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Personal matter, but i am now told from a democratic source that he is on his way back. why would he be on his way back? because in the complicated math of having to win a majority of those voting on the floor other than those voting present who do not count, right now kevin mccarthy only needs to pick up three republicans to get the magic number 216 to become speaker, but this democrat tells me and i'm no math expert, but this is what they say, they have people who do this professionally, if david trone comes back, that will mean that kevin mccarthy will not need 216 votes to become speaker, ...

He has seemed pretty dug in, but we'll see what happens there. the next name to come on the list is ralph norman. we're about 15 names away from him. very rapid fire after that. scott perry, chair of the freedom caucus, has been central to these locations. it will be interesting to see. chip roy was central to this package cut overnight or that deal that was swa worked out overnight. we'll see what happens with chip roy. does spartz start voting for mccarthy. she started voting present. but mccarthy was promising progress here. this is not a winning number for him, but there's the possibility ...

0 good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. it's january 6th. the anniversary of an insurrection that almost destroyed our democracy. today the white house and the nation commemorate the civilian and law enforcement heroes and the victims of that terrible day, even as the house chamber is no longer a literal battleground, it is now torn apart by political combat. a divide among republican factions creating a new crisis of government. on this date in 2021, lawmakers were wearing gas masks and taking cover as thousands stormed hallways fuelled by former president trump's false claims that the...

The agenda the voters elected us to move forward with and stop biden's agenda. there was no answer. >> meantime kevin mccarthy says he's in it for the long haul. the record long-haul happened back in 1856, when it took 133 ballots over two months to elect a speaker of the house. the house cannot do any business until there's a speaker. new members can't be sworn in. s as the ballots move on, some members might start voting present, and, lowering kevin mccarthy's threshold. he needs 218 votes. tucker, he's 16 short going into tomorrow. >> tucker: democracy in action. trace gallagher, thank you....

Now spartz voting present, that means on this round, 212 votd for jeffries, 201 voted for kevin mccarthy. 20 voted for byron donalds. one voted for present. that means there were only 433 votes cast in this fourth round. 50% plus 1 of that is 217. so what that did is lowered the threshold from 218 to 21. neither jeffries nor mccarthy is anywhere near that, but the danger a little bit for mccarthy is present votes can help him in lowering the threshold. but he needs the present votes to be coming from this group of votes. the folks who were voting against him. when they starlet coming from folk...