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Here that not many of them voice publicly but is a concern of theirs, which is that kevin mccarthy basically gave away all or most of his power to the freedom caucus, to these hard liners whose goal is to throw sand in the gears of the federal government and to, you know, basically use any and all of their leverage possible to enact conservative policies and conservative principles. now, obviously most republicans agree policy-wise on what they want to do, but where they disagree is on the tacti...

Basically call for a referendum again on kevin mccarthys speakership and say remember that, that messes that we had to go lu in january, do you want to do that again? if not, give us what we want. and i think its a real problem, and it may cause mccarthy to have to go to hakeem jeffries and democrats for some of these votes. and the question i would ask the holdouts is do you think this increases the likelihood of negotiating power on republicans, or does this make it more likely that hakeem jef...

Well republicans regret their negotiations with the extremists in their caucus? those answers are going to become more clear in the coming days and weeks ahead. what are the consequences for the country so far? we just a handful of extreme members bring up 435 seat body to its knees. until their demands were met. behold is leverage for at least two years folks. how can i be expected to govern the country when they cant even govern themselves. take a look at this exchange between matt gates and a...

No leverage. and one of the concessions the speaker purportedly made is to reduce the budget number top line for 2024, fiscal 2024 to 2022 numbers which, if you do the math, could end up with an enormous $75 billion cut for defense if they divide cuts for defense and social welfare spending equally. what do you make of that? >> yeah. this was very alarming to me, paul. now, the republicans that i have talked to have been very quick to say, no, no, no, no, were not going to do that. look, we can ...

Because even, laura, if they do get some republican tuesday back this deal theyre trying to cut to give essentially the rank and file members, the far-right members more leverage over the speakership, giving them more sway over the legislative process, that doesnt mean theyre going to get all those holdouts to get kevin mccarthy the votes he needs. which is why the expectation is its going to be difficult to get to that point tomorrow. well see if he gets there next week if at all. >> difficult ...

>> the last part, we try to soar it up for generators. i asked them about why did you not resolve this before, because they had a difficult time doing it. difficult time closing out a deal now because even, laura, if they do get some republicans to back this deal that theyre trying to cut to give essentially the rank and file members, the far-right members, more leverage over the speakership, giving more sway over the legislative process, that does not mean that they will get all those hold out ...

Business. if they cant elect a speaker, then they can adjourn. thats really the only two options. but the majority of the house to adjourn. they wanted to adjourn. kevin mccarthy today all day long has wanted to adjourn this house in order to allow for negotiations to happen. but democrats didnt want to allow him to do that. they wanted to see him fail time and time again. and some republicans, those holdouts would not give him the votes either. so as a result, mccarthy has had to go through thi...

They believe they have the leverage even though theyre in the minority, they have the leverage. you see donald trump up there with one vote and how embarrassing that is to him. but matt gaetz would nominate donald trump for speaker of the house on january 5th hours away from the second anniversary of january 6th just tells you thou is not a serious enterprise. how at least many of the holdouts are not serious people. two years ago tomorrow donald trump tried to steal the country, tried to subver...

>> mccarthy. >> luna. luna. mccarthy. >> all right. >> she had changed over in the last vote, so she has stuck with mccarthy. theyre not losing anybody and theyve gained harris. >> what you pointed out, david, and this is something that right has to contend with, as much as the left, but it is an asymmetric problem on the right, is mccarthy has demonstrated he is not good at curtailing the extremes in his own conference. and that is -- that is the problem, is that he has a conference. if he had ...

Congressman matt gaetz who has voted 11 times for candidates other than mccarthy. great to see you tonight. i love seeing you with congresswoman jayapal. any scoop that you can give us? that was funny. what are they talking about? >> my conversations with democrats have been about making sure they dont leave the floor for dinner or fundraisers or whatnot. we need them to stay there so that the denominator in the equation on the election of the speaker allows us to have leverage to push for many ...