0 >> now they're going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let's listen in. >> gaetz. >> present. >> present. >> he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed -- present votes don't hurt. it's at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let's listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. >> mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries. david scott, jeffries. >> kevin mccarthy walks off the -- >> he does not look happy. >> kevin mccarthy walks off the floor -- i'm sorry, walks up the floor rather. matt gaetz, he needed him to vote yes not present. >> he's trying to convince him. he appears to be trying to convince matt gaetz to vote yes and not present. >> also, right, if he could get lauren boebert to change from present -- >> we haven't seen him doing this personally on the floor. he's obviously been doing it behind closed doors, but until this moment we've seen his deputies do this. this is it. this is do or die for him. >> that doesn't look like a guy saying yes to kevin mccarthy. >> what a sight to see. >> incredible. >> this is quite a sight to behold. kevin mccarthy needs one vote to become speaker of the house. matt gaetz does not look like he is willing to aqueous and change his vote from present. >> there was some guy in the back to yell at gaetz in a pink tie and another member pulled him back. >> mchenry seems to be trying to talk kevin mccarthy down a little bit here. mchenry of course a key ally who made a nominating speech that made it sound like this was a forgone conclusion. >> look at that. >> he looks dejected. look at that. >> compare that to how he walked in there smiling. >> they thought that they had -- i'm sure all you guys were hearing the same things that i was hearing. they thought they were going to get at least three present or one present within one flip or two flips. and any one of those combinations would have worked. manu raju, what are you hearing? >> what they're debate [negotiating right now matt gaetz wants to adjourn this chamber until monday. that is what he's been asking for through the course of this vote. this is according to sources telling me and my colleague. this is a discussion right now in the room. it's not entirely clear why he wants to come back on monday, but that is what he's been pushing for. that's why he voted present here. perhaps his vote may change on monday. it's really unclear, but that is what's causing all this tension on the floor right now, a remarkable scene here as gaetz is sitting next to a number of his allies, a number of people he's talked today for some time. members of the leadership as well are talking to him, and unclear if he's going to budge at this moment, but he does have an opportunity to change his vote before they officially close this vote, but matt gaetz wants to adjourn to monday. the leadership doesn't want to do that. they want to finish this up right now and kevin mccarthy on the brink of the speakership all in the hands of matt gaetz who is not willing to give it to him right now, jake. >> i should also note that i don't see any action going on in terms of the floor of individuals who voted for other candidates, any one of them voting present would also deliver the victory, and that's andy biggs, elie crane, bob good or matt rosendale. >> outside the chamber have just reported they were talking outside the house doors and they walked back onto the floor. >> those four? >> the three of them, rosendale, good, and biggs. this was according to our producer nicky robertson who's standing out the house chamber right now. >> if one of those four who voted for someone else changes their vote just to present then kevin mccarthy becomes speaker. i've never seen anything like this. this is the kind of thing that -- >> none of us have. >> -- that we imagine goes on behind the scenes. but kevin mccarthy walking up the hall of the chamber -- walking up the aisle going to boebert and mainly gaetz and -- >> but did you see mike rogers from alabama? he was like going toward -- >> mike rogers was yelling, and i believe it was richard hudson who had to kind of hold him back and put his hand over his mouth. >> andy tgreyer is saying mike rogers of alabama lunged after matt gaetz. >> that tense tuesday meeting is when they threatened to pull people off their committees. >> it's beyond embarrassing at this point. it's humiliating to kevin mccarthy, but remember when they broke earlier and took this break and said they were going to come back this evening they asked him why he was confident, and he said because i count. again, he has failed at his number one job, counting. he and his team have one job, count. >> but he's dealing with some people who are i mean unpredictable would be putting it mildly. i mean matt gaetz i think in this moment you -- you could say that he is not acting in good faith, and just a sense of the tensions in this room, there are several people in the room, members who came back to washington, wesley hunt, ken buck due to health issues. wesley hunt's wife is in the hospital, just had a baby who's premature. people not just want to go home. a lot of these people need to go home. and what is matt gaetz's end game? >> i get your point it's hard. but this is his job. >> he's not the only one, though, guys. there are other people in that group who could change their -- i never thought i would say the words in fairness to matt gaetz -- >> but in fairness goets and boebert voted present. >> boebert is there, she's not changing her vote to kevin, and the other three -- they're not changing their vote to present or for mccarthy. yes, gaetz went last. it was dramatic. but the whole group is -- >> this is just -- honestly it's sad. it's embarrassing. >> he didn't know why boehner and ryan walked away, but now he knows. >> it almost came to fisticuffs like i went to the house of representatives and a hockey game broke out. >> based on manu's reporting if gaetz was i'm not changing my vote, this is what it is, that would be one thing. but he wants to hold this over until monday. that's why my attention is focused on gaetz because he has an ulterior motive here, and it might end up with the same outcome but he wants to drag it out. and the dragging it out is causing just sheer anger and frustration to bubble up. >> he just said rules package as part of this conversation. he said rules package so maybe he still wants to see it all in writing. >> we're watching a civil war in the republican party play out on television on the house floor at 11:00 on friday night. >> on january 6th. >> have you ever seen anything like this, dana bash? >> never, for lots of reasons not the least of which we have this -- this view of the house floor, which we never get to see because there isn't a rules package, because there isn't a speaker yet. and the c-span cameras are giving us exactly what we want, a literal split screen of kevin mccarthy and his camp and the people who are keeping the speakership from him at this point in his own party. >> we have never seen anything like this in the house of representatives, nothing of this magnitude. this is historic. it might be for the wrong reasons historic, but it is historic. >> there's marjorie taylor greene now approaching the hold outs here. we were speculating earlier perhaps gaetz wanted to take a moment for the spotlight and sort of save the day. but i think what's happened is that he's been put in this position where they need him to actually go back on all of the words that he has said for months now and very publicly in the last few days, if their idea in the past as we've been kind of reporting and hearing is that there was going to be three people willing to vote present and now there's only two, you know, that puts gaetz in a tough spot if he says -- you know, he's asserted mccarthy is never going to be speaker and now they want him to be the one person who actually puts him over the finish line, that actually is a tough ask and i think shows you why so many people are involved in this conversation right now. >> this also -- we've discussed this a lot over the last couple of days. it was ugly from the beginning. it is ugly tonight when it looked as if we were at the end, but it also portends what kevin mccarthy is going to be facing down the road. this is not going to change, and i was just looking back at notes from earlier this week when former republican speaker of the house who we're not naming but kasie can guess said to me you get one guess -- said the suicide squad is locked in. it is like watching someone burn down their own house because the flames excite them. it's where we started the beak, and it's a smaller group but still going on. >> let me also just say we've talked a about this before how a lot of the people plotting this opposition, this isn't just matt gaetz, lauren boebert, andy biggs, and others. there is a group of individuals including former white house chief of staff mark meadows, including trump's former budget director, including former republican senator jim -- including ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. there are a number of individuals plugged into maga world even if they are not part of trump's inner circle per se at least right now who want matt gaetz and andy biggs and crane and good and rosendale, want them and will reward them for what they're doing right now. we don't see it right now, and it's certainly not present among the house republican conference, but there will be applause for them at cpac or whatever. >> and rosendale went up and patted him on the shoulder i think after that happened, if it speaks to what we were talking about earlier, what rosendale was going to do. rosendale also got a call from former president trump earlier today urging him to vote for mccarthy, did not work. >> every description i've heard of those calls, though, i've heard trump describe as it being cursory or half heart. >> that's definitely what i heard earlier this week. i don't know about the calls today. but it does speak to what you're saying, jake, how the split and what's been created here and how it's kind of out of control. and -- >> it's going to be like this for every successive vote that kevin mccarthy has to get on the floor. >> kevin mccarthy is saying earlier they learned how to govern today and hours later -- >> i don't think mccarthy really understood what this was going to be like until this moment. and not only that he's only negotiating with himself at this point. he's not even in a position where he has to negotiate with the other chamber, the senatet or the democrats. i mean, it's going to be like this but so much worse every single time anything of substance comes before the house of representatives. and, yeah, mccarthy had to learn that, he did learn that. >> they thought they had a deal. they trusted people who can't be trusted. >> took the words right out of my mouth. >> the irony where they claim they can't trust kevin mccarthy. >> mccarthy people thought they had this figured out. >> and who did they think was going to vote -- they're gaveling back in so let's listen in. but i would love to know did they give names of who they thought were going to vote? >> some of them believed rosendale would go along with the present. >> would vote present. if he didn't he gave an angry andy biggs yell, i think. >> the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432 of which the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. [ applause ] the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212 . the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received two. the honorable andy biggs of the state of arizona has received two. no member-elect having received a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. >> we do now adjourn until noon on monday. >> will the gentleman repeat his motion? >> i move the house do now adjourn until noon monday. >> the question is on the motion to adjourn. all those in favor say -- the ayes have it. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. in the opinion of the chair the noes have it. >> madam clerk, i ask for the yeas and nays. >> the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having risen the yeas and nays in order. >> he does not want to be humiliated. >> so this is what's going on right now. kevin mccarthy has lost for the 14th time in a row. he has never been closer in his life to winning the speakership of the house of representatives. but he needed either one more yea vote or one more present vote. and the two people voting present congress people boebert and gaetz, and the four people voting against him for candidate congress people biggs and good and rosendale would not play ball. so right now the lieutenant for mccarthy, congressman patrick mchenry of north carolina, who's done so much to wrangle votes for mccarthy has made a motion to adjourn congress until monday at noon eastern. and we are seeing if that happens. it seems likely that it will given the fact matt gaetz was asking for adjournment until monday and the mccarthy people were also asking for adjournment until monday. >> i would like to first give you my apologies -- >> i don't think our viewers know i had the 14th ballot down as the most likely for which mccarthy would become speaker. >> each of these six members had the possibility of making this happen, and they didn't. i'd like to add one other person to that, and that's kevin mccarthy himself. because we're here today in great part because of his trying to appease this group for a long, long time. it wasn't just the trip down to mar-a-lago to try to get trump's support. he has been playing what i would say is a dangerous game with this group. >> let's also just, i think, call this what it is, which is the most stunning defeat for kevin mccarthy yet through this process. >> they thought they had the votes. >> onto this floor with jubilation, patrick mchenry, his top vote counter, honestly the man who can count the votes in the house better than anyone gave the speech that sounded in many ways like a wedding toast like we were discussing, telling stories, cracking jokes about mccarthy only to see it fall apart because they clearly did not understand what was going on with these hard liners. and unlike all the other votes we have seen where over and over again he's said stubbornly we're going to figure it out, we're going to figure it out, we're going to go to the next thing, this one was supposed to be the end and it wasn't. >> and this was supposed to be an easy one. they have a very narrow majority. nothing will be easy. but of all the things they have to do, this one was supposed to be the easiest, picking a leader. what about the time of national crisis, what about raising the debt crisis, all things have to originate in the house of representatives. kevin mccarthy cannot -- they're not even congressmen and women at the vote. they're congressmen and women elect at the moment. we don't have a house of representatives at the moment. the fact we're having this conversation on january 6th and the republicans almost came to blows on the floor of the united states house where two years ago on this night more than 100 of them including the man who wants it be speaker, including his number two, and including his number three were trying to help donald trump steal an election. the irony of history on the anniversary of history, chaos on the anniversary of disaster -- >> i mean we know that that there is almost no respect for kevin mccarthy among that group. but it has been taken to such a level that it's even hard to fathom right now. and it's not just about kevin mccarthy now. it is about the institution. they're just messing with him. >> it's not as if he is -- >> i was just getting texts from some people who are in mccarthy's camp who still believe that even after what he just saw he will eventually become speaker. maybe matt gaetz just wants him to twist in the wind for two more days. >> but the fact this is -- they're making him walk over hot coals, swim with sharks, do everything he possibly can in the most painful, tortuous way to get to this point. >> i don't know if you guys can get this image on the camera here, but this is what -- i don't know if you can get the cameraman back at the -- this is an image put out by the mccarthy team. it says game time. this is put outright before 10:00 p.m. tonight. it is kevin mccarthy watching to the chamber. game time, 9:59 p.m. this is put up by mccarthy's team. >> he got screwed by these guys, and it's not the first time and it won't be the last. >> can i say also if you're being outsmarted by rosendale and matt gaetz. >> that's what happened. is outsmarted the same as just lied to? >> here's the thing when you have a narrow majority, any handful of people can screw up your best laid plans. >> we're missing something. we are missing something. we went from an appearance on shaun hannity tonight where lauren boebert and matt gaetz were calling for a speaker designate and then they came to the floor, something happened in between then. we don't know. there's something that happened clearly. >> they did change their votes to present. >> what changed in between at that exact moment -- >> they're expecting a third present vote and that did not materialize. so one of the other four should be the focus here because one of the other four clearly the indicated to the mccarthy team that they were willing to vote present, which would have handed him the gavel. >> all right, erin, we have a game of clue here. was it congressman rosendale in the house chamber with a false promise? back to you. >> a night of treachery and an image of what happened. just to give some context to this, that moment on the floor, i want to show everybody the video when you say mike rogers of alabama appearing to have to be physically restrained. >> right on the face. watch his face. >> wow. >> as kevin mccarthy is stonily walking away. >> this is treachery. >> first of all, i'd like to thank all of our viewers cnn's exclusive screening of snake's on a plane part 2. i've never seen the amount of treachery not since 1866 since preston brooks the kind of treachery at the capitol dome. >> was that on c-span? >> this is absolutely high drama, crazy stuff. i can't imagine how mccarthy and mchenry who i was heaping praise upon earlier for their skill today. >> but wait a second. >> somebody lied to them. >> right when it happened people were telling me rosendale who committed the first act of treachery but it looks like maybe they were all in it together. >> we can make all the jokes we want, and we will. this is despicable. this is a despicable display of a failure of leadership of exactly what the american people believe they voted against, and as john king mentioned two years to the day in some of the same hours, quite frankly, when some of these very strange extremists were trying to hold our country hostage. and every single time we've -- no, no, no, let me finish. every time we talk about back to the civil war, think about where our country was during the civil war in terms of the divisiveness. you want to talk about treachery. >> you know, guys, this is just despicable. >> can we go back two years, because kevin mccarthy stood on the floor of this house at this time and denounced the president of the united states for provoking an insurrection at the capitol. weeks later he went down and bended his knee to donald trump, and that was a reflection of weakness. and what we've seen a