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The ast fall.alize the midterms were a crushing disappointment. disappointthat is not all kevin mccarthys fault. if you want to blame a single person, blame mitch mcconnell. e deserves it.mccart >> but kevin mccarthy wasn th the head republican int the house when that happened. that debacle happened and he shares responsible for it. thats true. but you never know that from t listening to republican leadersb in washington. they dont talk about it.li theyve never atoned. >> they have no plan to ch...

The response to the attack on our capitol is here. just as the anniversary was approaching we saw the division. republicans have long opposed, removed earlier this week, whats the mood on the capitol today? >> its somber. everyone remembers where they were on that day. i was standing right here for hours and hours and hours watching as the attack unfolded. members being back in that chairman today when it opens in noon will be a powerful moment for many of them and getting rushed into hiding pla...

Their job. law enforcement officers in all 50 states are begging congress to force this administration to secure the border to do something about the fentanyl crisis that plagues every community in every state in our great nation. [applause] americans watched in disarray at the debacle in afghanistan, and americans were left with many questions. how much equipment was left behind for the taliban? how many americans were left behind? the origination of covid-19 -- we all know someone personally w...

Plurality required, not a 218-vote majority. do you think its actually going to come to that? >> look, thats not something i would support, jake. thats not what we were elected to do. we were elected to put a conservative agenda in place, and we were elected to stop bidens agenda that we campaigned on is from the out o border to the out of control inflation to the rise of crime. weve gone from the abraham accords to the worst withdrawal in afghanistan, or the worst debacle since saigon. and i pe...

Debacle at the holidays. >> lets be clear we have made a ton of progress since this summer. the evidence of that we had a epic storm hit the united states and within a few days almost all of the airlines had recovered. as a matter of fact, every airline recovered except for one. >> bret: southwest. >> southwest airlines, thats right. they failed to invest in the kind of i.t. systems that they needed and made a number of other operational mistakes. >> bret: was the d.o.t. aware of southwest airli...

Specifically how political dysfunction in america can grow slowly and explode, a theme on display tonight. i want to play you something off the top and get your view on all of it. this is the first time weve seen you since this house debacle. but that is the way so many things in america nowadays feel so polarized, folks are working off different understandings of the facts. i want to note not as a congratulations but on fox this is playing as a debacle, and thats somewhat and interesting from h...

Recent weeks picked up was on the phone, mccarthy should be our guy, and yesterday with the truth social post, have down market saying look, he should be speaker, its time to take the win, set aside the fighting. he said to republicans, look, we need to come to a deal, but he didnt talk about mccarthy. so again, he seems to be backing off a little bit here. afraid, perhaps, of being associated with another failed effort, even as mccarthys allies think they are making progress. its been a debacle...

Of the kinds of expenses you have to run while you dont have your baggage. again, a lot of this is pursuant to things that werent impossible before. >> bret: i want to deal with a couple of controversies getting attention from critics. basically they are saying that you kept a low profile during the southwest debacle. never did a from the. you were in portugal during the rail strike crisis. on paternity leave during the 2021 supply chain crisis. this is what they say. and how do you address that...

Having said that, i think that will made a good point in his report which is that, because of the way the maths lines up here, both the pro— and anti— mccarthy factions can each thwart the other. in other words, if the republicans tried to kick mccarthy overboard for a more hard right figure, well, there are easily enough pro—mccarthy or mccarthy loyalists to stop that person from getting the speakership, so this is why we are in the middle of something of a debacle here, to be honest. my ...

Will make a good point in his report which is that because of the way that the maths lines up here, both the pro—and anti—mccarthy factions can each thwart the other, in other words, if the republicans trend to kick mccarthy over for a heart rate figure, than they are easily enough there mccarthy or mccarthy loyalists to stop that person from getting the speakership. so this is why we are in the middle of something of a debacle here, to be honest. my goodness, what you have described there, ...