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Tend to do is play the match game, matching impressive black candidates with black conservatives. theyve got one so weve got one gambit. they propped up alan keyes to face barack obama in the 2004 senate election in illinois. they let donald trump pick celebrity running back herschel walker to run against raphael warnock in georgia because, hey, football. by the way, has anybody heard from herschel walker since the election. he never called us back about that debate. now the far right is nominat...

As it was happening. so you are going to adjourn until noon tomorrow. so it wont keep you too much later. but what concessions are there left for kevin mccarthy to give? already i have heard from several members of congress about the fact that it is going to be so difficult to legislate whoever the speaker is because mccarthy has given on so many items for must-pass bills such as funding the government or raising the debt ceiling. congress is likely going to be in a position where democrats, the...

Theyre all there, hakeem jeffries gets 212. if kevin mccarthy can get to 2013 then you can take the risk of changing the rules, the risk there is that matt gaetz votes for the democrat. you know, would that happen? -- >> who knows? >> who knows? >> the never kevins, do they still vote for somebody else or would they actually out of spite vote for the democrat? >> ill tell you what this does, though, this will have the name steve scalise mentioned fewer times today. not just by the likes of us bu...

Victory, a victory for the people, a victory by the people and most importantly a victory for the future of our nation. and dawns on me as i look across the aisle after being here for nearly three years i havent had the pleasure of meeting many of you because youve chosen to stay home and not vote here in person electing instead a proxy vote. [ laughter ] [ booing ] >> reminded to direct his remarks to the chair. >> well, its a pleasure to see 212 of you here today. its also a pleasure to see th...

Has been remarkable to see kevin mccarthy go through 11 votes, 11 rounds of voting, where he did not pick up any votes. in fact, losing some votes. one went to present, some left the house. this will not end until kevin -- between the united, democratic party, that has voted 11 times, all 212 us, for hakeem jeffries as speaker of the house, and the united democratic party that has control with very tight margins over the past two years, and still managed to make the largest investment ever in cl...

This list was on this list last night at this time. so nobody moved, over nobody moved to present today. so again, you look at some of the comments of this these folks have made. my colleague bob good from virginia was quoted as saying, you dont ever have for me to question again, im never on kevin mccarthy. so for say that, and everybody else on this list voted for mccarthy, mccarthy is the speaker. it five take that position, then doesnt matter how many of us on this lets vote for mccarthy, he...

To cut you off here, in the programming, we are dealing with a lot of live events and a lot of things happening on the hill. and talking about the math, assuming that things will hold and assuming nobody will defect away from mccarthy and only continue the momentum he has picked up and we know two members are coming back, ken buck, hunt, and the magic number is 218 that kevin mccarthy needs to get to. he will probably have 216. explain what happens, and if you can, can you take us inside the dis...

Committee. you have things like that. and i worry about the inability now of the house to be able to function under speaker mccarthy, but if he gets it, it was a heck of a feat to get there, for sure. >> ive asked this question about these insurgents being put on the rules committee and blocking legislation from even coming to the floor of the house for a vote. must-pass legislation, appropriations bills, raising the debt ceiling. and the only way to get them out is having to rely on the kindnes...

Place this gets worked out is on the house floor. so, that to me says you have little to no confidence in the negotiations that are happening behind closed doors. with the anti kevin, pro kevin caucuses as they era. >> well, those negotiations take place, while were continuing to try and get this done. simply leaving in sending everybody home, which is what leader mccarthys suggestion has been. to send a solemn and let them work it out. thats not what we were sent here to do, in my view on elect...

Just a couple of minutes remaining. these are republicans, democrats, independents voting. its a simple majority needed to adjourn, correct? >> that is correct. its a simple majority of those who are present and voting. and there are five who are not voting. right now republicans have 216 votes, 212. there are five republicans who have not showed up, presuming that two of them do show up and give them the votes that should be enough to call it. but if the clerk here comes down with the gavel now...