ahead of him, but i m not sure he can get to 18. if he does, this leads to the premise of your question, stephanie. the question will be, what is he giving away? you might have to promise to bring the whole house town for the opportunity to lead it. it ll be an incredibly weak speaker. if john boehner it was your father, paul ryan is your best friend, this is a guy who will very publicly get rolled by all 218 members just to get their vote. and some of those members will want the high-profile investigations, and ultimately demand impeachment. jim jordan has already said at the point of the investigations is to contextualize the 24 race and frame the race against joe biden. we also know that the likes of jim jordan are going to be holding gavels, and even though they themselves have refused to comply with congressional subpoenas, they will now have subpoena authority. here s what i d say. we re gonna move quickly with the investigations. but be ready. because the white house and other g
218 members just to get their vote. and some of those members will want the high-profile investigations, and ultimately demand impeachment. jim jordan has already said at the point of the investigations is to contextualize the 24 race and frame the race against joe biden. we also know that the likes of jim jordan are going to be holding gavels, and even though they themselves have refused to comply with congressional subpoenas, they will now have subpoena authority. here s what i d say. we re gonna move quickly with the investigations. but be ready. because the white house and other groups are going to be in a rapid response mode to kneecap the credibility of many of these investigations. and they shut. david, if you think kevin can t get the votes, who do you think can? yeah. it s a great question. you have to get the 2:18 on the floor, he only got about 180 votes behind closed doors today. that put some walls right. so, what happens? if he can t get to 2:18, this is what happened
what do we know the house gop has planned? it s probably going to be investigations, plural. looking into biden and his business dealings is one of a top priorities of a number of house republicans, particularly those who might be holding gavels like jim jordan, representative comber. they want to look at broadly two sets of issues here as it relates to the president s son. they want to look at hunter biden s foreign business dealings and they want to look at hunter biden s laptop. the laptop that became infamous in the 2020 election cycle. not so much for the laptop, but the campaign. how it was discussed in the lead up to the election. we ve heard interest from elon musk about whether news about the laptop was censored or unfairly dismissed as disinformation when some republicans believe it was really fair game to be discussed and should have been so rather
had ability to block john boehner the more moderate center of the party any time they wanted it. as i said willing to do that just to make a point. so what she has is just she doesn t really have that scenario. and she also has a lot of members as you say who want to keep the house, and stay in power like holding gavels i think the problem even when warnings to aoc this crew of people is not going away, and it is going to continue getting in the way of her sending a message of a reasonable governing party i think the problem she has, is the definition of who represents the party is the fact that they don t have a record right now passed essentially nothing on bipartisan basis because they the left blocks it and anything that they really left wing politics can t get through senate they have got nothing should show for winning the house. right that is part of the difficulty that nancy pelosi faces, and part of the reason,
had ability to block john boehner the more moderate center of the party any time they wanted it. as i said willing to do that just to make a point. so what she has is just she doesn t really have that scenario. and she also has a lot of members as you say who want to keep the house, and stay in power like holding gavels i think the problem even when warnings to aoc this crew of people is not going away, and it is going to continue getting in the way of her sending a message of a reasonable governing party i think the problem she has, is the definition of who represents the party is the fact that they don t have a record right now passed essentially nothing on bipartisan basis because they the left blocks it and anything that they really left wing politics can t get through senate they have got nothing should show for winning the house. right that is part of the difficulty that nancy pelosi faces, and part of the reason,