Number of 217 votes to win the gavel. Reporter do you think you have the votes on the floor today . We feel really good. We need to get a speaker today. We feel really good about where we are at. Steve kornacki will be with me to break down the vote from the big board. The latest nbc reporting on the breaking news that President Biden will leave tonight for israel and jordan to get humanitarian aid moving into gaza, Work On Releaing the hostages, and how gaza will look if hamas is removed. Hamas released a video of a hostage. The question, is it a signal that the terror group might be willing to deal . Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A big day where the house is in session and ohio congressman jim jordan is the man of the hour. The Judiciary Chairmans bid for speaker is gaining steam within the House Republican conference. He is closing in on the 217 votes he needs to win. The battle for a man long viewed as the leader of House Revolutionaries to become second in
quorum vote, if all 434 on a vote for speaker vote for a candidate, the magic number again would be 218 to get elected speaker. that more immediate dynamic that you are talking about right now potentially on a motion to adjourn, it s going to be very interesting to see how this is understood by this group of 20 republicans who have refused to back mccarthy, who backed jordan on the third ballot. if they view it as mccarthy needing another day to try to twist arms, to try to make deals, as almost a desperate move by mccarthy to buy time, that motion to adjourn vote becomes a test from these 20, how committed are they to basically finishing off kevin mccarthy? the vote wouldn t officially be for speaker. but the stakes would be mccarthy s best chance of becoming speaker. if his side thinks getting
morning. what you ll see transpire today, sheryl johnson, the clerk of the house, she s going to gavel out the 117th congress, gavel in the 118th. and since there is no rules passed yet, she has the authority to only do two things, call a quorum vote, we all show up and vote present on the floor and then second call the speaker vote. she only has the authority to call the speaker vote if nobody gets ss ss to 218, call it a se time, a third time, until someone makes a privileged motion to adjourn, which requires 218 votes. a lot of it is uncertain as to how it is going to play out today. it is dependent on some of the detractors still asking for more concessions by speaker-elect mccarthy. if it doesn t happen today, how long could it take? who knows. it has taken six months in the history of our country a few times, right. we just don t know the answer to that. i think it is going to be interesting to see in the first round what the vote tally is. the second round apparently a
there was another occasion in congress where earl landgrebe voted no on a quorum vote. it was literally a vote where you had to say you were physical physically there in the room. he voted he was in the room and he voted no as in no, i m not really here. i mean, that s like somebody calling role, buehler, buehler, not here. asked afterwards why he voted no on the quorum vote, he said he could not recall exactly, but i m sure at the time it seemed quite imperative to him. earl landgrebe has gone down in history as a kind of ripley s believe it or not character from the watergate era because of stuff like that about him, but also in large part because of a specific interview he did about nixon at the height of watergate with the south bend tribune newspaper in his home state of indiana. the week of nixon s resignation he told the south bend tribune,
it was literally a vote where you just had to say you were physically there in the room so they knew there were enough people in the room to do congress stuff, tike votes. he was in the room and he voted no. as in, no, i m not really here. i mean, that s like somebody calling roll. bueller, bueller? not here. when asked afterwards why he voted no on the quorum vote, he said he could not recall exactly. but i m sure at the time it seemed quite imperative to him. earl landgrebe has gone down in history as a kind of ripply s believe it or not character in the watergate era because of stuff like that. and in large part at the height of watergate with the south bend tribune newspaper in his home state of indiana. the week of nixon s resignation he said, quote, don t confuse me with the facts, i have got a