david scott. effries. so here s 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 let s bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. that s right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have matt g
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so what they probably want to do is take a timeout. you know, this was a pretty intense set of conversations on the floor. the problem is, does kevin mccarthy lose anybody? do you have people not show up? each vote is going to be different. the mathis going to be different if you have different people s dispositions. does wesley hunt have to travel again. how is ken buck s health? you have three other ken bucks. are democrats all there? at some point these levies break and shift. that s why it is algebra when you try to get this speaker vote set up here. so we ll see now, keep in mind, they might not go out. if they do not vote to adjourn, they have to immediately go to that 15th ballot. so here in the next 10 or 15 minutes we ll know what s going on but we have to wait until they close this vote trace. thank you chad we ll get back to you in moments. let s bring back bret baier and you have information coming from the floor. what do you know? well, there s just a lot of