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>> they're requested, those favoring a vote by yays and yeas nays are ordered. >> laura: they're waiting, let's go back to chad pergram. it appears they're going to continue chad. >> the problem is kevin mccarthy made significant progress today. he doesn't have the votes. he is one vote short. so in this circumstance you can do one of two things. you can go immediately to a 15th vote or you have to then go to an adjournment. you can do one of two things. so right now what they're doing is they are moving to adjourn. this requires a simple majority to adjourn. republicans so far have been able ...

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 fa...

Republican congressman kevin mccarthy has lost a 14th ballot. there will be a 15th ballot but not until monday. joining us now fresh off of voting against adjournment congressman jim hines of connecticut. congressman hunt, we're watching right now on the floor kevin mccarthy is raising his hand. hold on, something's going on. i'm sorry, congressman hines. we're going to go back to the floor of the house and try to figure out what's going on. because mccarthy and gaetz came to some sort of -- and now they're changing their votes. are they changing their votes to not adjourn. it looks like they'...

Long do we have time-wise before the next vote actually begins. >> it should happen automatically as soon as they close this vote, unless there's another motion to adjourn. that would be the only other thing in order right now. what's interesting here the first night that they had that adjournment, cheryl johnson who's the democratic clerk running the house of representatives right now because it's unclear who the speaker is going to be, show called that vote right at 15 minutes, exactly at 15 minutes. and so right now they're going to close this vote and bruce westerman, who is a republican f...

That's 428. then four members voting for somebody else by name, this is the algebra that's 432, 432 means you need 217. kevin mccarthy is one vote shy if our tally is correct here, 216 and that appears to be the case on the house floor because they seem to know that. so if he can get matt gaetz to vote for mccarthy by name, that would give him 217. the same with lauren boebert. note that they are sitting close together. now what might happen is this he could hold this vote open as long as they want. we're an extra parliamenttary turf. they might gavel it down, go to an adjournment or go to ano...