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colleagues i would resign from the speakership and resign from congress at the end of october. i think kevin mccarthy would make an excellent speaker. >> i will stay on as majority leader. if were going to be unite and be strong, we need a new face to help do that. >> john boehner who is zpiesed by many will stay on but for how long. >> just when i thought i was out, they pull me back in. >> and thats happening. >> its friday october 9th. john lennons birthday. the republican party fal...

Majority of the republicans and when they vote for speaker, when they vote for speaker, he has to have an absolute majority of everyone voting in the house. and democrats would vote for nancy pelosi and that meant he had to get 218 votes and the house freedom caucus and hard line conservatives who would not vote for mccarthy and vote for dan webster, he could only afford to lose 29 and he would not get to 218 and he realized the math is not going to add up. and the freedom caucus said we will ne...

Moderate republicans, and he said what the majority of my colleagues, almost all of my colleagues on the democratic side agree with. that is that in order to make decisions, we need to work together. we need a governing majority of the house. the republicans need to reject passing legislation only with a majority of the republicans in congress. we can find common ground. we should reach across the aisle. in fact, with congressman dan webster, one of the candidates for speaker, he and i dont agre...

Standing next to mccarthy while trying to get people to vote for him. he was completely stunned and he, this is mccarthys opponent just a few hours ago, webster said he was sure 99% sure that mccarthy would be the next house speaker. >> a few hours have changed quite a lot there on capitol hill. thank you both very much. lets talk more about this with mark preston. jeb bush reacting just a few moments ago to this. i want to play that. >> im surprised. i think kevin mccarthy was a good man. . im ...

Whether it is jason chaffetz or dan webster or somebody else. do you think that that is true? >> as you are saying and i was thinking about it. on one hand you can say it helps, but mostly around the establishment and leadership types that support mccarthy in the first face and whether it would help for the 40 plus people i am not sure. you will have to find somebody who bridges that gap. and in all of the issues that we have had whether it is a grand bargain. we decide who is right or wrong. bo...

And dan webster second and chaffetz 10 or 11 votes. and he might come out of the wood work or someone comes in to the speakership here. >> what are the democrats saying? >> reporter: i was on fox business. and the chair of the house democratic caucus was on and he said maybe republicans might realize that john boehner was the best deal they being get. individual members of congress in the republican party who had trouble with him. and john boehner who is number one plan to keep the government op...

U ultimately were going to see the republicans sort this out, but usually these kaz m between this conservative wing of the party and the majority of the house republicans usually these fights are a little bit more secret. >> jake, do you think this could be the fresh start that we heard them talking about? this can be hitting the reset button for congress, for the gop and congress and having that fresh start and unity after all of this? >> i mean, it depends what you mean by fresh start. certai...

Are the forces that caused problems for kevin mccarthy. its unhappiness with the way our political system is supposed to work which is with compromise. this is anti-governing sentiment saying we are not prepare today make compromises you need to make. >> i think he was writing about it being a mess. i think you going to love this. this is such a classic typical response by jeb bush. here is what he said today. he was surprised by what happened and offered praise for congressman daniel webster wh...

And so when you have 153 republican members voting against the budget of the united states and voting against the leadership position, thats the number that the press ought to focus in. the group of 30 to 40, we put up dan webster, he doesnt have the highest conservative score. he was speaker of the florida house, and hes a process guy. and all we want -- and the whole conference was making huge progress last week after jaurn boehner stepped down in moving toward regular order. and thats not a h...

Floor and he came up short by every head count and the freedom caucus x. 40 plus conservative and party members of the cackus saying they would stand together and vote against him for daniel web stare as an alternative. and perhaps he couldnt get to that number and thats why he stood up and said i am not the leader at this time. something happen when he walked in the conference meeting until the time he dropped out. we had video of him saying it is going to be a great day and i think we have the...