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
place work for everybody. so you can see the circle of lawmakers around gaetz and boebert and so far there s no movement. we re waiting on the official word, the official tally and that will come out when the clerk makes that announcement. it s interesting bret because earlier on sean hannity you had matt gaetz saying listen i couldn t think of anything else to ask for making it appear that kevin mccarthy really did give up the ranch to get those final votes. yeah. and what we ve heard so far, the plan was was that this was going to be smooth, that the plane was going to land, that they were going to get mccarthy s the speaker s gavel and then they were going to move on to the rules package. that could be a little stickier because, from what we ve heard, it s not all in stone as far as written down what they have promised behind the scenes. and that may be part, you know, that may be problematic voting on the rules package. but they ve got to get the