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Member came up behind him and nuzzled him and tried to hold him back so he wouldnt speak anymore. it spoke to the moment how tense things were and how it looked like it was all falling apart for kevin mccarthy. but almost as quickly as it fell apart things came together. were told leadership was informed it was a yes. and there was another moment of chaos where they switched their votes and they were deciding to do another speaker vote. and then what ended up happening is every single one of tho...

A necessary process they work through, hopefully theyll get through it quickly. but now the president gets a bully pulpit on something he didnt own or take credit for the failure of it. not credit but accountability for that. the two people behind him mayokas and kamala harris the vice president and secretary of homeland, he didnt do any of that. the president gets to move forward without the strongest voices in the republican party in the house even having a say. >> but even with -- they never ...

Call kevin mccarthy. i mean, it really does signify -- >> very snarky, though, by the way. >> very much so. >> she bit the hand that fed her. >> she said it was my favorite president but it was clear saying to the cameras, his favorite sort of medium, thats not going to work with us. and i think that also is a reflection of the performance of the mid-terms, right? the trump name didnt hold them the way they wanted or it could. >> squeaked it out. >> struggled in her own race. trump cant save kev...

That is somewhat in disarray. maybe quite a bit in disarray. theres obvious issues with identity. like who is the gop? what is their identity? we saw what happened in the mid-terms. it was an epic failure in the mid-terms. i feel like you have a power struggle as the gop tries to figure out what is our identity going forward, how do we rebrand this party to be the party that lures american voters in to the voting booth so that we can win the future elections as we prepare for 2024. >> neil: mark...

We elected a speaker. hopefully we can get to that today. thats a symbolic vote to show republicans are serious about reducing unnecessary spending. i think thats a perfect place to start and what we campaigned on and the first bill passed by a republican majority. >> harris: from that point you have the southern border, the chaos there, the deaths there of people drowning in the rio ground. i was down there covering it recently. our own peter doocy put it to the white house press secretary. let...

Doesnt want to insert himself in the process. ahead of the mid-terms, white house officials said that republicans were a threat to democracy, calling then maga republicans, extreme maga republicans. theres none of that today. instead theyre saying were looking forward to working with the democratic leader, hakeem jeffries and looking forward to bipartisan implementation of the infrastructure law, things like this in kentucky that mitch mcconnell will go to. theyre talking ant policy. theyre talk...

>> john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. >> sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. >> martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. im martha maccallum live in our nations...

0 >> john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. >> sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. >> martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. im martha maccallum live in our natio...

The new congress begins next week. republicans will hold the majority in the house. just barely, by an inch. this years mid-terms were not the red wave many thought it was going to be. what margin is mccarthy working with at this point? >> he is working with such a thin majority. republicans got 222 seats. among first-time speakers, i went back and looked, it is the smallest majority in 70 years. you have to go back to 1953 to find a smaller first-time potential speaker for majority. you can see...

Leadership in america. for the rest of the world to see this. i dont think people around the rest of the world can fail them, why we have open borders. >> now, divided government usually mean gridlock. a "wall street journal" op-ed says biden signalling that re-election will be more towards re-electing than governing. what hasnt been fully reported on or fully understood is how important a role the achievements and the agenda of the president and the democrats played in the mid-terms. so if bide...