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Could be, if the dam broke, as many as 10 to 12 flips in the course to have this vote. that does look like where were headed. i said to watch chip roy. where he falls in the alphabet, hes a lagging indicator, but he was one of the leading negotiators with mccarthy and his allies. i do think given everything else we have seen, we should expect to see -- that was rosendale. we should probably expect to see roy go with mccarthy and his allies. and i risk being sent to msnbc jail for this, but i thi...

Map and she just got elected. what this means is that 12, there are 12 previous mccarthy opponents, folks who had been voting against mccarthy who have cast votes. of those 12, 6 of them have switched to kevin mccarthy. paul gosar from arizona did not record a vote when his name was called. what will happen is when they get to the end of the roll call, the folks will come back around. were still waiting to hear on gosar. 12 have voted. 6 have continued to vote against mccarthy. if theres a subse...

You would have to go through a red primary there. so whatever trump says to him, maybe he offers to help him out or endorse him. we dont know, but that will come into play potentially and could be a key into unlocking some of these votes. one other thing i want to go back to about the absences, jake, we need to point out the personal toll this is taking on some of the numbers. they have gone to great lengths to help mccarthy lock down the speakership. hes coming back just to be here for this vot...

It those three are absent, republicans have 219. democrats have 212 in the chamber. that adds up to 431. the magic number there would be 216. meaning that with those three absences in any scent vote, mccar thi now can only afford to have three defections. so while hes made significant progress here, and well see if he continues to make progress with the rest of the names called, keep in mind as you look at this list, to win today with who is in the chamber, he can only have three defections. you...

Are leaving town so mccarthy told me that on the way in theyll have absences today so it will still extend out for some time. they still have work to do despite the pickup, still concern, still some opponents and not enough for 218 but hes getting closer, anderson. >> manu, well check back in with you. david, you talked about yesterday the grinding -- you can hear the wheels turning. >> its, you know, like the old p pestle. youre grinding it down. no one would go home. wed stay here and keep vot...

Democratic congressman david trone having come back to the house after his medical procedure this morning it might be 217? >> yeah. so just view it as a fraction, so for every two numbers that come off the denominator, 435, one comes off the numerator of 218. if 434 voting, thats how many we have here, the number is still 218. if that goes down by one it goes to 217, drops another two, through present votes or absences, goes to 216. keep in mind, we have two members on the republican side that w...

0 good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. its january 6th. the anniversary of an insurrection that almost destroyed our democracy. today the white house and the nation commemorate the civilian and law enforcement heroes and the victims of that terrible day, even as the house chamber is no longer a literal battleground, it is now torn apart by political combat. a divide among republican factions creating a new crisis of government. on this date in 2021, lawmakers were wearing gas masks and ta...

Theyre doing this, theyll call your name at the end. you might miss the vote because this is so unpredictable. people wont be here hour after hour after hour. and thats the tear or the representative were getting in to. thats why this could get very dangerous for somebody besides kevin mccarthy or a democrat like hakeem jeffries because there will be attrition. one of the first things i said this morning, watch to see if kevin mccarthy starts to get some votes and also watch later today if there...

Be able to show support in terms of vote totals today. he does seem to be getting breathing room. some of the members in the group of 20, never kevin folks, have been telling reporters they think its progress. its not just coming from mccarthys camp. its coming from that group as well. one of the new members said that he thought there was progress. chip roy, who has been negotiating on some of the more meaty procedual issues says he thinks theres progress. boebert said theres no circumstance unt...

More he gives away, david, mort and more likely that anyone can rule this congress. >> you make completely opposite argument. if you give in, right, and give into the folks completely, right, then they win. if kevin goes away, then the inmates are running the asylum completely. >> wait a second. where we started -- i was going to say, where we started several hours ago with my colleague saying the 20, theyve already won. the fact that we are still here on round 11, 12, were talking about going i...