where he has to negotiate with the other chamber, the senatet or the democrats. i mean, it s going to be like this but so much worse every single time anything of substance comes before the house of representatives. and, yeah, mccarthy had to learn that, he did learn that. they thought they had a deal. they trusted people who can t be trusted. took the words right out of my mouth. the irony where they claim they can t trust kevin mccarthy. mccarthy people thought they had this figured out. and who did they think was going to vote they re gaveling back in so let s listen in. but i would love to know did they give names of who they thought were going to vote? some of them believed rosendale would go along with the present. would vote present. if he didn t he gave an angry andy biggs yell, i think. the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432 of which the
0 now they re going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let s listen in. gaetz. present. present. he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed present votes don t hurt. it s at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let s listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries. david scott, jeffries. kevin mccarthy walks off the he does not look happy. kevin mccarthy walks off the floor i m sorry, walks up the floor rather. matt gaetz, he needed him to vote yes not present. he s trying to convince him. he appears to be trying to convince matt gaetz to vote yes and not present. also, right, if he could get lauren boebert to change from present we haven t seen