alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. i do especially think president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and he was all in. he was all in. kevin mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump s house. built on the backs of trump s republican acolytes whose jobs depend on the support of donald trump s own base. but dynamics that were on display during a four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in the six months since. the chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the cou
it s force them to make a vow to clean house, if they get elected. well, i think two and a half years of the russia hoax under my confidence, and equal treatment under the law of this country. if i m president of the united states, we re going to clean house on the top floor of the justice department, and we re going to find the men and women that are respected in both political parties, because they exist. at the end there, mike pence implies the justice department is currently filled with political lackeys who are biased against republicans, people republicans allege like fbi director, chris wray. when the house returns to d.c. next week, rain will testify before and oversight hearing led by jim jordan and the judiciary committee, and he s expected to be questioned about a number of things, including unverified allegations of eva bribery scheme involving president biden. but it s worth remembering, wray was appointed by donald trump himself. in 2017, who called wray quote, an imp