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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 a...

>> 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 ...