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doors to get the gavel. those holdouts who were keeping the the speakership from him now have some plush committee assignments. lauren boebert, scott perry, and where they got assign and why the white house is watching so closely. our congressional reporters are here to explain what those members will now be able to do. they also learned about, more about why congressman marjorie taylor greene might have gotten so close to mccarthy, becoming one of the loudest supporters for him to get...

Dont have a partner in joe biden. but if youre talking about spending plans that pay for what it is you want to do, if youre talking about ideas that are going to help the middle class, lower income people, of course, hes there as a partner, he is very proud of the 1.7 trillion in deficit reduction that was achieved over his presidency in 21 and open 22 and we like to build on that. thats not this discussion, katy. that is a different one. >> what would be on the table for a discussion like that...

Oversight committee at all costs and go to judiciary or something else, anything else besides the oversight committee. so listen, this is a useful foil for the biden administration, a committee that is filled to the brim with fire brands, to say the least, and one that will not get a lot of cooperation from businesses or the government. >> all right. so susan, what is the white house bracing for, as this congress gets moving? >> bracing for investigations into everything. into hunter biden. into...

Out marge ry taylor greene who arguably became one of his most allies of emissaries from the far right who managed to have no committees after the assignments were stripped from her by democrats in the last commerce and two key sites on oversight and homeland security where she will be right in the middle of several big fights we expect to see early in this new congress. >> so oversight, and homeland security, lets talk about oversight, because boebert is on that, gosar is on that, and as garret...

Yet claimed that the election was rigged. and then in the intervening months in december and january, four democratic lawmakers, prosecutors say, who were targeted, and their homes shot at, by individuals who were paid by solomon pena himself. i want to let you hear from debbie omalley, a county commissioner here, one of those individuals tasked with certifying the 2022 local election results and just listen to her explain what she has endured over the last two months. >> well, initially, i thou...

Irresponsibility. because it means youre not paying for spending that congress and presidents have already signed off on. and in fact, what would it do? you just had a good conversation about that. one of the things it would do would to be jack the interest rate up to levels that, you know, probably are unforeseen for the most pristine debt in the world, the u.s. sovereign debt, that would make servicing our debt more expensive, not less expensive. its the exact opposite of what theyre talking a...