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Is members of the house congress almost have more leverage because of the concessions that were made. what it says about the partisan divide in this country is theres just a lot of factions within both parties. and what youre seeing play out is exactly that. you have republicans, more moderate, not really agrees with more conservatives. then you also saw at the end of the day, it doesnt matter. we need to get things done and its preventing them from getting things done if we cant agree on who th...

Happen in the future. were going to go through the same debate about what is going to happen and who is going to be their leader. >> well we have seen over the past week, they were saying these things out in the open, members like matt gates. kevin mccarthy either did not take them seriously or did not think he would neither votes, what we saw play out as that he needed to take seriously their demands and that they really have been studying. theyve been starting procedural rules and all those th...

So still some folks not happy with the end result, so well see if they can get it together on monday and, hopefully, not another 15 rounds of votes on the rules. of. will: so, shannon, im going to fire off, unfortunately, several questions in one, but i think they all go together, and hopefully you can handle it. one, what are the members saying they dont like about this rules package; two, what if they dont pass it? if i mean, what is the fallout, i mean, the repercussions now? theres not much ...

Marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert and matt gaetz and jim jordan and james -- that who is whos running the show right now. lets be clear, theres no moderate republican party. the fact that marjorie taylor greene, the one aligned with kevin mccarthy, tells you that there is no moderate wing anymore. theyre gone, dead, voices in powerless. >> michelle, mccarthys gavel came at a steep cross. well learn more when the rules committee and rule procedures and committee is announced, but he agree...

See whether the republicans can actually address the things they ran on -- inflation, border, and so forth. to me, that is the real question here is not the, what it took to get mccarthy into the speakers office but now that he has it, how do the rules work? what is the floor going to look like over the next few months? >> right. but i mean you can learn a lot from watching that fight break out and how the hardliners might be moving forward. right? you know, did this experience teach the hardlin...

Is it possible that some of what happened here might ultimately be good for the american people? >> what we are seeing here is that when they talk about process, that is a smoke screen. what none of the representatives you just had on would take on is that theyve already put this out there. this is their written agenda that they put forward during the midterms, that they are going to use the debt ceiling as leverage to take american seniors hostage. this is their plan. they voted to raise the de...

Already informing members about the next steps theyll be taking after his now expected victory tonight. that includes organizing the house. they are telling their members to expect a vote potentially late in the night to adopt a rules package that will govern how the house will operate. thats actually been part of the negotiations between mccarthy and a number of his holdouts over the past several days, a number of concessions to allow some of these members to have more leverage, essentially wea...

Have, i mean is there going to be compromise? is that going to be possible? >> there is going to need to be some give-and-take because theres also a united states senate, and the american people although im not very happy about it, put chuck schumer in charge of the u.s. senate or gave him enough numbers so he could be in charge. but i think we want to focus on leverage here, which you have a conservative house majority, we are going to startatio negotiat at a stronger place than when we had a n...

And then kevin mccarthy went and thanked donald trump for getting him over the top of the second anniversary of the january 6 investigation. this is the reality, he won the prize that he is long-sought, but he is not only given away a lot of the power of the speaker, but more importantly he has ceded enormous leverage over shaping the parties image and setting its agenda to the most militant members immediately after an election in which the image of extreme is a significantly hurt republican si...

Shutdown or default with devastating consequences to the country. what did you think of that? >> when i start caring about what chuck schumer says, pigs will be flying, but i would say, look, on the government shutdown aspect and you asked mr. perry this just a minute ago, of course, nothing is off the table, but weve also had some very good ideas how to free prevent that. and we could have a cr going through the appropriations process the way well go through the appropriations process. this is ...