covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that s a change from what you ve heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let s go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters are b
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
trying to appease other people. they tried to present it as him being, you know, a bold leader on this issue. i think in reality he knows that he s losing and donald trump is setting the tone on this issue, and i don t see that changing any time soon. we ll certainly watch the fallout in the weeks and months ahead. msnbc political analyst brendan buck, thank you as always. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. right now millions of americans are getting blasted by a heat wave. when you show the weather app it shows the middle finger emoji. so hat in maine the lobsters will be getting in pots just to cool down. [ applause ] it s so hot in new york this week the rats are wearing crop tops. [ laughter ] it is so hot in south dakota, kristi noem s dog good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very going to be a very hot wednesday, june 19th. jooernt. we ll bring in the former communications
both desantis and haley here are critical. i mean, obviously trump has had a massive lead in the polling. haven t had a lot of polling out of iowa since mid-december, however, and we may see more this week. we ll see if anything has changed, but the real question for desantis can he reel in trum? i don t know if he could reel him into single digits that would be a huge night. for haley expectations were lower. if she were able to jump over desantis and do a surprise second place finish even if she was far back of trump that would be a pig night for her so as much as the policy and the attacks and the juxtaposition, it s the expectation-setting that you ll hear out of the campaigns this woke. that s interesting. i also want to get you guys both on this. president biden is headed to south carolina today, and he s going to be doing giving a speech at mother emmanuel church. south carolina is jim clyburn, his words we know carry weight with the biden team. he helped save biden s primar
about biden s standing with black voters right now. let me play this. i m very concerned, and i have sat down with president biden. my problem is that we have not been able to break through that maga wall in order to get to people exactly what this president has done. alice, what do you hear in that answer from cliburn? well, it s interesting. we re hearing the same thing from him as we eheard from former president barack obama, and their concerns about biden not being able to connect with black voters, also his panic voters. he s losing support amongst them, but the reality is they can blame it on the maga wall all they want. it s not the maga wall they need to break through. it s the perception by the people. biden is on the water on many cross-tabs with regard to inflation, the economy, security, education. those are issues that are real, and despite the fact that the