212 is our call for a speaker who will secure liberty, justice and opportunity for everyone. Well, the unanimous call of 212 House Democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker The Gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries. [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected, disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide, and it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. Hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against health care for children for veterans and even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me. It was raised on the other side of the aisle just this week as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he has turned his back on farmers, on rural communities, and the 11 million children who go to bed hungry in this country. The republican nomine wants a National Abortion ban. With no exceptions for rape, incest or the health of a mother. We want to make our own Health Care Decisions in consultation with our families, our doctors, our faith not with jim jordan. The republican nominee plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Traffic in misinformation and is a true threat to our democracy and our constitution. I have had the privilege of working here in the peoples house for almost 10 year, and i have gotten to know many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and i know that you hear the same thing that ti do. The American People expect us to Work Together on their behalf. [ applause ] it is not too late for the majority to choose a bipartisan path forward to reopen the house, take yes for an answer. Every day, every day, the majority chooses to engage in a republican civil war that is threatening their own members instead of engaging with us in the work of the American People is a day that weakens this institution and the standing of our country. We need a speaker who will govern through consensus, not conflict. We need a speaker worthy of wielding that gavel, a leader who will defend democracy, not degrade it. More than ever, we need proven patrioticpeoplefirst leadership, and this is why i am proud to nominate Hakeem Jeffries as speaker of the house. [ applause ] the clerk will now call the roll. Adams. Jeffries. Jeffries. Aderholt. Jordan. Aguilar. Jeffries. Alford. Jim jordan. Jordan. Allen. Jordan. Alren. Jeffries. Almoday. Jordan. Armstrong. Jordan. Arrington. Jordan. Aukenclass. Jordan. Bacon. Mchenry. Baird. Jordan. Balderson. Jordan. Balant. Jeffries. And now, we are listening as what is the third vote for jim jordan for speaker, and interesting moment. Don bacon, the republican of nebraska who has never voted for jordan and twice voted for mccarthy this time voted for patrick mb hchenry voted for th temporary speaker, and someone who is very, very bullied by supporters of jim jordan. His wife has gotten voice mails, texts from people who are threatening her if he did not switch his vote. He clearly is more dug in against jim jordan than ever. We will continue to watch and listen to the votes. We should note that the way that this works, scott jennings, it is a majority of those who are present, and we know that there are fewer House Members present today than there were for earlier votes, and we believe it is 215 today, because that is the magic number, because of the total number there is lower, but we wont be sure until it is over. What we are going to be looking for no matter the total is specific members we know voted for jordan before to see how many more votes jim jordan loses. Right. Does somebody who has been voting for him go away, and we also know that you mentioned that there were fewer people, and one of jordans votes van orten is not there, and apparently on a factfinding mission. I want to say it is 214 we believe. Brown . Jeffries. Brownley. Jeffries. Buch buchanan. Donalds. Buck. Emmer. Bucshon. Jordan. Budzinski. Jeffries. Burchett. So that is three votes against jim jordan as of right now. He can lose five House Republicans total given todays number of House Members that are present. While we continue to watch the vote and look at those that we expect will not vote for him, we can take a second. I have to say, john king, i am still confused as to why we are going through this. It does not appear as though he has the votes, and other than this being an exercise in selfregard, and why would he do this to himself, and why would he do this to the country . It is a fantastic question, and why would he do this to his republican party, and 380plus days away from the election, and they will want to keep the house of representatives and win back the senate, and they will argue that they can lead, and at the moment, they cannot pick a leader. And seeing Kevin Mccarthy who had just been humiliated by fellow republicans, and pick jim jordan as a unifier and leader when most of the republicans know that is not jim jordans role in 16 years in congress, and anyone can change, but it is not his role, and that has not been his history, and what is this about . You raised key question, what is that about i want to pause you because i want to see what Congresswoman Chavez Castor says. Castor of florida. Jeffries. Castro of texas. Jeffries. Chavez dreamer. Mchenry. All right. So that is the fourth vote against congressman dreamer, and this is from the congresswoman castro dreamer, and she had voted for Kevin Mccarthy before and now she is voting for mchenry, and one more vote against jim jordan and his hopes for the speakership are going down in flames. And john king, you were just saying that Kevin Mccarthy in the nominating speech was describing somebody who for no resemblance to jim jordan whatsoever. And Kevin Mccarthys speakership, and it is a difficult job and he has a tiny majority, and a group of republicans who dont want to govern, and give Kevin Mccarthy some grace, but the speakership was a failure. He was unable to get them together, and saying that we need to govern, and set things aside, and he just nominated someone who has less of a record of achieving compromise than Kevin Mccarthy did. And the question is that Kevin Mccarthy failed, and lost the speakership, and almost three weeks ago now, and two weeks plus. They have been unable, and israel needs an aid package, and ukraine needs an aid package, and do the republicans want to govern or continue this, and circus is not a word for it. Demonstration, and incapacity to govern. And so he is about to lose. He is short the votes again, and the opposition is not melting, and so what is the point. If you cannot win, the logical thing to do is to step aside and give someone else a chance, and sod what is jim jordan going to do about this vote. Talk of keeping it up for the weekend and wear them down, and there is zero evidence of that, and the math is right there on the screen. There was a clear effort this morning to kind of rebrand him after all of these year, and rebranding him into the effective legislator, and you could hear the laughter from the assemble on the house, but he has a tougher job than mccarthy did. Mccarthy was fighting the rabblerousers on the right wing. He had one group that he was focused on the matt gaetzled group. Jordan has a lot of the whack a mole with a lot of groups. He has the stencentrists that hs to worry about, and the people who have been bullied, and scalise people. We will listen in, because a couple of the ds coming in, desposito, and diaz balart, and i want to hear these. Jeffries. De la cruz . Jordan. Delauro. Jeffries. Dell bene. Jeffries. Debelieuso. Jeffries. Debelay . Zeldin. That could be the magic number there. Diaz balart. Scalise. Dingell. Jeffries. Doggett. Jeffries. Donalds. Jordan. Duarte. Jordan. Duncan. Jordan. Dunn of florida. Jordan. Edwards. Jordan. Ellzey. Mike garcia. So that is seven votes against jim jordan as of right now, and while the caveat always applies that people change their votes sometimes. You know, before the gavel comes down, and while that has not happened in this round of speaker votes, it always could happen. But as of right now, according to the vote count at the beginning of this process, jim jordan could only afford to lose five votes. Now, he has lost seven. So, again, he will lose as of now, and hold on, because i want to hear from Drew Ferguson of georgia has. Ferguson . Scalise. And so on track to be a very similar vote if not the same vote as yesterday. Gloria, i interrupted you before, and continue. I was saying that he has a bunch of groups that he has to placate and clearclearly, he ha done it. The people who were mccarthy fans, scalise fan, and felt that he was treated badly, and the people who have been threatened. The people more moderate and squishy to give into him. It has been such an Uphill Battle for him, and even worse than mccarthy who went 15 rounds. I have the interrupt, because he lost a vote that he had gotten twice in a row, and this is from Brian Fitzpatrick from outside of philly. I know Congressman Fitzpatrick a little bit, because we rout for the eagles together, and he is from a Biden District and he is part of the Problem Solvers district, and a moderate republican, and one of the few left, and he has been voting along the party line all along for mccarthy, for scalise or jordan and he just voted for Patrick Mchenry, and i should note that this is the third vote for Patrick Mchenry, and two people vote for him, bacon and i think that dreamer, and now we have Brian Fitzpatrick flipping from jordan to mchenry. And going back to the conversation of dan crenshaw, and he said, the conference said he is our nominee, and so that is what he said, but now members crenshaw who said one more vote. And now, garbarino. Jeffries. Garb garbarino . Zeldin. Zeldin. They are sending a message to jordan that we have to stop this. And they are saying, enough, enough. The math is not there, and we have been loyal republicans, and i need to go home to explain this to my constituents while we are on the verge of it, we have this. Jimenez of florida coming up. Listen in. Jeffries. Jimenez. Mccarthy. Another mccarthy vote for jimenez, and he sis a 11th for no. And that is a no vote, because people are sort of saying, that he might be the solution. The patrick vote was a switch, but b, it is a Biden District and we talked about the 18 republicans who are currently in the districts that joe biden won, and six of them initially, onethird had been opposed to jordan and twothirds, and the fact that is growing is significant. And 12. And so he is doing worse than last time, because of the addition of fitzpatrick. By the way, there had been talk of some of the new york republicans who had voted for lee zeldin to flip for jordan if he had gone along with the salt tax credit, and there had been talk about maybe he would go along with letting the new yorkers have this tax credit because they pay higher taxes in new york, et cetera, et cetera, and i dont know what promises he made, but in any case, it did not work and they still voted for lee zeldin, a former congressman from new york. And now, another one, kate granger. Granger . Scalise. That is 13. Again, he is doing worse. The numbers are not there. And i recognize that congressman jordan is not someone who respects election results, but it is turning into the ignamanous defeat. And it is a holdout, and some of them said, it is over. We are never going to vote for you. And obviously, what he did after that is to call another vote. He is not hearing message. He is oblivious to it. That is the only logical explanation or you just think that they keep saying to him, it is embarrassing, jim, and the American People say that are not able to govern, and lead their own family, and the logical answer is that if you want to give me one more vote, and okay, see what he says, but if you keep doing it, then what is the point except for ego, and you dont care about the party. I want to add one piece of reporting which is that different people have different agendas, and kevin, i am told that Kevin Mccarthys team has been helping jim jordan with the strategy, and so maybe this is that jim jordan thinks that he can bully people or make some promises, but i also am told that Kevin Mccarthys team has told him to keep going. Kevin mccarthy who just lost the speakership but still has the sign above the door. And yesterday, jordan was open at one point to the mchenry route, and he said, lets have a vote on that, and he went into the conference and the right said no, because it would be capitulating to the democrats, and we wont have a coalition government, and he switched back. They view mchenry as a pragmatic republican, and they dont trust him, because he would like to govern, and they dont like that. And Patrick Mchenry also is not an election denier, and the republicans that i spoke to last night said that the one thing that we will not make a deal on is someone who is an election denyer. And this is a loss for donald trump, because jim jordan has his support, and the base is in the conference and many of the people voting against jordan were not trump people to begin with, but donald trump is the most dominant person in the republican party, and he is less dominant than before. He is not weighing in on this. Because he knows he is losing. And we have congressman john james coming in. He has voted against jordan twice before and not long after that, we have mike evans, and a few jordan skeptics coming in, and then of course, Hakeem Jeffries gets to vote for himself which is an interesting moment. Jeffries . Jackson of north carolina. Jeffries. Jackson of texas. Jordan. Jordan. Jackson lee. Jeffries. Jeffries. Jacobs. Jeffries. Jeffries. James. Donalds. Donalds. That is 14 against jim jordan. 14. Again, he is doing worse. Jayapal. Jeffries. Jeffries. Jeffries. That is Hakeem Jeffries for Hakeem Jeffries. That is the reason for the applause. Johnson of georgia. Jeffries. Jeffries. Johnson of louisiana. Jordan. Jordan. Johnson of ohio. Jordan. Jordan. Johnson of south dakota. Jordan. Jordan. Jordan. Jordan. [ applause ] jordan. Jordan. Joyce of pennsylvania. Jordan. Jordan. Ken loggerdeux. Jordan. Captor . Jeffries. Cain of new jersey. Mccarthy. That is another loss. Tom kean of new jersey is another moderate republican of a Biden District who had voted for jordan twice. Now, he is gone. That is 15 votes against. And now we have mike kelly of pennsy pennsylvania. Kelly of pennsylvania. Scalise. Scalise, and 16 against, and we want to know what jen kiggins of virginia does. And now, kiggins of virginia. Mchenry. Mchenry. Ki kildee. So a net 17 against jordan and throwing it back to dana. I am not sure if that is the net but it is two new votes against jordan. So he is definitely doing worse than yesterday. I also think it is three or four mchenry votes for the first time. Three four . Four. Four mchenry votes, but dana bash, the trend that i am seeing is that it is obviously not a landslide for mchenry, but it is a trend of votes for mchenry from the skeptics, and more votes against jordan today at least at this point with the caveat that things could change. So, again, another bad day for jim jordan as he continues strategy of the beatings will continue until the morale improves. Dana . Yes, and the trend toward mchenry is deliberate particularly by the two new votes that we heard including from tom kean who voted for mccarthy, and we heard jen kiggins who had voted for mccarthy who switched to mchenry. And i wanted to bring in charlie dent as we continue to listen to your former colleagues vote again today, charlie dent. As we are watching this, we should remember that what we are seeing play out is a Battle For The Heart And Soul of the republican party, and we have been talking for seven years about the fact that this is Donald Trumps republican party. And what we are watching right now is your flavor of republicans, former congressman dent, the moderates and those who have been shoved aside and ridiculed as not real republicans in the trump era flexing the muscle. Yeah, they have been mocked, insulted and told they dont have any spines, and invertebrate, and well, they have had enough, and this is the revenge of the rinos, and so, they are standing up strong. This is the fight that needs to happen. The institutionalists, the Pragmatists Versus the trump populists who dont have a philosophy, a governing philosophy. And they are just about making noise and causing disruption versus the people who are serious about doing The Business Of Governing and want a policy agenda. This is a real fight. I am glad that it is happening, and obviously, this is not politically good for the Political Party to happen in public, but th