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
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votes and now they come up one short. what gives here in your opinion. yeah, i mean, i was watching fox all night, too. i saw hannity just like bret was talking about with matt gaetz and lauren boebert on. they were talking about kevin being the speaker designee. they seemed very positive. they said everybody was going to be happy. i think we re getting there, just taking a little longer. there s some growing pains along the way. we ll be more unified. we have retired nancy pelosi and we ll come together as a party it just may take a little longer than expected. you say take longer and we re getting there is it something that could happen in the next 15 minutes and they start the 15th vote or do you think it s better for everyone to take the weekend off and come back monday fresh with maybe a new perspective? yeah, i hear what you re saying, trace. i mean if you have the momentum why don t you keep the vote going. i think if they feel like they can t get the vote tonight, let wes