will happen in one hour s time when the house does come back into session. and whether they would actually have yet another ballot vote. he even even if that vote happens, lehe will not have the 218 votes he needed to be elected because some have flown home for various family issues and the holdouts are not there and this agreement as he acknowledged on the call has not yet been reached so he still wants to adjourn this chamber and allow for time for negotiations but needs the votes to adjourn and it is not clear if he has that. we ll see what he has in a matter of minutes. let s get more perspective. joining me now mike lawler. he supported kevin mccarthy on all of these ballots. congressman-elect, thank you for coming in. what happens on the conference call just now. i m not going to get into the details, except to say that i do believe that progress is being
is whether there is a deal. and if there is a deal and ten of the 20 move, i think that people stay with him. if there is no deed and we have another vote of 20, i think people will going to start looking. including you? including me. there is a point in time where kevin is going to lose credibility because he can t make this deal. reporter: and that is the big concern for mccarthy right now which is why it is still not 100% the ballot vote is happening at noon. there has been some talk about adjourning the house again. maybe for a few hours, maybe longer than that to give them more time to negotiate. they would need a vote of the full house, majority of the full house, 218 members to do that. dpk democrats will not support. and they could lose no more than four members to get the 218 votes to adjourn. so the difficult complications at a critical time for mccarthy, very uncertain how it plays out.
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who can deliver results? represent kevin hern can do just that, and i am proud to enter his name into the nomination, and i hope that some of you join me. thank you, and i yield back. [ applause ] the reading clerk will call the roll. all right. we are about to watch history being made. kevin mccarthy running for speaker a ninth time. this is the ninth ballot. if he wins on this vote, which i do not think he will, he will tie the multiple ballot vote of 100 years ago in 1923, but we do not anticipate that he s going to win in this ballot on this ninth ballot, and, in fact,
and the suspect in the death of four college students in idaho, and we want we want to begin with manu raju. it s happening by the minute now on the hill. do we know where negotiations stand? do we know if they re going to reconvene today? or maybe punt again? that is actually the big question of the hour. whether or not they ll actually come back at noon and have that fourth ballot vote. this is a very tricky proposition for kevin mccarthy and his allies. the concern is that the opposition could grow in that fourth ballot. if that were to happen, this could be problematic to ultimately get to the 218 votes. that s why behind the scenes, there have been serious negotiations between a handful of key emissaries to kevin