0 >> now they're going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let's listen in. >> gaetz. >> present. >> present. >> he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed -- present votes don't hurt. it's at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let's listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. >> mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries. david scott, jeffries. >> kevin mccarthy walks off the -- >> he does not look happy. >> kevin mccarthy walks off the floor -- i'm sorry, walks up the floor rather. matt gaetz, he needed him to vote yes not present. >> he's trying to convince him. he appears to be trying to convince matt gaetz to vote yes and not present. >> also, right, if he could get lauren boebert to change from present -- >> we haven't seen him doing this personally on the floor. he's obviously been doing it behind closed doors, but until this moment we've seen his deputies do this. this is it. this is do or die for him. >> that doesn't look like a guy saying yes to kevin mccarthy. >> what a sight to see. >> incredible. >> this is quite a sight to behold. kevin mccarthy needs one vote to become speaker of the house. matt gaetz does not look like he is willing to aqueous and change his vote from present. >> there was some guy in the back to yell at gaetz in a pink tie and another member pulled him back. >> mchenry seems to be trying to talk kevin mccarthy down a little bit here. mchenry of course a key ally who made a nominating speech that made it sound like this was a forgone conclusion. >> look at that. >> he looks dejected. look at that. >> compare that to how he walked in there smiling. >> they thought that they had -- i'm sure all you guys were hearing the same things that i was hearing. they thought they were going to get at least three present or one present within one flip or two flips. and any one of those combinations would have worked. manu raju, what are you hearing? >> what they're debate [negotiating right now matt gaetz wants to adjourn this chamber until monday. that is what he's been asking for through the course of this vote. this is according to sources telling me and my colleague. this is a discussion right now in the room. it's not entirely clear why he wants to come back on monday, but that is what he's been pushing for. that's why he voted present here. perhaps his vote may change on monday. it's really unclear, but that is what's causing all this tension on the floor right now, a remarkable scene here as gaetz is sitting next to a number of his allies, a number of people he's talked today for some time. members of the leadership as well are talking to him, and unclear if he's going to budge at this moment, but he does have an opportunity to change his vote before they officially close this vote, but matt gaetz wants to adjourn to monday. the leadership doesn't want to do that. they want to finish this up right now and kevin mccarthy on the brink of the speakership all in the hands of matt gaetz who is not willing to give it to him right now, jake. >> i should also note that i don't see any action going on in terms of the floor of individuals who voted for other candidates, any one of them voting present would also deliver the victory, and that's andy biggs, elie crane, bob good or matt rosendale. >> outside the chamber have just reported they were talking outside the house doors and they walked back onto the floor. >> those four? >> the three of them, rosendale, good, and biggs. this was according to our producer nicky robertson who's standing out the house chamber right now. >> if one of those four who voted for someone else changes their vote just to present then kevin mccarthy becomes speaker. i've never seen anything like this. this is the kind of thing that -- >> none of us have. >> -- that we imagine goes on behind the scenes. but kevin mccarthy walking up the hall of the chamber -- walking up the aisle going to boebert and mainly gaetz and -- >> but did you see mike rogers from alabama? he was like going toward -- >> mike rogers was yelling, and i believe it was richard hudson who had to kind of hold him back and put his hand over his mouth. >> andy tgreyer is saying mike rogers of alabama lunged after matt gaetz. >> that tense tuesday meeting is when they threatened to pull people off their committees. >> it's beyond embarrassing at this point. it's humiliating to kevin mccarthy, but remember when they broke earlier and took this break and said they were going to come back this evening they asked him why he was confident, and he said because i count. again, he has failed at his number one job, counting. he and his team have one job, count. >> but he's dealing with some people who are i mean unpredictable would be putting it mildly. i mean matt gaetz i think in this moment you -- you could say that he is not acting in good faith, and just a sense of the tensions in this room, there are several people in the room, members who came back to washington, wesley hunt, ken buck due to health issues. wesley hunt's wife is in the hospital, just had a baby who's premature. people not just want to go home. a lot of these people need to go home. and what is matt gaetz's end game? >> i get your point it's hard. but this is his job. >> he's not the only one, though, guys. there are other people in that group who could change their -- i never thought i would say the words in fairness to matt gaetz -- >> but in fairness goets and boebert voted present. >> boebert is there, she's not changing her vote to kevin, and the other three -- they're not changing their vote to present or for mccarthy. yes, gaetz went last. it was dramatic. but the whole group is -- >> this is just -- honestly it's sad. it's embarrassing. >> he didn't know why boehner and ryan walked away, but now he knows. >> it almost came to fisticuffs like i went to the house of representatives and a hockey game broke out. >> based on manu's reporting if gaetz was i'm not changing my vote, this is what it is, that would be one thing. but he wants to hold this over until monday. that's why my attention is focused on gaetz because he has an ulterior motive here, and it might end up with the same outcome but he wants to drag it out. and the dragging it out is causing just sheer anger and frustration to bubble up. >> he just said rules package as part of this conversation. he said rules package so maybe he still wants to see it all in writing. >> we're watching a civil war in the republican party play out on television on the house floor at 11:00 on friday night. >> on january 6th. >> have you ever seen anything like this, dana bash? >> never, for lots of reasons not the least of which we have this -- this view of the house floor, which we never get to see because there isn't a rules package, because there isn't a speaker yet. and the c-span cameras are giving us exactly what we want, a literal split screen of kevin mccarthy and his camp and the people who are keeping the speakership from him at this point in his own party. >> we have never seen anything like this in the house of representatives, nothing of this magnitude. this is historic. it might be for the wrong reasons historic, but it is historic. >> there's marjorie taylor greene now approaching the hold outs here. we were speculating earlier perhaps gaetz wanted to take a moment for the spotlight and sort of save the day. but i think what's happened is that he's been put in this position where they need him to actually go back on all of the words that he has said for months now and very publicly in the last few days, if their idea in the past as we've been kind of reporting and hearing is that there was going to be three people willing to vote present and now there's only two, you know, that puts gaetz in a tough spot if he says -- you know, he's asserted mccarthy is never going to be speaker and now they want him to be the one person who actually puts him over the finish line, that actually is a tough ask and i think shows you why so many people are involved in this conversation right now. >> this also -- we've discussed this a lot over the last couple of days. it was ugly from the beginning. it is ugly tonight when it looked as if we were at the end, but it also portends what kevin mccarthy is going to be facing down the road. this is not going to change, and i was just looking back at notes from earlier this week when former republican speaker of the house who we're not naming but kasie can guess said to me you get one guess -- said the suicide squad is locked in. it is like watching someone burn down their own house because the flames excite them. it's where we started the beak, and it's a smaller group but still going on. >> let me also just say we've talked a about this before how a lot of the people plotting this opposition, this isn't just matt gaetz, lauren boebert, andy biggs, and others. there is a group of individuals including former white house chief of staff mark meadows, including trump's former budget director, including former republican senator jim -- including ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. there are a number of individuals plugged into maga world even if they are not part of trump's inner circle per se at least right now who want matt gaetz and andy biggs and crane and good and rosendale, want them and will reward them for what they're doing right now. we don't see it right now, and it's certainly not present among the house republican conference, but there will be applause for them at cpac or whatever. >> and rosendale went up and patted him on the shoulder i think after that happened, if it speaks to what we were talking about earlier, what rosendale was going to do. rosendale also got a call from former president trump earlier today urging him to vote for mccarthy, did not work. >> every description i've heard of those calls, though, i've heard trump describe as it being cursory or half heart. >> that's definitely what i heard earlier this week. i don't know about the calls today. but it does speak to what you're saying, jake, how the split and what's been created here and how it's kind of out of control. and -- >> it's going to be like this for every successive vote that kevin mccarthy has to get on the floor. >> kevin mccarthy is saying earlier they learned how to govern today and hours later -- >> i don't think mccarthy really understood what this was going to be like until this moment. and not only that he's only negotiating with himself at this point. he's not even in a position where he has to negotiate with the other chamber, the senatet or the democrats. i mean, it's going to be like this but so much worse every single time anything of substance comes before the house of representatives. and, yeah, mccarthy had to learn that, he did learn that. >> they thought they had a deal. they trusted people who can't be trusted. >> took the words right out of my mouth. >> the irony where they claim they can't trust kevin mccarthy. >> mccarthy people thought they had this figured out. >> and who did they think was going to vote -- they're gaveling back in so let's listen in. but i would love to know did they give names of who they thought were going to vote? >> some of them believed rosendale would go along with the present. >> would vote present. if he didn't he gave an angry andy biggs yell, i think. >> the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432 of which the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. [ applause ] the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212 . the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received two. the honorable andy biggs of the state of arizona has received two. no member-elect having received a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. >> we do now adjourn until noon on monday. >> will the gentleman repeat his motion? >> i move the house do now adjourn until noon monday. >> the question is on the motion to adjourn. all those in favor say -- the ayes have it. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed say no. in the opinion of the chair the noes have it. >> madam clerk, i ask for the yeas and nays. >> the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having risen the yeas and nays in order. >> he does not want to be humiliated. >> so this is what's going on right now. kevin mccarthy has lost for the 14th time in a row. he has never been closer in his life to winning the speakership of the house of representatives. but he needed either one more yea vote or one more present vote. and the two people voting present congress people boebert and gaetz, and the four people voting against him for candidate congress people biggs and good and rosendale would not play ball. so right now the lieutenant for mccarthy, congressman patrick mchenry of north carolina, who's done so much to wrangle votes for mccarthy has made a motion to adjourn congress until monday at noon eastern. and we are seeing if that happens. it seems likely that it will given the fact matt gaetz was asking for adjournment until monday and the mccarthy people were also asking for adjournment until monday. >> i would like to first give you my apologies -- >> i don't think our viewers know i had the 14th ballot down as the most likely for which mccarthy would become speaker. >> each of these six members had the possibility of making this happen, and they didn't. i'd like to add one other person to that, and that's kevin mccarthy himself. because we're here today in great part because of his trying to appease this group for a long, long time. it wasn't just the trip down to mar-a-lago to try to get trump's support. he has been playing what i would say is a dangerous game with this group. >> let's also just, i think, call this what it is, which is the most stunning defeat for kevin mccarthy yet through this process. >> they thought they had the votes. >> onto this floor with jubilation, patrick mchenry, his top vote counter, honestly the man who can count the votes in the house better than anyone gave the speech that sounded in many ways like a wedding toast like we were discussing, telling stories, cracking jokes about mccarthy only to see it fall apart because they clearly did not understand what was going on with these hard liners. and unlike all the other votes we have seen where over and over again he's said stubbornly we're going to figure it out, we're going to figure it out, we're going to go to the next thing, this one was supposed to be the end and it wasn't. >> and this was supposed to be an easy one. they have a very narrow majority. nothing will be easy. but of all the things they have to do, this one was supposed to be the easiest, picking a leader. what about the time of national crisis, what about raising the debt crisis, all things have to originate in the house of representatives. kevin mccarthy cannot -- they're not even congressmen and women at the vote. they're congressmen and women elect at the moment. we don't have a house of representatives at the moment. the fact we're having this conversation on january 6th and the republicans almost came to blows on the floor of the united states house where two years ago on this night more than 100 of them including the man who wants it be speaker, including his number two, and including his number three were trying to help donald trump steal an election. the irony of history on the anniversary of history, chaos on the anniversary of disaster -- >> i mean we know that that there is almost no respect for kevin mccarthy among that group. but it has been taken to such a level that it's even hard to fathom right now. and it's not just about kevin mccarthy now. it is about the institution. they're just messing with him. >> it's not as if he is -- >> i was just getting texts from some people who are in mccarthy's camp who still believe that even after what he just saw he will eventually become speaker. maybe matt gaetz just wants him to twist in the wind for two more days. >> but the fact this is -- they're making him walk over hot coals, swim with sharks, do everything he possibly can in the most painful, tortuous way to get to this point. >> i don't know if you guys can get this image on the camera here, but this is what -- i don't know if you can get the cameraman back at the -- this is an image put out by the mccarthy team. it says game time. this is put outright before 10:00 p.m. tonight. it is kevin mccarthy watching to the chamber. game time, 9:59 p.m. this is put up by mccarthy's team. >> he got screwed by these guys, and it's not the first time and it won't be the last. >> can i say also if you're being outsmarted by rosendale and matt gaetz. >> that's what happened. is outsmarted the same as just lied to? >> here's the thing when you have a narrow majority, any handful of people can screw up your best laid plans. >> we're missing something. we are missing something. we went from an appearance on shaun hannity tonight where lauren boebert and matt gaetz were calling for a speaker designate and then they came to the floor, something happened in between then. we don't know. there's something that happened clearly. >> they did change their votes to present. >> what changed in between at that exact moment -- >> they're expecting a third present vote and that did not materialize. so one of the other four should be the focus here because one of the other four clearly the indicated to the mccarthy team that they were willing to vote present, which would have handed him the gavel. >> all right, erin, we have a game of clue here. was it congressman rosendale in the house chamber with a false promise? back to you. >> a night of treachery and an image of what happened. just to give some context to this, that moment on the floor, i want to show everybody the video when you say mike rogers of alabama appearing to have to be physically restrained. >> right on the face. watch his face. >> wow. >> as kevin mccarthy is stonily walking away. >> this is treachery. >> first of all, i'd like to thank all of our viewers cnn's exclusive screening of snake's on a plane part 2. i've never seen the amount of treachery not since 1866 since preston brooks the kind of treachery at the capitol dome. >> was that on c-span? >> this is absolutely high drama, crazy stuff. i can't imagine how mccarthy and mchenry who i was heaping praise upon earlier for their skill today. >> but wait a second. >> somebody lied to them. >> right when it happened people were telling me rosendale who committed the first act of treachery but it looks like maybe they were all in it together. >> we can make all the jokes we want, and we will. this is despicable. this is a despicable display of a failure of leadership of exactly what the american people believe they voted against, and as john king mentioned two years to the day in some of the same hours, quite frankly, when some of these very strange extremists were trying to hold our country hostage. and every single time we've -- no, no, no, let me finish. every time we talk about back to the civil war, think about where our country was during the civil war in terms of the divisiveness. you want to talk about treachery. >> you know, guys, this is just despicable. >> can we go back two years, because kevin mccarthy stood on the floor of this house at this time and denounced the president of the united states for provoking an insurrection at the capitol. weeks later he went down and bended his knee to donald trump, and that was a reflection of weakness. and what we've seen all this week is weakness. and the reason people feel they can be treacherous is because they don't believe he is a strong leader. this would not have happened to nancy pelosi or any -- >> we would never see. we actually are seeing this. >> it's crazy we're seeing it play out in front of us. this is the beauty of the advanced technology we get to watch this on our phones. i've got to say something about mccarthy's leadership to piggyback on what's been said already. kevin mccarthy to a certain extent owns the shape of this conference because two years ago he knew that 147 of his members did not vote to certify the election, and he had an opportunity in those two years to go out and do what he did. he took a victory lap. if you guys remember primaried by an absolutely reasonable respectable conservative, chuck edwards, who knocked madison off from the primary and now you've got chuck edwards, not an election denier, not a conspiracy theorist. if kevin mccarthy had focused and tried to prevent the boeberts and gaetzs and biggses from getting nominations -- he should have worked to shape the party so it was responsible, full of responsible republicans not conspiracy theorists. >> do you think kevin mccarthy could go out and hand pick nominees in every -- >> you and i both know there are plenty of ways to shape the conference. >> listen, he did play a large part. that's why two days ago you saw the congressional leader -- yeah, it was an issue. his pack said he wouldn't do it and that garnered some support. what you're seeing tonight is a failure of epic proportion. this is an institution that's in crisis right now. it's a very sad moment for america. >> kevin mccarthy owns part of that. >> people are taking it seriously. i think some of these folks like rosendale, if you give somebody your word, you should stand behind it, and that's what kevin mccarthy expected tonight. and we'll find out who it was. and not just about attacking kevin mccarthy at this point. the house is in chaos. >> of course it is. >> what happens at this very moment? >> this thing is losing right now. in 11 votes, there's 11 people tend to cast. it's down by six, there's three minutes left in this vote. four republicans have voted no. i mean, we don't know what's going to -- by the way, human dignity for a minute. let me just say a word for the people who came back. wesley hunt came back. >> his baby is in the nicu. >> ken buck had a medical procedure. roger williams' wife had a stroke. all these people were lured back into this chaos by these people who committed this treachery. not a single shred of care for human decency. >> and that is the perspective. that's the right thing to bring up right now because ideally all this public service is about to be something bigger than yourself and your personal whim and collection of resentments. that's not where politics is today. kevin mccarthy has tried to triangulate his way to the speakership. he came close on that 14th ballot. as much as i love historic parallels i want to keep us focused on the moment. what we saw is historic. we've never seen that kind of cajoling. we haven't seen a speaker fight like this since 1855, since before the civil war. but we got to see in realtime the arm twisting, the betrayal, the treachery. that's an unbelievable display we saw. and it does show not the glory of democracy but how dysfunctional this institution right now. the fact he was betrayed by people should not be the headline in our era. >> in this moment they have a decision to make. they're going to be there. you've got to keep going to subsequent rounds. you can't trust when someone tells you they're going to do -- >> at this point whipping, vote counting, it means nothing because these people will obviously lie right to your face. >> this is why they wanted to adjourn. i just wanted to point out this afternoon kevin mccarthy stood before the cameras, and he said -- he said i think what we've seen this week is the republican caucus learn how to govern -- learn how to govern. and now we have this. >> you know what the headline in china is right now, democracy not so great. that's what the headline around the globe is right now. >> certainly all this spinning they were saying this shows, jake, how this isn't bad, this isn't chaos, this is democracy in action, this is good. and now here we are, this is not good. >> this is the moment. and now the motion to adjourn it hasn't failed yet, but it is failing 213 yeas, 216 nays right now for the motion to adjourn. what are you saying? >> 216-216. >> we'll see what happens. but in any case -- motion to adjourn just passed, just passed. let's -- that means of course for those watching at home so we have gone to a 14th ballot, and congressman kevin mccarthy, republican congressman kevin mccarthy has lost a 14th ballot. there will be a 15th ballot but not until monday. joining us now fresh off of voting against adjournment congressman jim hines of connecticut. congressman hunt, we're watching right now on the floor kevin mccarthy is raising his hand. hold on, something's going on. i'm sorry, congressman hines. we're going to go back to the floor of the house and try to figure out what's going on. because mccarthy and gaetz came to some sort of -- and now they're changing their votes. are they changing their votes to not adjourn. it looks like they're changing their votes to not adjourn. >> so this must means there's some movement, that they want to vote again. >> it looks as though maybe they made some sort of deal. i don't know if jim hines is still there. do you have any idea what's going on? >> yeah, so it's a realtime -- you can tell a couple things. number one a lot of glass got broken in the last 20 minutes. to be in that chamber when the chairman of the armed services committee had to be restrained from going after matt gaetz at that moment. and all the finger pointing i don't know if you noticed in the video but a staff member went after matt gaetz. that's unheard of on the house of representatives. i think what happened was they thought let's adjourn but then if we adjourn under these conditions, two more days of terrible press, come back on monday, who knows what happens. instead let's keep working on those four or five rebels and see if we can get them in the wee hours of this morning. i will tell you what happened in the last 20 minutes knocked down i think what they managed to build up today. you could hear obscenities, you could see the finger pointing. mccarthy, he may still win this thing but he's got a lot of rebuilding to do. >> this is madness because what happened is mccarthy's forces asked to adjourn until monday at noon and republicans fell in line, and then mccarthy who was smiling for the first time in an hour or so and holding up the finger indicating one, i don't know what that one means. one more time he's saying, okay, john king our reddant lip reader says he says one more time. looks like they're going to go to a 15th ballot this evening, congressman. and i don't know what to say because every time i say something everything on the floor changes completely. >> the holding up of the one, that's just the language on the floor for don't close the vote. if somebody yells, you know, one, or holds up a finger or voting or whatever, they'll not close the vote. that was designed to stop the vote from being closed which would have adjourned us until monday. they obviously made an on the fly decision to reverse their decision to adjourn. it's hard to believe that's not driven by the absolute catastrophic press that would have played out in the hours before 10:00 a.m. >> congressman tom cole, i think it's fair to call him a widely respected republican from oklahoma and a part of the establishment there, a part of the governing caucus such as it is just said according of our own ted barrett, i was shocked, i was told we had the votes when i came down here. someone hasn't been honest with the whips. the whips are shocked. they had their count pretty good. >> i just heard from a republican member who said there is a change. >> there is a change. >> so there's someone who has changed the vote. it may be gaetz, it could be one of the others. >> so here's interesting -- our team has just flagged this. this is tweet from a bloomberg photographer who managed to snap marjorie taylor greene trying to get rosendale on the phone, someone we're watching, on the phone with d.t. >> right before mccarthy ran up he was talking to matt gaetz, then he ran up and had a bunch of his deputies come with him and a whole bunch of mccarthy supporters came up and that's when he turned around and said we have enough, meaning we have enough to keep the house in session, and then he pulled another one of his allies apart and he said one more time. >> so i don't know if congressman hines is still here. thank you for bearing with us. i assume you are, because it doesn't look like you're going anywhere anytime soon. anyway, what it looks as though kevin mccarthy -- and boy, i'm reading a lot of kevin mccarthy and i'm reading a lot of tea leaves right now they want to not adjourn after all even though mccarthy forces are the ones that called for adjournment thinking they were doing so upon the desire of matt gaetz as well as i guess an effort to at least get a good weekend out of this. now it looks as though perhaps they think they do have the votes. or one of the two who voted present is going to vote for mccarthy. but since we don't know what's going to happen, congressman hines, let me ask you the big picture. have you ever seen anything remotely like this in your life as a legislature? >> i will tell you this is my top three of exciting moments on the floor. exciting moments on the floor don't happen all that often, but since we didn't adjourn what's going to happen is another vote. you're speculating they flipped somebody. they may have, but remember they came to the floor without certainty. they started the process at the beginning of this week without certainty. so they continue to believe they can apply pressure, the pressure of public glare or people back home making phone calls, so we will have another vote but i wouldn't necessarily assume it's a done deal right now. >> oh, i'm not assuming -- i assure you congressman, i'm not assuming anything is a done deal. right now we are seeing congressman matt gaetz talking about someone who was generally a compatriot of his although she's been firmly in team mccarthy this entire time. i saw a sardonic looking congressman crenshaw looking at gaetz and congressman brian maste, the former fellow florida republican talking to him briefly. it is interesting. and another thing, congressman, that i have to ask, the near fisticuffs that we saw and the cursing that some of your colleagues have told me was vociferously being made in matt gaetz's direction by his fellow republicans, an f-you matt gaetz was the basic idea, how often do you hear that kind of thing or see that kind of near coming to blows? >> you never see that. i haven't seen that kind of anger and rage on the floor since exactly two years ago when people when we came back about this hour actually to certify the presidential election, tempers were brutally hot there. i've never seen what i've seen tonight. again, it's going to take some time to rebuild that. at one point it got so hot a lot of matt gaetz's and lauren boebert's compatriots harris and biggs went over to provide a shield to them. >> congressman, thanks so much. i'm going to go to melanie zanona right now who has reporting on matt gaetz. >> reporter: just into cnn sources tell me and my colleague matt gaetz has agreed to flip his vote to yes. that is why you see another stunning turn of events on the floor. they somehow got a deal with gaetz and got an agreement for him. and now they're voting against the motion to adjourn so they can move to another ballot for speaker. because some deal was worked out with gaetz. that is the deal on the house floor right now. of course it all came down to him in the speaker's vote. he voted present. you saw that remarkable dust up on the floor involving gaetz. it appears in the moments since maybe cooler heads prevailed. we don't know the details why he agreed to flip, but we are hearing that is the case, jake. >> all right, melanie zanona and who was her colleague? those two reporting. we just underestimated the gentleman's love of showmanship. >> well, i don't know -- >> why not? >> assuming it happens. >> our reporting is that the impression that mccarthy and his vote counters and getters had was that matt rosendale of montana was going to be the one -- >> going to vote present, though. >> who voted present. he was the one who surprised everybody. what we just saw the reporting that annie and melanie just gave us we saw that happen with our own eyes. you described it the moment when kevin mccarthy was once again talking to matt gaetz and realized that he had him move from present to yes, which means that he didn't have to adjourn, and he ran down to the well with the red card saying i don't want to vote to adjourn, let's change he said one more time, meaning we can vote for the speaker one more time, a 15th time because he believes now that matt gaetz who you're seeing there talking to sheila and jackson lee, very much across the aisle -- >> in and of itself is an interesting conversation. >> they're ending the vote to adjourn, which failed spectacularly. >> boebert, roy -- >> what we expect to happen right now after this is we expect a mccarthy supporter to rise. they ask for what purpose does the individual from wherever stand, and he or she will nominate kevin mccarthy on the 15th ballot and we'll see what happens. i'm not going to predict anything. we'll see what happens on the 15th ballot. but certainly kevin mccarthy appears to believe 15 will be the charm. 15 will be the charm. does anybody want to put money on it? no. >> i will say that i mean the wild thing that has been happening over the last however many minutes in addition to all of this chaos, trump has been calling around. and he called in and that photo kasie was talking about trying to reach matt rosendale who seemed to not want to talk to him, rosendale didn't flip. gaetz went back and changed his vote to a yes on mccarthy. so, i mean, we will probably see -- if it's mccarthy trump will try to take credit for it all. it's not entirely clear he made anything move on the floor. >> we talked about gaetz being a showman and wanting to grab the attention and the spotlight. i don't think there's anyone who is more interested in that than the former president of the united states. >> yeah. so as the motion to adjourn is gaveled to a close, we are waiting now -- >> the yeas are 155. the nays are 279. the motion is not adopted. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas arise? >> madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house. [ applause ] >> the eyes of the world and the eyes of america are on this body right now. what america needs, what this body needs is a lot less talk and a lot more action. and at the direction of the republican conference, i advance the name of kevin mccarthy as the next speaker of house of the 118th congress. [ applause ] >> for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> madam clerk, i rise to say, wow. [ applause ] and madam clerk, i rise to say to place into nomination for election into the position for the speaker of the house of representatives the esteemed and wonderful leader of house democrats mr. hakeem jeffries of new york . friends, our nation's first president unanimously elected by the electoral college in 1789 keeps watch over us every single day right here in this chamber. and in his inaugural address to our new nation, he spoke of and i, quote, a form of government for the security of our union and the advancement of our happiness. security of our union and advancement of our happiness. but 234 years later and after 14 rounds of balloting and a ridiculous war for personal power across the aisle, we the people still find ourselves without a constituted government. our security neglected and the advancement of anything impossible. and happiness, suffice to say americans are unhappy by the nonsense and the dysfunction playing out on this floor. particularly those who need us to the most, who rely on our offices, and i mean every single one of our offices for services and support. not to mention the unhappy gop and democratic ranking members and chairs of the house foreign affairs committee, our armed services committee, and the intel committees -- >> no offense to the democratic congressman from minnesota dean philips, but we have some fresh reporting from kaitlan collins right now from a certain phone call made to matt gaetz. please tell us. >> i want to note that whatever that was was playing out on the house floor. the former president was watching for kevin mccarthy to secure the speakership. when it appeared he was not going to get it tonight i'm told he called andy biggs and matt gaetz speaking with them as it was going on. part of that message i believe was urging them to wrap this up tonight. of course we talked about whether his calls have had a lot of influence on this race so far, but it does people to the level of involvement he's watching this and as it's playing out trying to place calls to these members and trying to get them to vote for kevin mccarthy. >> okay, interesting. >> history books are going to have an interesting time with january 6th 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years from now. one of the entries will be donald trump two years to the day after he tried to steal an american election called in from the very same house of chamber where kevin mccarthy was trying to help him steal that election, to help kevin mccarthy become speak of the house and leader of the house republican party. >> to paratraz congressman philips, wow. i mean what a moment we're in. but i mean it's also very much like trump to -- first of all, he is now wrapped up with kevin mccarthy. he also does not want to lose. >> yeah. let's listen back in to congressman philips. >> one of the very finest of those americans is hakeem jeffreys of the great state of new york, and it is the honor of a lifetime to place his name into nomination for speaker of the house. [ applause ] the reading clerk will call the roll. >> so here we go with the 15th ballot. and while we wait for the readers to come forward, and while we wait -- there it is. alma adams, the congresswoman from north carolina. the voting has begun. we are waiting to watch, obviously, some key members of congress. the same six that we were watching last time. biggs, boebert, krain, gaetz, good, rosendale. right now all that is needed is one of the noes to vote present or one of the presents to vote yes, and kevin mccarthy certainly seems to think that that is going to happen, jamie. >> jake, just to follow up on what john king was saying about trump calling in for context, biggs, boebert, gaetz, good, rosendale were among the republicans who voted to sustain one or both of the objections to the 2020 election two years ago after congress came back into session. >> yeah, well, so is kevin mccarthy and steve scalise and elise, the entire house republican leadership. >> and here we are. >> sit a number of individual who is lied about the election getting promoted and they are being helped after being -- having their journey complicated by people who are the most extreme elements of what happened two years ago today. >> yeah, well, and i just imagine -- i'm still stuck on what we just witnessed play out in public on the house floor. i mean, the images -- we're starting to get some of the still images of that video that we've been playing on a loop where mike rogers was physically restrained from going after matt gaetz. you heard jim hiems say there was potentially someone else who went after matt gaetz on the floor, that obscenities were hurled. this is the kind of thing that we nowadays theorize happens in politics. it used to happen on the floor back in some of the types of years we've been talking about when things like this hand on speaker's ballots in the civil war era. but it really spilled out into public view here, and i think just provides a very ugly preview of what -- assuming kevin mccarthy can -- >> i'm sorry, let's listen to andy biggs. >> jeffreys. >> it's 2-1. >> mccarthy. biggs. present. >> andy biggs voting present. and if everyone votes the same way this time the way they voted last time, with the exception of andy biggs, then kevin mccarthy will finally on the 15th ballot win the speakership. let's listen in. we still have some more votes. we have lauren boebert to listen to. >> mccarthy. bishop of georgia. jeffreys. bishop of north carolina, mccarthy. blumenauer? jeffreys. rochester, jeffreys. boebert. >> present. >> so lauren boebert votes present, which is what she did last time. again, if matt gaetz continues to vote present or if any other of the holdouts switch, that's it. it does look, i have to say -- although i -- i hesitate to make any predictions, but if i was kevin mccarthy right now, which is a tough thing to imagine, but if i were, i would think, okay, finally we got all of the dominos in place. >> and you know, it's funny, we were talking about the unprecedented things we saw play out on the floor. mccarthy has been careful with how he's conducted himself on the floor. >> until an hour ago. >> until about an hour ago. and to see the top republican leader in the house, which he is regardless of the fact that he's not speaker, he's still the top republican, he scrambled down to that dais with that red card in his hand with, you know, followed by his leaders to try to change the vote at the last second. to see him scramble like that on his own behalf was remarkable to me, and i think sort of sets up the moment relatively nicely, which is to say maybe this chaos is finally -- but it's chaos that's going to finish it out. >> and it's what comes after this. again, again, this is difficult because they have a narrow majority. as it was difficult for nancy pelosi but not this difficult. and i think that's another thing that we're seeing. we will see how long this lingers. kevin mccarthy, before he was humiliated again, said republicans have learned how to govern through this experience. he was wrong before vote 14. maybe they have figured something out now. but i think the flip side of this is when we get to the hard stuff, the policy, not just the leadership, the policy, we've also seen the republican dysfunction and chaos and mistrust and distrust and animosity and an mouse. we've also seen the new democratic leadership on the floor. as of this early days, they have their act together. i was about to use another word. they have their act together. jefferies is the one being nominated, but mostly pete aguilar his deputy, you saw congressman phillips. we heard clyburn earlier today, who is moving on from leadership. we've heard the new, younger generation of democratic leadership, they remember january 6th very well. they are well organized against this republican majority, which is an interesting contrast, because these republicans are getting off on the wrong foot. we'll see if they can fix it. sometimes you can put it behind you. >> that's what we were saying. the ugliness we're seeing today is going to permeate everything we're going to see. >> what you said about the democrats, it's an important appointment. our colleague was texting me saying even on the 15th vote, which nobody expected to happen, the democrats had a prepared speech ready to go. dean phillips was ready to go. i don't think wow was in the remarks, but that was warranted. >> i also just want to note that today is about to become tomorrow. it's 11:57 practically on the east coast. and so kevin mccarthy, if he does get the votes to become speaker, it will happen on january 7th and not january 6th. >> it was 3:42 a.m. on january 7th when mike pence finally gavelled the congress out. >> i think it coincides. i think it's basically -- >> i think this is the beginning of what we will be seeing a congress on the house side that is going to be marching forward in a completely different direction than even their colleagues on the senate side, and it's part of what happens when you have a bunch of people who don't think that the last presidential election happened and they took a whole different set of lessons from that. and they were emboldened by it because they don't think that they lost. and we'll see what that looks like when it comes to governance, but from the looks of it, it's going to be a lot of chaos. >> it's going to be -- >> and it's going to be run by -- >> every win from now on is -- >> yeah -- >> let's listen in, hold on one sec. >> craig? >> we're listening for eli crane, which is next. >> crane? present. >> eli crane also voted present. so there's more of your pad if needed. you know, this is what they needed to do last time before congressman -- >> the only two people who did not vote present or for mccarthy would be good, bob good, and matt rosendale at this point. >> yeah, assuming everybody votes. >> so of the holdouts. >> assuming everybody going forward votes the way they did on the 14th, this vote will end with kevin mccarthy as speaker. >> biggs has not voted present before. that's significant. that comes after that call with trump. >> biggs and crane both changed. >> that's enough. even if all the rest of the holdouts were to vote no, even if they decided they weren't going to vote president anymore rs that's all he needs, three present to get the gavel here. >> yeah, so it does look as though -- i mean it does feel, i have to say, a little
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