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
Sean welcome to hannity, history and capitol hill eight republican lawmakers joining al 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Mccarthy will not seat the speaker sheet again. Now sources are telling me at this hour that some House Republicans have been in contac with and has started an effort to draft former president donal trump to be the next speaker an i have been told that President Trump might be open to helping the Republican Party at least i the short term if necessary. If its needed. Here is former speaker mc carthy earlier tonight, lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight me be in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. I will have the Conference Pick someone else. I think today was a political decision by the democrats. I think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. They just started removing people from committee and they just started doing other things. My fear is the institution felt today. You cant do the job
comer? mccarthy. connolly? jeffries. correa? jeffries. costa. jeffries. courtney. jeffries. crane. present. [applause] crawford. mccarthy. mccarthy. a let s clarify a few things but yet just heard eli crane voting present at least we have laura boebert who maintain her volpi to be of any bench you changed his vote from jordan to present and now you have eli crane who changed his vote. this bodes very well for kevin m
Mitigates. expects he s putting people in jeopardy. s comments represent that the behavior of weak men, not leaders. and after a gop conference meeting today, republicans are ditching mccarthy. expects most republicans ignoring that brouhaha appeared. gop members instead chiding reporters. what you guys really need to do is focus on the issues that america cares about. expects republicans are whitewashing the riot. expects it s is all about the acquisition of power. two the twice impeached so-called president of the united states. one city pond public hearing in june. any night that s out there will be thrown in the direction of kevin mccarthy. mccarthy is already up refused
Ridiculousness that i have not seen for a long time. house republicans say that they are rallying around kevin m ccarthy tonight, suggesting that there was daylight between parties thought privately about the january 6 attack of a capital and publicly. we report from capitol hill. kevin mccarthy saying one thing in public and another red private about the right that caught on tape. at mccarthy worrying his inflammatory language that some people were using before and after january 6. it is too high, the country is too crazy. i do not want to go back and think that we caught something or we miss something. on the same recording mccarthy called out by names gop alabama representative mo brooks with his frederick just before the friday at. today is that that american patriots start taking down name and respects he also targeted