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covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that's a change from what you've heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let's go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week...

>> 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've got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. >> and indeed, they won't have been -- i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used...

snchts is there a deal for speaker in the works? i'm erin burnett and we're "out front". >> we're at a key moment in this totally grueling fight for speaker of the house. we're told negotiations are under way at this moment as an 11th vote is now under way. >> it appears that kevin mccarthy has lost, lost 11 votes. five just today. despite now the longest speaker contest in generations. as we're watching this, we're told that mccarthy support aernz his critics are at least talking. they've been behind closed doors trying to hammer out a deal in an attempt to show some progress. but...

and good evening, along with jake tapper in washington, d.c. we are watching the house of representatives' longest running drama since the civil war era. republicans failing time and time again, 11 times so far to elect kevin mccarthy speaker. >> 11 times. the latest vote, not only on that, merely on whether to adjourn and end kevin mccarthy's rolling humiliation for this evening. >> manu raju has new reporting on the state of play tonight. he joins us from the capitol. m manu, if they adjourn for the evening, what happens then? >> then the negotiations will continue. actually, the m...