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>> theyre requested, those favoring a vote by yays and yeas nays are ordered. >> laura: theyre waiting, lets go back to chad pergram. it appears theyre going to continue chad. >> the problem is kevin mccarthy made significant progress today. he doesnt have the votes. he is one vote short. so in this circumstance you can do one of two things. you can go immediately to a 15th vote or you have to then go to an adjournment. you can do one of two things. so right now what theyre doing is they are mov...

Life to winning the speakership of the house of representatives. but he needed either one more yea vote or one more present vote. and the two people voting present congress people boebert and gaetz, and the four people voting against him for candidate congress people biggs and good and rosendale would not play ball. so right now the lieutenant for mccarthy, congressman patrick mchenry of north carolina, whos done so much to wrangle votes for mccarthy has made a motion to adjourn congress until m...

Republican congressman kevin mccarthy has lost a 14th ballot. there will be a 15th ballot but not until monday. joining us now fresh off of voting against adjournment congressman jim hines of connecticut. congressman hunt, were watching right now on the floor kevin mccarthy is raising his hand. hold on, somethings going on. im sorry, congressman hines. were going to go back to the floor of the house and try to figure out whats going on. because mccarthy and gaetz came to some sort of -- and now ...

Long do we have time-wise before the next vote actually begins. >> it should happen automatically as soon as they close this vote, unless theres another motion to adjourn. that would be the only other thing in order right now. whats interesting here the first night that they had that adjournment, cheryl johnson whos the democratic clerk running the house of representatives right now because its unclear who the speaker is going to be, show called that vote right at 15 minutes, exactly at 15 minut...

Thats 428. then four members voting for somebody else by name, this is the algebra thats 432, 432 means you need 217. kevin mccarthy is one vote shy if our tally is correct here, 216 and that appears to be the case on the house floor because they seem to know that. so if he can get matt gaetz to vote for mccarthy by name, that would give him 217. the same with lauren boebert. note that they are sitting close together. now what might happen is this he could hold this vote open as long as they wan...

Embarrassing and a failure of leadership and, you know, an example of treachery. and yes, the stars of it were the people who are most closely associated with the events of last january 6th. >> yeah. >> mm-hmm. >> and so theres nothing about this that should make people feel good. kevin mccarthy, obviously, feels good because hes realized his lifelong ambition. but at what cost? >> you will see the film, its going to be called knives out. and we will be subjected to it for the next two years. lo...

>> you need the gavel here. we saw chaos the first time -- but it does look, like at the very last minute there, one of those republican nose switched over to yes. and gave them the votes -- >> take a look at whats going on on the screen. you have gaetz and mccarthy. mccarthy had his hand -- something sapling here. >> almost a smile. >> theres something occurring. >> mccarthy has a red card in his hand. >> is he changing? do they think theyve got gaetz >> hes voting no on the adjournment. >> the...

Fourth republican no vote on the adjournment. can you help us understand, obviously, youre not part of the negotiations. but what is it that kevin mccarthy has given that to his colleagues over the last couple of days to get their yes votes? so we have an understanding that when and if, potentially, he gets the votes, what are we in for -- or should i say, what are you in? four >> to compare the last four years. we had order, good governance, great leadership under speaker pelosi and the house d...

Floor, then you had that motion around adjournment. and the cattle call that went forward and then the coming hours and days, we will see jus what now speaker mccarthy gave up to get that 216 vote. people see what is said that rules package. as chat pension, the republican from texas has said that he is not on board with that rules package. theyre going to have a fight o their hands and that is the whole house beer that is not just republicans in power. we proceed for kind of negotiations go on ...

That began way back on tuesday. along the way, we were treated to an important at times chaotic civics lesson including near fisticuffs live and on camera. friday the fourth day of voefting we saw 15 holdouts switch their allegiance during the 12th and 13th rounds of balloting, and then after an adjournment mccarthy thought he had the needed votes and at 11:00 came to a 14th vote yet one vote shy of a majority. for the first time all week he couldnt hide being visibly angry. lauren boebert and m...