...

>> well, look -- and the democrats, we have a tough job. because we have got to do two things. one thing is we have to refute and debunk all of the lies, the disinformation, the propaganda, the conspiracy theories, the scandals do your du jour and -- we have to be a truth squad for america. but more importantly, we have to keep america moving forward. we have got to stay on track in terms of investment in infrastructure, in lowering health care and prescription drug costs. we have got to be meet...

Kept mccarthy up the state of california has received -- kevin mccarthy has received 216. hakeem jeffries has received 212

First and then vote when they call the second time. so we -- the suspense is building here because were on a knifes edge depending on how many people are in that room. and we havent heard any democrats who have missed votes as of yet. and, remember, theyve almost hit 212 every time, every ballot, they missed it once when the member from maryland had surgery. >> laura: were relying on airlines to get people back into town 45 minutes before theyre supposed to vote. it doesnt get any closer than th...

Mathematically has a very important -- >> if he voted on the previous ballot, kevin mccarthy is gonna be voted speaker on this ballot. on the last round, kevin mccarthy had 216 votes that were 212 votes for hakeem jeffries, there were two votes that were present and there were four votes for other candidate. now, what this means, there are 434 members in attendance tonight. okay? the two who voted present on the last ballot means that they only counted 432 votes. they dont count the present vote...

Received 212. applause from the state of ohio, two. the honourable andy biggs of the state of arizona has received two. no member elect, having received a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. studio: so hearing confirmation that the speaker has not been elected. lets now speak to david willis, our north america

Go home and refresh and regroup. but if they feel like they have the vote they should take it. but, again, with patrick mchenry coming up and doing the motion to adjourn i think they want to adjourn and go home and come back monday and have a house speaker. >> you can see how divided, 216 for kevin mccarthy and 212 for hakeem jeffries and save for one of the votes hakeem jeffries got 212 votes. it seems like the democrats are together and going forward for kevin mccarthy to get things done hes g...

Sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you -- >> laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have matt gaetz and kevin mccarthy speaking on the floor. let its dip in well come back to you momentarily. hold on. >> >> apparently w...