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You as john boehner, republican leader from day one, to one bible passageway from losing my job among my fellow republicans, that will make him -- that will impede what he can do, isn't it. >> yeah. it was raul labrador, one of the people that got the protest votes. it was always kind of unlikely that he was going to hang with that gang of eight because he is so far out on the right and they are looking at each other -- in the right wing of the caucus and saying that we don't need immigration reform. we don't care. we are not going to get latino votes. we look at the polling and the more recen...

Protest votes, but i think that all of that stirring that he's s probably just a lot of buzz. we will see in the next half hour if that's the case, but everything we're hearing on capitol hill is that it's not, and you just had the majority whip, mccarthy from california, say you never know, there's always excitement on the floor who will vote against speaker boehner, but there's still confidence, and you heard he didn't have any consternation about this vote, speaker boehner himself. jon: let's take a look over at the senate side now. there is high drama on the house side, but potential drama...

Mr. boehner could face an uphill battle, really? even if he wins back the gavel he'll have challenges ahead. joining us the power play fox news live and he's not challenged by anybody except for nancy pelosi, she's not going to get it and he's going to get it, isn't he? i know if he gets 17 nos and they have to keep voting and voting, they'll put him in line. >> one or two. they may punish him, the conservative members we're seeing the votes come in for people who aren't john boehner, these are protest votes, not to make nancy pelosi the speaker of the house again, this is to punish john boehn...

Was just had a blood clot can't do because of the danger. that's only a problem for a few weeks or months. it would be long enough that it would impact on any remaining part of her job. >> thanks for that update. bob bazell. >> thank you. >> it looks like john boehner is retaining his post as house speaker. we're watching the votes being counted right now. they're about to announce them on the house floor. luke russert and politico's mike allen both rejoining us. luke, to you. there were some protest votes. some of them were frivelous and certainly no coalescing around any real challenge. >> w...

John mccain. >> john mccain. >> after his campaign imploded. sam stein, another guy, ron paul, ron sits there stubbornly with 8%, 9%, 10%. we may see more protest votes going to ron paul who may inch up there, as well. >> and ron paul has sort of had that corner of the party for a while now. and it's basically stayed around 10% to 12% like you said. we talked a little bit off set about what role huntsman could play in seizing up some of that anti-romney sentiment. and i'm going to agree with you, if he's going to do it, he has to present himself differently than he has been so çfar, whic is ...