but at what price? he made a whole lot of concessions and it darn near came to blows. more on that later. just how did things unfold the way they did on that crucial 15th ballot, and how did mccarthy forces get those 6 never kevin members to end up voting present rather than against mccarthy? pennsylvania republican scott perry was a no vote on mccarthy too, but with he changed his mind a few voting rounds earlier. why then? we ll ask him, because perry is here now. and so is texas congressman keith selt who did the same thing. and look who wells is joining us this morning who else, none other than dan crenshaw who had some very choice words for those early holdouts, called them enemies, and that was even the nice part. what does he think no? and why dud south dakota republican dusty johnson insist republicans can move on now? he ll tell us. they ll all tell us because they re all here, and so are we. ed good morning, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and maybe i should be saying
that s what we have returned to the american people, to be the greatest legislative body on the face of the everett. neil of the earth. neil: key to this agreement was another measure to cut spending, tie it to debt ceiling increases. democrats immediately seized on that, sir, to say republicans are going to shut our government down. if they don t get their way, they re going to shut our government down, and this is the tool they ll use to do it. what do you say? i say that there is plenty of waste, fraud and abuse, just extra spending in the federal government. we ve got plenty of spending that we can look at. i m not going to get into the details, but i tell ya, i think we can do that without harming a single american citizen. in fact, we need to return america to the position of peace through strength, not weakness. neil: all right. so just so i can understand what that means, this still calls for when the debt ceiling issues
reporting, paul ryan doesn t want to deal with this right now and mitch mcconnell definitely doesn t want to deal with this right now. it s the last thing they need when they re confronting the debt ceiling issues. are they going to deal with it along with everything else? is this really the frog they want to boil? i can t imagine for the reasons glen said, i can t imagine that s the case. there is a very small, very loud caucus or chorus in the republican party that wants to do this, but the leadership does not. they don t want to do it probably ever, and they certainly don t want to do it now. to your point, trump s kicked the can down the road six months. congress wants to kick the can down the road further. but what happens is eventually the ball comes back to trump again and we ll see what happens then. it seems the likelihood of anything happening in the next
we ll have a nice little visit about that before we get into the five or seven month debt ceiling issues. up next, why scott walker may want to rethink his hero worship of ronald reagan. new warnings on climate change. and we re taking your questions on ask ed live. stay with us. we re right back on the ed show on msnbc.