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To be speaker above all else. so, if i know that is your goal, i will punch you all day long. [laughter] and thats what matt gaetz did for five days and 15 rounds. he punked him in every round, particularly on the 14th when he went on fox and said oh, speaker elect mccarthy? we are all good, i dont know if i could ask for anything else, and then voted present. to throw that into a 15th ballot. so that told me, and hopefully everybody else, to charlies point, buckle up for the next two years. >> ...

To be able to do that. >> do you think there are any other concessions from what you understand that kevin mccarthy could give these holdouts that would bring anybody over, even any one individual? because everything -- when you talk about it, it seems like he has already capitulated. he already put everything on the table he could put on there. is there anything else youre aware he could do? >> you have been that right. there has been a very good faith negotiation from speaker-elect mccarthy. t...

Your colleague david valadao from california told me if it took a thousand votes, he would still support mccarthy. do you say the same thing? because there are some on the other side saying six months well fight this out. are you willing to say this could go on indefinitely? >> thats the majority of the conference right now is were sticking with mccarthy. i think it was best put today >> i apologize. i saw excellent coverage of that. one person said it. we in the last two elections, house republ...

Morning. what youll see transpire today, sheryl johnson, the clerk of the house, shes going to gavel out the 117th congress, gavel in the 118th. and since there is no rules passed yet, she has the authority to only do two things, call a quorum vote, we all show up and vote present on the floor and then second call the speaker vote. she only has the authority to call the speaker vote if nobody gets ss ss to 218, call it a se time, a third time, until someone makes a privileged motion to adjourn, ...

40 democrats were absent, that would lower the threshold. >> i see. >> enough to elect mccarthy. >> votes -- >> he would lose his votes, too. >> when youre not minority, you got to take as many wins as you can when you can get them. as much as we can i think accurately predict there would be plenty of embarrassing moments when it comes to passing legislation moving forward with this majority, this slim majority, its not guaranteed. here is a failure unlike anything weve seen since 1923. they sho...

One out so far. they are watching the g.o.p. eat their own. >> extreme maga republicans on the other side of the aisle are dealing with chaos, crisis, confusion and craziness. in many ways its a product of the trump years and the fact they refuse to push back against donald trumps emergence and all that represented. in many ways you reap what you sew. thats the reality what were seeing now on the other side of the aisle. >> if the house fails to elect a speaker after a number of ballots it could...

Is a feeling that congress too often is punching below its wait. >> there is a mystique of how congress works or doesnt work, behind the scenes, how it all gets done, how the sausage is made, congressman you mention speaker elect mccarthy, youre confident that is on the way? >> absolutely, mccarthy will get across the finish line and look forward to really getting to work in 118 congress, we have a lot of important things that we need to tackle for the american people, and they are long overdue ...

Congress too often is punch be below its weight. >> there is mystic around how congress works and doesnt work. behind the scenes how it gets done, how the sausage is made. you mention speaker elect mccarthy. you are confident thats on the way? >> absolutely. mccarthy is going to get across the finish line and i look forward to really getting to work in the 118th congress. we have got a lot of important things that we need to tackle for the american people and they are long overdue and im hopeful...

You both work on other things. other things you are passionate about as far as legislating. but, congressman timmons, you have these 200 plus recommendations, the select committee comes to an end at the end of this congress. and then, what? you bass it on and kind of hope that theyre taken seriously? >> we are working with speaker elect mccarthy to try to make sure that the house administration committee has a select subcommittee for modernization of congress. where we will continue the implemen...

In terms of the donations. i certainly have taken none. but there were those taken. what im more concerned about, to be honest, bret, are the contributions that the americans, the american public, retail investors, the customers made into ftx they were defrauded and bulked and lost their life savings. this should never ever happen again. those are the contributions we should be chasing and were going to get to the bottom of this. >> bret: do you think politicians should give back those donations...