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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
his critics, though, ask one simple question, and i quote one of them. who the hell is an unelected, failed minister to tell any of us what to do? well, that s what i hope to discover in this conversation, at a moment when anything could change, and almost certainly will in politics. david frost, lord frost, welcome to political thinking. thank you. great to be here. well, let s begin with what is on everybody s mind. your old friend, the man you advised and whether he, borisjohnson, can and should be our next prime minister. what do you make of the speculation? well, boris is remarkable guy, and he can do things that other people can t. so i don t find it at all surprising that we re getting this sort of noise about, will he come back? could he do the job? i think the party needs to think quite hard before it, it kind of goes down this road, you know? who knows? it s not really for me to say. but, you know, there was a reason why he left office and there s a reason why
investors. that s why there s action in disney today. the trend is your friend, looking at the bigger picture. we just got weekly jobless claims in the last hour. how does this fit into the bigger picture? every week this is a tally of the first time claims for unemployment benefits. so it gives us a feel of what s happening in layoffs, still low. 196,000 a little bit more than expected but didn t expect many. this is still low in terms of layoffs. so outside of those kind of key names that you hear day in and day out in tech and media. overall, bosses seem to be more concerned about holding onto workers in 2023 than laying them off. one thing we ll be watching closely about the tech layoffs, some people maybe if you re still getting a paycheck for the next six months you might not file for unemployment benefits so the tech layoffs may not be
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