they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st
given what we ve seen. we have five of the six holdouts one of them was willing to budge invoke president. assuming block and gosar no reason not to, assuming they both continue to vote for mccarthy. it comes down to the met gaetz vote. it can t be present. it has to be for mccarthy. if he gets that and everything else holds, mccarthy is the speaker. if he doesn t he is not. i just want to see if ali vitali it is with us. ali, we will leave buck is voting for mccarthy. he was not there when the vote came along. what is the deal with gosar? steve is fairly confident that there s no reason gosar would go back on his 13th ballot vote which was for mccarthy. so that brings this all down to matt gates in the end. yes, i also agree with steve to believe there s no reason for gosar to go back on the
then matt, gates who was sitting there as my executive producer says, looking like the most important person in the house of representatives right now. the final name to listen for is ryan think. e his name is going to be called momentarily. they are going to go pretty quick. they are going to start calling up the names. you will hear other names. but, here comes. ali, would you have? my colleague haley talbot, is texting with someone who is right near that group. and they are not even sure what he is going to do when she asks, what do they think is happening with matt gates? this is truly in matt gates s head. and they re about to let listen in as we get to the final votes. we get t the final votes. and you can see lauren boebert next to matt gates.