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Around, andy biggs, matt gaetz, bob good, and matt rosen dale. what is the latest? >> reporter: right now mccarthy's team is confident tonight will finally be the night the 14th ballot, the longest speaker's election in more than 100 years that he'll be elected speaker of the house, but they've moved behind the scenes to work over those six members in the past couple of hours. looking at a combination of flipping him to vote for him or changing the voting threshold altogether. how do they do that? by convincing some of them to vote, quote, present prch this is the math. 214 members voted for k...

Politics there, but mccarthy doesn't seem too concerned. i asked him about rosendale and crane, and he didn't quite say how he plans to get those members, but there's lots of different scenarios in which you can get some. some may vote present to lower the voting threshold, and these two to spupport mccarthy are essential. this is an historic speaker's race. more than 100 years here that he will finally get the votes to be elected speaker after we've seen it's been 100 years since we have had multiple ballballots. >> it is huge news and a lucky friday the 13th for kevin mccarthy as of right no...

To find another candidate. and another sign for concern of his, that byron donalds, who is a republican from florida, was one of those who voted for mccarthy on the first two ballot, but not on the third ballot. and that is a real fear among mccarthy allies that the opposition may only grow. >> and how are democrats viewing this? >> well, they have not made a decision yet on how to proceed. they do know at the moment they're planning to sit back and watch this chaos unfold. this house is paralyzed. it cannot move forward until they elect a speaker that is the first order of business. and that ...

Single example of a bill being passed with less than 60 votes that was then repealed when there is a change in power in congress and the white house. not a single example of her fear, of her theoretical justification for a voting threshold in the senate that was not yet provided for in the constitution, and which defies dock moxie in a -- defies democracy. >> if we were to give into that moment of wanting exactly what you want, the reversal that would come in a year or two years would not only be bad for the american body, it would be bad for businesses, bad for state and local governments. >>...