Mccarthy Down News Today

we have fox team coverage in new york. larry kudlow of fox business tells us about the global impact of these currency efforts. in washington rich edson shows us how china is making its move. but we begin with national correspondent william la jeunesse at the leag presidential library in simi valley, california. good evening, william. >> good evening, bret. you know, washington and beijing have had for differences over the future of taiwan. today speaker mccarthy down played any disput...

Scenes, i prefer being invisible. everything is new to me. im emerging into the world where all the things i would say to somebody else, dont forget to say this and do this. i know the mechanics but being in the chair is a whole different experience. >> getting used to it and doing a brilliant job. want to talk about your family. im semi obsessed. it was cross culture and fundamentally american and immigrant. you lived in saudi arabia. you come from, i wrote this down, you come from free people,...

Automatically become speaker if the house were to flip to the republicans because despite the fact that the, you know, minority leader has done everything he can to kiss up to trump and make up with him, he probably really would rather have a jim jordan and its not clear the cops would support carl. >> right. >> support mccarthy, sorry. >> look, mark meadows who is still very close to trump and doing everything he can to help trump out, mark meadows told people that he wants to bring mccarthy do...

I didnt even know it yet. he was telling me. that doesnt make any sense. you won texas. what you talking about? and he just got so agitated with me that he ended up hanging up the phone. he was no longer in a good mood. i think he believes it. >> you talk about kevin mccarthy here. >> yeah. >> you write that its not clear to you -- and ive had the same theory -- that kevin mccarthy would automatically become speaker if the house were to flip to the republicans because despite the fact that the, ...

He understood newspaper deadlines, drop sisterly right before a deadline, because the reporters couldnt check it. he understood television, and ultimately the country ran out of patience with him. my best historical -- our best historical source for that is a common denominator between mccarthy and trump, roy kohn. roy kohn started out as joe mccarthys lawyer. kohn said what he believed brought mccarthy down. where the army said, have you no decency. but that the public got tired of the show, th...

Deadlines. he would drop material right before a deadline because reporters couldnt check it. he understood television. and ultimately the country ran out of patience with him. and our best historical source for that is actually a common denominator between senator mccarthy and president trump is roy cohn. cohn said what he believed ultimately brought mccarthy down was not the noble moment in the hearings where the council for the army said have you no decency as dramatic as that is, but simply ...

>> the only analogy for me is joe mccarthy who understood media, newspaper deadlines, he would drop material before the deadline because the reporters couldnt check it. he understood television. and ultimately the country ran out of patience with him. and my best historical -- our best historical source for that is actually a common denominator between senator mccarty and roy cohn. he started out as joe mccarthys lawyers. cohn said what he believed ultimately brought mccarthy down was not the no...

Longer than investigations into president kennedys assassinati assassination, iran contra, and watergate is essentially a political operation to damage hillary clinton. mccarthy tried to walk back his comments last night. >> point -- the point i was trying to make, and i want to be very clear about, this i wasnt saying that committee is political. that committee is solely to get the truth out. what happened within the truth, you found out about a server. this committees sole purpose is to find t...

It alienates voters and other lawmakers. it would be useful for him to take his confidence and be more humble. >> you bring up a couple interesting points. lets talk timing. they didnt have 24/7 cable news and twitter to deal with. you talk about political divisiveness. everyone says todays congress is most partisan ever. look at president eisenhowers tenure. it doesnt get much worse than that. how did he deal with that? >> well, mccarthy was out of control. eisenhower worried about his own righ...