55th Representative News Today

>> david scott. >> effries. >> so heres the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime lets bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. >> thats right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because...

And there were other concessions that he did give. the question is, what does the weekend show? i dont think, because all of these folks were starting to talk today, including boebert and gaetz on hannity earlier, about the success that theyve had of changing the institution. so at one vote away from the speakership, its hard to imagine that someone else steps in and gets more votes than kevin mccarthy. hes cobbled together and fought through 14 ballots and now its going to be 15 to try to be th...