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Its just the beginning. what is going to be a problem is if the american people will be held captive over the next two years to the extreme maga republican agenda that apparently has been negotiated into the house rules and the functions of the congress. >> how does mccarthy put all this ugliness, this turmoil behind him and get to work? >> you saw last week with all the back and forth between mccarthy trying to make concessions with members of the house freedom caucus and more hard right conser...

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Role of house speaker. these are the things that he has agreed to. hes agreed to allow any member of the house can force a motion today vacate. his concessions also make it harder for the house to fund the government, and lit the debt ceiling. i want you to hear this from the house floor on friday. in which a representative, escobar, raised concerns about the republican partys ability and willingness to govern in the house. >> we have seen unfold before our very eyes, is exactly what is in store...

All. to bring over his 20 republican detractors, mccarthy made a series of concessions that week in the role of house speaker. these are the kinds of things he agreed to. hes agreed to allow any member of the house to force a motion to vacate, potentially overthrowing him as speaker his concessions also make it harder for the house to fund the government and lift the debt limit. the debt ceiling. i want you to hear this from the house floor on friday in which texas representative veronica escoba...

Charlie, and then chairman seal, but we will see the same chaos tomorrow that we have seen all last week? >> well, we will see a lot of chaos. it might fail on the first few votes, eventually they will get something done. thats why this is a bigger crisis than just kevin mccarthy for the republican party. because as chairman steele said, now the question is, as kevin mccarthy made so many concessions, congress will be unable, incapable of fulfilling its basic functions keeping the government ope...

That means anyone who can get enough signatures could make a bill come before, and we only need for republicans to vote with us. so i think they have also talked about having open amendments on the floor, so we will have to vote on things and be able to change bills in realtime. so i think there will be opportunities for democrats to make sure that the basic functions of government, like the debt limit, like the government spending will get done and working with our partners in the senate. it wi...

About how to control them again and how to set limits on wages. this was in the galveston paper, in june, 1865. thats how swift and how consistent backlash has been. - the moment obama was elected and early in the presidency, you started to see this dynamic which was, in certain subsets, you were finding majorities of white people who you could poll who would tell you that whites were the most disadvantaged group in the united states. - this president, i think, has exposed himself as a guy, over...

I see it as virtually impossible that they will be able to govern successfully. so on the one hand, it means that its going to be hard for the republicans to get some of their ideas passed and their legislation passed, but it also means that basic functions of government — like funding the government, like having basic rules for how bills become a law — all of that is going to stop as well, so were going to see a lot of problems going forward. and what does it mean for the democrats? have th...

Do something this basic at this moment, i see it virtually impossible they will be able to govern successfully. so on the one hand, it means it is going to be hard for the republicans to be hard for the republicans to get some of their ideas past and the legislation passed, but it also means that basic functions of government like funding the government and like having basic rules for how bills become a law, all of that is going to stop as well so we are going to see a lot of problems going forw...