coffin, in very yasmin vossoughian. it is now speaker kevin mccarthy, and we have learned he is at work to get today after an ugly week for where publicans and with a 15 ballot victory for mccarthy after last minute efforts that couldn t vince republicans to finally given. and even more chaotic than the beginning of this battle, even one near physical altercation between two members on the floor, now the question is how much did mccarthy give up to represent matt gates, and the other holdouts, and what will they deal with their almost limitless power over the speaker? preferably, you do this, the preference in politics is to always suffer indignities in private not in public. when you have a lower house of legislatures, anywhere in the world, it looks like trump s. i actually have newfound, i have new respect for people i knew. we have newfound respect for people. we do not engage in serious negotiations. i think that s good for policy. in a moment, i m gonna talk to co
coffin, in very yasmin vossoughian. it is now speaker kevin mccarthy, and we have learned he is at work to get today after an ugly week for where publicans and with a 15 ballot victory for mccarthy after last minute efforts that couldn t vince republicans to finally given. and even more chaotic than the beginning of this battle, even one near physical altercation between two members on the floor, now the question is how much did mccarthy give up to represent matt gates, and the other holdouts, and what will they deal with their almost limitless power over the speaker? preferably, you do this, the preference in politics is to always suffer indignities in private not in public. when you have a lower house of legislatures, anywhere in the world, it looks like trump s. i actually have newfound, i have new respect for people i knew. we have newfound respect for
resembles nothing so much as joseph mccarthy s career and what he says is often untrue like trumps. so if we have a trump/cruz race it s going to be two scorpions in a bottle all of the way to the summer conventions. and, you know, and then, you know, if neither of them or rubio or others can get enough delegates for first ballot victory then we really could have a broker convention. and, you know, then i think the assumption then changes because that would be so exciting, that were the republicans to nominate a paul ryan or somebody who is not running right now because none of the delegates are pledged on a second ballot or third or fourth ballot to vote for the person who is running, if we have that and you have, you know, you then have the world s greatest television show. yeah. and this is of course what you and i have been dreaming about for all of these years of covering politics.
rubio or others can get enough delegates for first ballot victory then we really could have a broker convention. and, you know, then i think the assumption then changes because that would be so exciting, that were the republicans to nominate a paul ryan or somebody who is not running right now because none of the delegates are pledged on a second ballot or third or fourth ballot to vote for the person who is running, if we have that and you have, you know, you then have the world s greatest television show. yeah. and this is of course what you and i have been dreaming about for all of these years of covering politics. someone like karl rove actually believes it s going to happen this time. it s really a possibility because it s getting pretty far along in the process. and usually at this time you can tell romney would eventually be the nominee the last time. we knew mccain would eventually be the nominee. this time we don t know that. and if you got that, i think then hillary reall
republicans on capitol hill. we re joined now by frank thorp, capitol hill producer for nbc news. i want to do a preview of what to expect in congress in the next week and the next year. let me start with this louie gohmert news. if you don t want to vote for boehner, vote for me. we were talking about this a bit in the earlier segment here. seems like the idea is to deny boehner that first ballot victory so he doesn t get to 218 on the first ballot. any thanschance that hap snnz. no indication that speaker boehner is in any trouble being re-elected as speaker. you have to remember that congressman louie gohmert voted for alan west two years ago in the race for speaker two years ago. congressman ted voted for then eric cantor. these are and of the usual suspects. some folks that we expected to