and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don t know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they were pretty close to calling the vote in adjourning. they have the singular verse of people there right now. here is what will happen later tonight if they impacted elect kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house, there will be a wall and they will bring an escort committee and they will escort him into the chamber will be very ceremonial, much like bringing in the president of th united states into t
present, you had bogert and gai speed you have the total universe of the house. dallas in the virginia passed away so the last vote, boebert and gait spirit and it makes at for hundred 17 is the magic number. five voting present gets you to for hundred 29, so half up that plus one is 215. 215 will be the magic number right now if everything stays the same. it is fascinating. i want to bring in the former congressman jason chave at spea jason, you ve got me fascinated this well. we saw during the break all the lobbying that was going on and the freshman tactics we saw going on in kevin mccarthy talking with matt gaetz up beside dan crenshaw reaching over the bench and talking to matt gaetz that we saw sheila jackson lee talk at the back gate s. we were told for a while that matt gaetz was expected to
at the personalities behind these on the democratic side. we are seeing a lot of hostilit and beer seen some friendship ben dan crenshaw, the army veteran lost one eye wearing a patch. we have four to 35 people that represent america, from every walk had and every type of style . it is really exciting. here we are late friday night. would you rather watch a movie? no. this is a movie. they are talking policy. this a lot of discussion about policy. we are not looking at the smoke-filled chambers. i think it is healthy.