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If the number of total members are fewer. >> right. >> he needs a lower threshold. >> ogles. >> ogles too. >> thats 14 -- >> now there are six. >> so the 20 has switched to 7. >> theoretically. kevin mccarthy for the first time since this process began might actually get more votes than the democratic leader, hakeem jeffries, who has been at 212 but dont know what democrats are not here right now. >> that could be a critical number also. i keep -- ive been asking sources throughout this process ...

216. so what that would look like is 216 mccarthy votes, and 212 jeffries votes. three of these six still voting for jordan or whoever else, and then three of them voting present. if you did that, you wouldnt actually need to pick up an affirmative vote from any of these six holdouts and you could win the speakership. could they get two to vote for mccarthy? could they get three to vote present? and the other scenario would be, could you get one to vote for mccarthy, and one to vote present? bec...

Concessions are really the two big pieces, one is that motion to vacate the chair that we have talked so much about. lowering the threshold to just one vote. by any member who brings forward this idea of getting rid of the current speaker. scott perry in the break between these votes talked about that this is oversight for the speaker. and making the case that speaker, he or she the most powerful person in congress, and needs constant oversight, okay, youre going to get it. by the way, if it is ...

Exiting, but theres a sort of optimism that today could be a day where this deal actually bares fruit on the house floor potentially moving some votes in mccarthys direction, though no one i have talked to is under the impression it gets the full vote. even though we could see incremental rog, that could be enough. i think what jake ask his colleagues report overnight is the same thence that we have here at nbc, which is that while mccarthy seems to have some momentum, had he either needs to cap...

You have had had a lot of of sources inside the negotiations. how did they get here? and from your perspective, how high is the hill they have to climb, if kevin mccarthy is going to get the speakers gavel? >> i hate to say it, but this is when the real trouble starts. like getting the 10 to 12 was the easy part, this was where my reporting has been these are the people that were the good faith negotiators. the ones who they thought they could peel off with tangible offers and negotiations. that...

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It looks like it will be them, they will be the ones to hand some votes over to kevin so he can get that magic number, whatever the magic number is because listen, this is about a majority of people who are in the room so it�*s been the number 218 which he hasn�*t been able to achieve across this ballot but if some people leave the room, that number could go lower and the congressional threshold less and then mccarthy could pull it off but there are a number of ways this could come out, i th...

At politico. jonathan martin, seen your columnist at politico, and former republican congressman, joe walsh. first of all, the screen that shows the concessions, the font is getting smaller and smaller. maybe im getting older by the second. because youre adding to the bottom list, and thinking about this, just thinking about immediately on this point. the idea here that theyre going to have a threshold of one, this is quite a -- if you cannot get to this number, kevin mccarthy, at this point wit...

Going to give them one member to call for that vote. why is that significant? do you remember what happened to john boehner when the rule was one member would call for the vote. he didnt want to go through with the vote that could have toppled a residing speaker, so he resigned. and that threat to oust the speaker has been sitting -- has been yielded over the last several years so much so that it was nancy pelosi who raised the threshold to have their members to call for such a vote. but this ha...