and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don t know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they were pretty close to calling the vote in adjourning. they have the singular verse of people there right now. here is what will happen later tonight if they impacted elect kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house, there will be a wall and they will bring an escort committee and they will escort him into the chamber will be very ceremonial, much like bringing in the president of th united states into t
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
tonight on the reidout we have got to get to proceedings. there has to be somewhere we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some confidence that government can function and that we can elect a president of the united states. it s been exactly two years since the january 6th insurrection. and watching nancy pelosi s leadership in a crisis is a stark contrast to how we currently have no speaker of the house at all. and while kevin mccarthy may have gained votes today, he has now lost the speaker s race 13 times. not exactly inspiring confidence, and another glaring example of his failures as a leader. and on january 6th, we would be remiss if we didn t mention mr. fist pump, josh hawley, lucas kuntz, the democrat who announced he s running against hawley, joins me tonight. and we begin tonight with the two-year anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. when 64 days after election day a mob of donald trump loyalists stormed the
will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the january 6th, 2024 that s a pretty i don t know if i would bet for him to last a year? i take that that in the opposite. i think i probably would, yes. given the fact that, in an hour, we are going to have the 14th vote, i mean i m not a betting lady but have a good weekend, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are now just one hour away from the house of representatives coming back to the session at 10 pm eastern, this evening, to potentially end this now historically an embarrassing of the house. after four days, and 13 failed rounds of voting, republican leader kevin mccarthy has finally managed to move the needle, bringing all but six of his detractors to his side. mccarthy needs just two more opponents if that happens, he could win this thing he s already made some very good progress. we will come back tonight. i believe to finish this once and for all. but if he can t no
they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st