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>> the total number of vote cast is 432. the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [applause] the honoring kevin mccarthy has received 200. [applause]

For investigating democrats, including an elected democrats like hunter biden. donald trump re-endorsed kevin mccarthy before todays voting in the house and the result of donald trumps reinforcement of kevin mccarthy meant that kevin mccarthy lost even more votes today. one mccarthy supporter today switched from voting for mccarthy to voting present, to meeting kevin mccarthy has now lost the support in each round of voting today of 21 republicans. yesterday, the high was 20, today 21. opposing ...

Started to talk about what you would demand from republicans in exchange for votes to help them elect a speaker? >> short answer is no. all we are asking is house republicans to get along with each other. >> reporter: now short of a mediation session of some kind, i dont know that theres much democrats can do to encourage the republican factions to get along better with each other. but there has been a lot of side chatter on the floor between democratic members and republican members. the kinds ...

Would not want to recognize the devastation of january 6th, who are perfectly happy there is no mention of january 6th on the tour. so we are seeing an extra in a contrast between our caucus who now nine times has voted 212 unified votes for the most talented leader in our caucus, hakeem jeffries versus the other side which has a bunch of folks that are just malcontents, keep choosing people that are not prepared to lead and of course mr. mccarthy is not prepared to lead . >> do you care if mcca...

True leader. im casting my vote for kevin hern and i hope you will as well. i yield. >> the reading clerk will call the roll . >> all right. so there we have it. the tenth vote for speaker of the house of representatives has begun. and there you hear adams. theres the tell itll sign that the roll call has begun. and we i have to say expect 10th verse same as the first, that we expect its going to be 212 votes for the democratic leader hakeem jeffries and 201 votes for the republican leader kevin

Such as paying for government, paying for the military, raising the debt ceiling, et cetera, et cetera, it would be -- the congress would be forced into a situation where democrats, 212 of them, would go to sign this discharge petition. six responsible republicans presumably including yourself would join them, and then there would be a vote on this must pass legislation. am i get being that right? >> yes. thats one of many options. theres the 290 rule. the consensus calendar. there is a number o...

Speaker, kevin mccarthy, mark my words: this party will come together to unleash american energy, make the trump tax cuts permanent. rein in run away government spending and fight for a balanced budget. so i stand before you today with unqualified support to nominate my friend, the next speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. [applause] [cheers] >> the democratic side will now nominate hakeem jeffries as they have each time and each time they have managed to get 212 votes. all democrats voting for...

To 212 and 213 and you are that close, boy, i tell you to have that attitude when you have got everybody but five people in your conference or six people who want to do something, that is a, that is quite a thing. i would think some pressure brought to bear. >> he is not changing. and the question that he had -- >> let me just ask, because manu had a chance to speak to mccarthy, and what did he say to you? >> defiant. i asked him why so hard to get fewer than 20 opponents to vote towards you, an...

He has to get to 213. the democrats have 212. then can he negotiate with the never-kevins to vote present or go on vacation, or go out of town. this is incredibly complicated. they keep saying theyre making progress. they keep saying theyre cut ago deal, but the speaker of the house is the guy who runs the place. have they finally gotten it right? theyve been wrong every time. kevin mccarthy is a conservative lawmakers, so these other conservatives, why do they hate him so much? >> im not sure w...

Problem. you know, if you need people to vote present in order to reduce the number of votes he needs but you have to get enough so that you beat jeffries, who has 212, you know, unless you get democrats to come over, i dont know how they make all this -- i mean, i was no math major, so i leave it up to you guys -- >> that math doesnt work. >> your computers and -- but i mean, do you see how this -- if that is the case, how does this end? i dont -- >> again, my solution, lock the doors. right? i...