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 into t
Into the chamber when he has announced a speaker up the house . he will be sworn and and constantine in the house. when they have this narrow a vote majority and that don t have proxy voting, that is something that has assisted because of the pandemic. is going to be a real challenge to get everybody there maybe democrats will be able to win some ballots and they don t hav everybody there.
But we will have a fully operating they sworn all the new senators are the senators who were reelected and that happened pretty quickly. with a house that was lagging behind but this is the longest race we have had since the 1850 s. 133 rounds i m told. so this is nathaniel banks. you know it all. thank you for that. your thoughts, kevin mccarthy is now the speaker of the house. he navigated that half past. he really did. that guy has been in more hotel rooms and raised more money for the party and there was huge doubt about whether he could do it. he worked with people and now
This vote goes the way we believe it s going to go and there s not going to be kevin m ccarthy there s not a lot of family around. there s not a lot of celebrator atmosphere tonight with these members. it is custom of the house if you have a child 16 years and younger are to be able to be on the floor at any given time. so there is always something funny going on with that. i can tell you i have two daughters with me and it was a very emotional moment. you bring your own bible and yo price or handed you get sworn i two congress. it is a neat moment. you get a picture taken. it is just a light moment. to a lot of people getting swor in for the first time. it something that very few people get to do. that sad that they have to miss that moment that there will be some ceremonial things along th way.
, when he didn t vote for m ccarthy. now he has voted president and there is another present and that means that we have crossed the threshold of the numbers ar the same inside that hall. we should give the clerk some props as she takes a little drink of water. this has been a tough job for a long time. they have alternated clerks, bu you ve got to give them some props for all they are doing. you ve got to give people bob good changed his vote from jordan to present so we now hav three people who have changed a present which really does lower the threshold. we always thought the magic number was 218. tonight the number we found out was 217. so 217 is now the magic number and if it is you say everybody remains in the house that was there during the 14th vote, then five present votes would lower that threshold to 13. and that would give us enough. chad pergram come is my math correct on that quite.