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and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. >> we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don't know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they...

>> 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...

>> i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. >> i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. >> the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: it's over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasn't a national nightmare, i mean, it wasn't that long in the scheme of things, a few days, it just seemed like a few centuries, but it is over. kevin mccarthy at 1...

but at what price? he made a whole lot of concessions and it darn near came to blows. more on that later. just how did things unfold the way they did on that crucial 15th ballot, and how did mccarthy forces get those 6 never kevin members to end up voting present rather than against mccarthy? pennsylvania republican scott perry was a no vote on mccarthy too, but with he changed his mind a few voting rounds earlier. why then? we'll ask him, because perry is here now. and so is texas congressman keith selt who did the same thing. and look who wells is joining us this morning -- who els...

jeffries and six voting present. welcome to fox news live, i'm griff jenkins. hello, molly. >> hello, griff, i'm molly line. the new members of the 118th congress were sworn in and now the house is adjourned until monday. the contentious battle for the votes. >> it carried it the end. at one point it looked like this was not going to a 15th vote. following the 14th vote. congressman mike rogers from alabama had to be physically restrained after attempting to confront representative matt gaetz, but minds did change, a 15th vote was held well after midnight and congressman mccarthy was...