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the man who negotiated the deal to deliver mccarthy key votes, republican congressman chip roy of texas joins me for his first post-vote interview. a lawmaker critical of the rebels, republican congressman dan crenshaw is ahead. and standing together. as republicans floundered, democrats were unified. >> house democrats stand together with you. >> how are they preparing to are the next two years? the new house minority whip, congresswoman katherine clark joins me exclusively ahead. ...

roy of texas, who was a key negotiator of getting kevin mccarthy elected as house speaker. ♪ lets make a deal. 15th time is the charm. >> the honorable kevin mccarthy is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [ cheers and applause ] >> but after a bruising fight, can kevin mccarthy govern? the man who negotiated the deal to deliver mccarthy key votes, republican congressman chip roy of texas joins me for his first post-vote interview. a lawmaker critical of the rebel...

>> will you negotiate with democrats in the senate? >> sure. >> this isnt just about negotiating with kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy is much more conservative, however much you think he is a conservative compared to the people who run the senate, which is the democrats, or the white house which is joe biden. >> remember in 2011 obama was in the white house and we got cut cap and balance. we took it to the american people. american people were tired of the status quo. we took the message to them ...

Ork work, limit spending and move the country forward. >> if mccarthy fails to offer a debt ceiling bill that has offsetting spending cuts, if he offers what the democrats in the senate want, which is a clean bill, would you vote to vacate the speakership, because it will now be able to be one person making that motion, to vacate the speaker? >> im not going to play the what-if games on how well use the tools of the house to make sure we enforce the terms of the agreement, but we will use the to...

But i also look to the possibility if you get a republican victory for the presidency by romney, he could easily win. he could win. he would bring the senate with him. all it takes for reconciliation. they could cut taxes for the rich, cut cap gains, keep the bush tax cuts and cut the programs they want to cut and go after entitlements except for social security. they could do that. we could have a real one-party government for awhile. do you think ryan would go and do it even if it means riskin...

Pre presidents re-election campaign than yet another dreary economic report. we got word out of great britain, the u.k., that they are now in a double dip recession. the policies that cameron put forward are similar to what governor romney is endorsing, cut cap and balance. are you concerned, is governor romney rethinking this idea of contracting the size of government given what that that has done in europe, in particular, great britain? >> one thing we can say for certainty, we dont have to lo...

Race like everyone else and after seeing governor romneys not only as a business leader and governor and throughout the debates, he is the person who can lead our country, change the direction, bring those conservative issues we need to the white house is make sure president obama is a one-term president. >> how hard has it been a minority in the senate? harry reid, for example, all the bills passed, and one which is cut cap and balance, cant even get a vote on these things and then the presiden...

Race like everyone else and after seeing governor romneys not only as a business leader and governor and throughout the debates, he is the person who can lead our country, change the direction, bring those conservative issues we need to the white house is make sure president obama is a one-term president. >> how hard has it been a minority in the senate? harry reid, for example, all the bills passed, and one which is cut cap and balance, cant even get a vote on these things and then the presiden...

have a significant effect for our economy and for middle class families all across america. what these independent experts have also said is that if we dont act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, weaker growth. so as we look towards next week, any senator out there who is thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to sdmran exactly why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation at surnl such an ur...

malones is the countrys only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act w...