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Stations, they should send people back, you need to be spending money on jet fuel and to get your state department to work to create agreements with other country to take their people back when they come here illegally, do you those things, you will solve the immigration crisis quickly. trey: congressman, i think it was right around midnight, one night, i could not finding sports on television, i flipped over to c-span, they finally have a speaker. im not asking you about that. life is too short...

Democratic prince grassed of alexandrite urquiza cortez. or the republican george central looking rather lowly sitting there all alone. then making friends with fellow republican members lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene, and nearly forgetting to vote for kevin mccarthy when the clerk called his name. almost like he was going off for something. one of the most iconic moments c-span caught on camera this week was on friday, when a fight almost broke out between matt gates and his fellow r...

Important for the american people to actually see how this thing -- you see members of congress going over and negotiating on the floor, trying to we -- going to talk to alexandra or casual cortez, talk to aoc, you see santos learn how to be a member of congress in an important case. -- what should be doing. that is important for folks to see it, was a reminder of how chaotic the first week was though. i think that was one of the things that a lot of people left with, it is not going to be like ...

Spent any time in front of the news last week. this is an order of the previous question, but theyre on their way to the vote on the rules deal that saved kevin mccarthys speakership. usually mundane, but after all the fireworks, anything could happen tonight. evens watching this a little more closely than usual, and as promised we return to a man who knows all the washington alligators. michael steele is back with us in a moment. hi, michael. but first, reporting live on all this. what can you ...

You have to vote yes or no. the american people are tired of that. we need to see some of the stuff we saw. we were talking ahead of time. c-span control the cameras. >> are you in favor of that? i love the c-span cameras. >> i think drawing people into the conversation with the debate on the floor -- if youre going to have cameras there, lets look at the action. >> youre in favor of transparency, c-span gets to control that? >> let me look into the ins and outs of all of that. >> i think what t...

At the end of the day, it matters that you have a speaker as opposed to not having a speaker, and who that speak speaker is for the vast majority of americans, it doesnt really make that much of a difference as long as it was a republican -- howard: no. i was saying all along in two weeks itll all be forgotten. it was the ugly to watch, no question about it. c-span had control of the cameras, you could see when members were angry and getting in each others faces. once the government takes contro...

I see a tweet that says, congressman adam, where are you? adam kinzinger, where are you? were coming for you. i logon to c-span and one of the camera angles is statute water hall. all of a sudden im hearing commotion. kind of screaming. and i just see this crowd of people walking through into the camera picture. theyve now breached the capitol building. >> ive never been in this house, how about you? >> thats right, we own it, we own you! >> the thing that goes through my head is, once the capit...

Observer of american politics has seen before. that does not mean it has not happened before but, you probably know better than me. >> i think that behind closed doors, there have been moments where things got tense between members, and where things can get very personal with members. remember, whenever there is someone that skin something through negotiation, that usually means that somebody has lost something at the other and that deal, and i think were seeing the tip of the iceberg of how tha...

Of the severe dysfunction in the house that we are all now living through is that weve been able to see it unfold in realtime. the house usually restricts media coverage of its proceedings or government feed that shows head on shots of the dais and desks where members stand to it was their colleagues. but during special events like the swearing in of a new congress, it allows independent cameras into the room to cover its proceedings from all angles. and thanks to the eagle lake camera operators...

Outcome but he wants to drag it out. and the dragging it out is causing just sheer anger and frustration to bubble up. >> he just said rules package as part of this conversation. he said rules package so maybe he still wants to see it all in writing. >> were watching a civil war in the republican party play out on television on the house floor at 11:00 on friday night. >> on january 6th. >> have you ever seen anything like this, dana bash? >> never, for lots of reasons not the least of which we ...