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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 and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have ....
trace each vote is asylum. so once cheryl announced that, that vote is closed done. you can t go back retroactively. remember there was that window of time where everybody was working on matt gaetz in the back of the chamber. he could have changed that vote then. you were within that window. so that silo is done. then patrick mchenry made the motion to adjourn so they called for a roll call vote there, you move to the next silo so they re moving right now in the silo to adjourn. so that s the only thing you can vote on right now up or down, yes or no, adjourn or stay in session. so if they vote against a journalling, then by rule under these circumstances because you do not have a speaker of the house by rule the next vote has to be, must be unequivocally a 15th vote for speaker of the house. that s the only thing they can do. and for the motion to adjourn here, and correct me if i m wrong bret is there wiggle room ....
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 to adjourn when they ve needed to do so. they did so earlier today. they did so a couple of days ago. patrick mchenry the republican from north carolina has asked them to go out until noon on monday but then again the first order of business at that point would either be to adjourn or to take that 15th ballot. but they are short right now. ....
Fraternity where they re trying to get what can we do to make you happy, to make you join in on this thing. and there are people that, it s not mccarthy himself as you can see him talking to jim jordan there, but it is his allies and the people that are closest in this negotiation to those six other folks. but i need to ask you, bret, you talk about the whole russh rush analogy if you listened to matt gaetz and lauren boebert they were very happy with the concessions they received from kevin mccarthy. they were all in. in fact there were some analysts that said it sounds to me like matt gaetz and lauren boebert may not vote present they may vote yes. so if er this he a happy with everything they got then why would they vote present? why not change your vote and vote in favor of mccarthy? what do you have to lose. that s a great question. it s a great question appear it goes to the wall street ....