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and eli crane has voted president. review c of the bottom of your screen now. up next we are waiting for the votes of matt gaetz and bob good . matt gaetz we are told will switch his boat from present th kevin mccarthy and that we believe would be enough to put them over the top. is not a fair assessment quick. we have to go through the entire roll call and see how many total people have cast ballot by name. that is the process every singl time pretty don t know what the numbers going to be until you get to the end of the rollcall and because we had that vote to adjourn where they were pretty close to calling the vote in adjourning. they have the singular verse of people there right now. here is what will happen later tonight if they impacted elect kevin mccarthy a speaker of the house, there will be a wall and they will bring an escort committee and they will escort him into the chamber will be very ceremonial, much like bringing in the president of th united states ....
The calculations to say, wait a second, what does that do to us. it appears everybody who within the chamber so far appears to b in the chamber right now. i am wondering if there is any kind for rehash after this. lesson come up we need to be able to count better if we are going to go forward. we have a very small majority and we need toward 18 votes to get anything done. there s got to be a reckoning for the house republican members . 100%. and that job up with, to jason ....
The question, jason. i think the country will be better for it but i m glad they went through the process. i think it is going to be more open and it will be more transparent and more accountabl and members are going to have t work harder. i think that is all good. one area where they gave up too much is to vacate the chair. verbally person ethic the threshold has to be higher than one met. democrats also get the play by these rules. democrats again vacate the chai with just one person. there are some real ramifications but i don t know how many times they have to do this vote but i think that threshold should be at 25 or something for me personally. i think the democrats behind th scenes are going to be elated with this. it s going to open up their ability to offer up amendments and beyond the record for thing that they ve never been able to do under nancy pelosi. interesting. let s bring in bret baier. he was talking about a motion t ....
Members of congress with their children and there. i know what this 123 in the morning on the east coast on th capitol hill, but this is a big day. we need some young people and children there to make this thing festive, like you write your two daughters and. jason. i think that is exactly what they should be doing. it is great. they have a lot easier time staying up at 1:00 a.m. then their parents do. nc poulos he brought back earmarks but that is what makes the medicine go down. that one points up from trillio had something like 7500 earmark and part of the commitment that ....
Present, you had bogert and gai speed you have the total universe of the house. dallas in the virginia passed away so the last vote, boebert and gait spirit and it makes at for hundred 17 is the magic number. five voting present gets you to for hundred 29, so half up that plus one is 215. 215 will be the magic number right now if everything stays the same. it is fascinating. i want to bring in the former congressman jason chave at spea jason, you ve got me fascinated this well. we saw during the break all the lobbying that was going on and the freshman tactics we saw going on in kevin mccarthy talking with matt gaetz up beside dan crenshaw reaching over the bench and talking to matt gaetz that we saw sheila jackson lee talk at the back gate s. we were told for a while that matt gaetz was expected to ....