that was was playing out on the house floor. the former president was watching for kevin mccarthy to secure the speakership. when it appeared he was not going to get it tonight i m told he called andy biggs and matt gaetz speaking with them as it was going on. part of that message i believe was urging them to wrap this up tonight. of course we talked about whether his calls have had a lot of influence on this race so far, but it does people to the level of involvement he s watching this and as it s playing out trying to place calls to these members and trying to get them to vote for kevin mccarthy. okay, interesting. history books are going to have an interesting time with january 6th 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years from now. one of the entries will be donald trump two years to the day after he tried to steal an american election called in from the very same house of chamber where kevin mccarthy was trying to help him steal that election, to help kevin mccarthy become
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