this morning only a few hours before the actual meeting that he was still in the race. what happened? i don t think we know yet, wolf. i think it s very, very unusual that he pulled out at the last minute. his stated reason for dropping out as he said in interviews today is that he wanted a larger majority of the vote. i ve never seen someone drop out of the race because they were going to win but not win by a big enough margin. i mean, he knew when he jumped into this race that governing the house conference was going to be difficult and that he d only have, you know, 218 or 220 something votes for most priorities including his own election. so, look, i think the most unusual thing is the one you pointed out in your interview with webster is that other members of congress were raising this issue of misdeeds. and i think that s the most curious thing that has happened this week. i frankly don t think we have the full story of why mccarthy dropped out yet. and that s still to come.
that s what i support. i don t want to get trapped into these issues where we wait right until the last minute and the last end of the day. i want to take those important issues up first so we don t have this pressing deadline all the time. and that s what i believe to be is a principle-based system. so you re not ruling out necessarily another government shutdown? no. i think we stay away from those by doing our work. and if we do our work up front, we don t even run into these government shutdown issues. congressman daniel webster of florida wants to be the next speaker of the house of representatives. what an exciting day today up on capitol hill, congressman. thanks for joining us. great to be on. much more on the breaking news coming up. get back to our panel. all the day s news including my interview with dr. ben carson, the republican presidential candidate. much more right after this.
that is again where they will be looking for the ship itself. one is really directly in the area where the ship was last known to have been. the other debris field, some 60 miles north. these are the two spots where they will actually turbine to look for the ship t data recorder and other relevant evidence that could be helpful to the investigators. alex field, thank you very much. i m ana cabrera in for carol costello. i want to go back to capitol hill now and manu raju. he s caught one one of the republican lawmakers taking part in today s speaker nominee vote. i m with john flemming here the congressman from louisiana. a member of the house freedom caucus. that is that conservative group that has endorsed daniel webster who is trying to challenge kevin
to tell them and what kevin mccarthy is going to have to try to tell them now, no matter what, yes, we have a house majority but there are only 54 republican senators. by the way, there s a democratic president, barack obama, who can veto anything we send him. these most conservative members despite civics 101, if you remember taking civics class, they still think their leadership should be getting more. if they can t get more, it should be more confrontational. those conservatives will be with daniel webster today. i think the key point is after the vote today, assuming mccarthy is right and he gets most of the votes, quet nthe qu now, what does he have to give up? does he have to issue a public statement. let s listen in. jason chaffetz on capitol hill. this is what i worry about. is the math is an issue. it will continue to be an issue.
secret ballot for their choice to replace john boehner. while today s process is behind closed doors, a very public fight, with a rift between the party. dana bash is joining me now. we now know there are three candidates working to get votes of their colleagues, right? reporter: that s right. their three candidates just gave their closing pitches behind closed doors to the republican members who will be voting in a couple hours. kevin mccarthy is one. he is the front-runner, currently the house majority leader. jason chaffetz, chair of the house oversight committee, threw his hat in the ring last weekend, surprised people, since he and mccarthy are friends. daniel webster of florida, he is now the favorite among those who call themselves kind of the most conservative in the so-called house freedom caucus. moments ago kevin mccarthy walked by me. he insists he s going to be okay, he s going to get the