55th Representative News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> 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 a...

And there were other concessions that he did give. the question is, what does the weekend show? i don't think, because all of these folks were starting to talk today, including boebert and gaetz on hannity earlier, about the success that they've had of changing the institution. so at one vote away from the speakership, it's hard to imagine that someone else steps in and gets more votes than kevin mccarthy. he's cobbled together and fought through 14 ballots and now it's going to be 15 to try to be the 55th representative in the united states of america to ever hold this position. >> it is abso...