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getting. and now, someone, else at least two republicans have voted nay. there s one democrat that has not voted nay yet. that vote has not cast. so we will have to see what happens. there s six and a half minutes left in this little. once, again it s going to be really close. if the yays don t win it, something can happen. someone s gonna have to put in a motion to adjourn till tomorrow at noon. if that doesn t pass, they re gonna have to keep on voting. as you ve seen from everyone s body language, it s not clear where the movement is coming from. unclear. steve kornacki, you want to weigh in? yes. just keep in mind the. matt almost all the democrats voted if the democrats pick up that 212 no vote, now you have three republicans in the no count. if it ends up to, 12 democrats, then five republicans voting no thinks this. because that would be a 217 217 tie.
this vote the yea are 216. the nay are 214. accordingly, the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until noon tomorrow. they adjourn until noon tomorrow. this begins again at noon. sorry, charlie, i interrupted you. what does the speaker do now? i think or want to be speaker. what kevin mccarthy is going to do is they will go into sessions and try to make concessions. you hear some people say that they maybe have moved a few people. they have to move a lot of people. by my count, they need 16, maybe 17 since sparks is a present vote, they need her back. let s say they move ten people. they still have six or seven that they need. they can only lose four votes. it seems to me they still aren t
a little bit of growing unity. we ll find out the next 17 outvoted members are gonna do. interestingly, two of those came off the ye column. you ve got all the democrats who voted voted nay, right now, the nays have it. here s the other interesting thing. if they cannot adjourn, they have to go to another roll call vote. you either adjourn or go to roll call vote on speaker. interesting thing here is, you ve got three groups, you never kevin, see of the democratic caucus, and then you would always kevin people. so the interesting thing is hakeem jeffries, and the democrats, as we heard slotkin say, said no, we re not gonna help me out here. we re not gonna let you adjourn, we want you to force this question. right now you have three names, i think if you got two more nays, and that does it. i guess they re holding the vote open, but again, this is so strange, don edwards here s the gavel from the clerk, let s hear what she has to say. so the republicans are mad,
0 i don t think voting tonight is productive. let people work more. reporter: in a positive sign from mccarthy, some of the opponents came out sounding positive, including scott perry of pennsylvania sounded that he said talks had been productive as well as congressman chip roy. they had been asking for more sway over the speakership. some of them had asking to encourage mccarthy s super pac to stay out of certain primaries. they did agree to do that. that may have won some. his path, very narrow. there are at least four republicans who are almost certainly going to vote against him. they absolutely will not vote for kevin mccarthy, including matt gaetz. he can only look forward to lose four republican votes. one more says they will not vote for him, mccarthy cannot get there, which is why these talks are so critical, expected to continue through tonight until tomorrow. the house reconvenes at that time. he had given up a lot to get the votes he has gotten thus far. how much mo