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>> it depends. i dont have any objection to transparency and the rest. and -- >> you didnt allow it when you were speaker. >> i think its supposed to be about following the procedure, the debate in the congress and if there is more opportunity for that, fine. but i dont think it should be used as a tool against members. i saw you talking to so and so on the floor and this or that. that shouldnt be the case. this was remarkable because when this pwas going on, there were members in the house and ...

>> it depends. i dont have any objection to transparency. >> you didnt allow it when you were speaker. >> but i think its supposed to be about following the procedure. the debate in the congress. and if theres more opportunity for that, fine. but i dont think it should be used as a tool against members. i saw you talking to so and so on the floor and they said that. that shouldnt be the case. this was remarkable because when this was all going on you have to remember there were no rules in the h...

California congressman cechg mc -- kevin mccarthy was elected speaker of the house in the 15th round of voting. >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought wed get up here. maria: mccarthy took several blows on the way to obtaining the necessary votes to win but, ultimately, flipped several members in the 13th and 14th rounds even as at one point florida representative byron donalds emerged as an alternative to mccarthy, gaining 20 votes himself to potential speaker. congressman donalds fl...

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...

Thats absolutely nonworkable, nongovernable, non-starter. >> the best thing kevin mccarthy has going for him is no one its wants the job. the job is hard for a reason, and they do not -- the person who can put together that caucus, that list is still very small. so even though he is a wounded speaker, a potential speaker going in who is going to have to make up a various tight amount of votes to get that job, what he can say is there is very few people who can get those numbers, even if theyre -...

Things that could be promised. maybe they say, you know, were not going to impeach mayorkas. maybe they say we wont do biden investigations. some people throwing out names like liz cheney and fred upton as potential speaker of the houses as unity candidates. i would remind everybody at home, you dont have to be a sitting member of the house of representatives to be the speaker. >> the interesting part in any state legislator, this has happened before. theres been tight majorities. when the major...

You think is going to happen here, do you think hes going to come up with the votes if. >> its interesting because heres the state of the negotiation as best we can tell, andy biggs who ran for the speakership and got 31 votes against kevin mccarthy says hes hard no matter what. matt gaetz says the same thing. hard no votes for kevin mccarthy no matter what, there would need to be another candidate to come in, my guess however theres going to be this negotiation that goes on, a potential speaker...

I mean, jake, kevin mccarthy has said that he is willing to detonate the american economy, default on our nations debt in order to try to strip away social security and medicare tens of millions of americans. its incredibly reckless. its at the top of his agenda. >> it sound like you want pelosi to work to raise the debt limit now so mccarthy cant do that, though, right? >> were going to have a conversation as democrats about the best approach, and we have to find common ground with not just 50 ...

Majority, far narrower than what kevin mccarthy wanted. his team hoped going into election day they could get 20 or more seats that would give them some flexibility, some room to lose some vote, not just on legislating but also getting the votes in the full house in order to become speaker. remember, next week is the beginning of the possess. republicans will go behind closed doors and will nominate their choice to become speaker. he only needs a majority of support within his conference to do t...