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Put this in the republicans hands, and make this the republicans problem. so of all 212 democrats do indeed vote against adjourning right now, it means that republicans can afford no more than five defections. the sixth republican defection will be 218, that the majority, and a majority against adjournment, and mccarthy would be back facing another, vote and presumably another loss. so, again we've been tracking, there are 20 republicans all day who voted against mccarthy, voting for another candidate. there's a 21st republican who voted present on the last two votes. there's 21 republicans an...

Near the number that they need. if they lose the vote by five or ten, it doesn't matter. they lose in either case. it sounds like they are making progress. it sounds like chip roy and maybe a few others are coming mccarthy's way. we will see. we don't know. i don't know if there's any agreement. they haven't announced it publically. they are negotiating. we will see how far they get between now and noon tomorrow. >> i want to go to manu. >> we get the name of the four republicans voting against, who did vote against this motion to adjourn until noon tomorrow. that includes congressman andy big...

Congressman-elect, a new one. the members who are voting with democrats to keep the house in session to vote against adjourning, and going home, and coming back tomorrow at noon. so now the question on everyone's mind is the standoff in the house gop, it will drag now into a third day. who will blink first? back with me, david irving, -- adi cornish and margaret talib. on that point, the idea of not adjourning tonight for these four members in particular, you see some of them, you have big, big,'s boebert, gates, and then crane. at least we know boebert and matt gates -- were saying never kevi...

They wanted to keep the negotiations going through the night. andy biggs voted against that. biobert was against adjourning last night, crane was against adjourning. they voted against adjourning at all. i think names you're looking for here as this vote -- this seventh vote comes a little more than an hour from now, bishop from north carolina, donalds, what are they doing? are you seeing any movement further down the list toward kevin mccarthy. they would say, hey, it's not 20 holdouts anymore, we got it down to 15. let's have another vote and see if we get that down to a dozen. that kind of ...

>> madam clerk, i rise to nominate hakeem jeffries of new york for speaker of this house. [ applause ] >> the gentleman is recognized. >> madam clerk, i speak on behalf of the democratic caucus when i say that there is no victory in adjourning without doing the business of the people. [ cheers and applause ]