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 and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have matt g
frustration. a number of people saying they re poed. there was a real whip effort on boebert and gaetz. they could not get them to come off present. there was no moving the other four. and now there is a question whether they have the votes to adjourn. to chad s point, you know, we should point out that there is some credit to be given for democrats holding the line almost every single ballot. there was only one ballot where they got 211 and that s because representative trone from maryland had surgery but they came back the next ballot and they ve been 212 every single ballot. and there have been a couple of others where mccarthy took the lead. but you have to get the majority of all of the numbers in the house. now the question is, if they don t adjourn, are they going to have a 15th ballot that does exactly the same thing? they re working still. it s sort of like a rush in a
they re requested, those favoring a vote by yays and yeas nays are ordered. laura: they re waiting, let s go back to chad pergram. it appears they re going to continue chad. the problem is kevin mccarthy made significant progress today. he doesn t have the votes. he is one vote short. so in this circumstance you can do one of two things. you can go immediately to a 15th vote or you have to then go to an adjournment. you can do one of two things. so right now what they re doing is they are moving to adjourn. this requires a simple majority to adjourn. republicans so far have been able to adjourn when they ve needed to do so. they did so earlier today. they did so a couple of days ago. patrick mchenry the republican from north carolina has asked them to go out until noon on monday but then again the first order of business at that point would either be to adjourn or to take that 15th ballot. but they are short right now.
adams. jeffries. adderholt. mccarthy. aguilar. jeffries. alford. mccarthy. allen. mccarthy. laura: so as the vote goes through the as right now we should point out that we are waiting for a couple of key names to come up, as you know them, waiting for the bs lauren boebert which is lauren boebert and andy biggs, the c andy crain and the gs, bob goode and matt gaetz. and so you re going through this chad pergram and picking out those key names because if when we get to the gs matt gaetz says kevin mccarthy looks like they ll the votes. three things to watch for what s the attendance, did anybody leave. see if there are any changes in