Eli Crane Voting 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...

With a one or two vote margin. nancy pelosi didnt bring bills to the floor unless she had a scroti. now here you have to vote for a speaker so this was not a question about whether or not kevin mccarthy wanted to go tonight or whenever, this vote was probably going to happen at some point because you have to keep voting until you get a speaker. nancy pelosi always knew whether you like her politics or not exactly how many votes she had and she rarely, if ever, lost. but this is kind of the calli...

Speaker first. >> yeah. and im sure if chad pergra.m. is still with us, eric is he with us? i want to switch back to him. chad give us an idea theres some lobbying going on on the floor and theres a pressure on both lauren boebert and matt gaetz. give us an idea of how this revote goes where people can actually change their votes. can they do that before they move on to the 15th round chad or do they have a chance to do it right now? >> yeah, this vote is technically still open. they have gone t...

Ccarthy, regardless of what matt gates does right now. we are looking for matt gates and good to change their vote. you believe hes going to vote in favor of kevin mccarthy. >> thats right. you are right. up at stays the same as the 14 th ballot, this is not if we had the exact same group of people voting, that is always the question what the magic number is. if it was the same as the last ballot, those three would mean kevin mccarthy is the next speaker of the house. this will finish one day af...

>> so it does in fact appear the nays have it chad and im wondering when they start voting again, do they go over this? do they renominate kevin mccarthy and hakeem jeffries all over again? >> absolutely so susan cole here is going to go through all the names then cheryl johnson will read the totals and it all starts all over again. this is like the matrix revolutions or something, it starts all over again here. they will have nominating speeches, bruce westerman will nominate kevin mccarthy. >>...

Going to see a lot of these stills about this moment. well see what hes doing right there, whether hes changing -- chad, what is he doing will? is he doing the math up on the top or is he changing a vote? >> so right now, right now what happens is, they are voting on the motion to adjourn. so if you get underneath where the clock has run out, this is kind of like soccer they keep the time on the field were into booking an injury time right now, extra time as they say. so if youre going to vote o...

>> comer? mccarthy. >> connolly? >> jeffries. >> correa? jeffries. >> costa. >> jeffries. >> courtney. >> jeffries. >> crane. >> present. [applause] >> crawford. >> mccarthy. >> mccarthy. >> a lets clarify a few things but yet just heard eli crane voting present at least we have laura boebert who maintain her volpi to be of any bench you changed his vote from jordan to present and now you have eli crane who changed his vote. this bodes very well for kevin m