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
because it was only hours ago matt gaetz was saying if you want to drain the swamp the last thing you want to do is put the biggest alligator back in there all week. we interviewed him on our show and he said no. no, no, no, i m not going to vote mccarthy. he voted present. i want to go through these bret to find out any surprises. we had ken buck a question mark he voted for mccarthy. we had matt gaetz who voted present, lauren boebert voted present. andy biggs voted for jordan, bob goode voted for jordan, eli crain voted for andy biggs and matt rosendale voted for andy biggs. any surprises you thought going into this that one of those people might have voted present or for kevin mccarthy? because they stuck to their guns. they did. crain was one that i was told was possibly going to vote present. the other three were kind of never kevin, in the never kevin crowd and we re not going to vote for mccarthy one-way or