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The powerful rules committee. they also want a vote on term limits. a stand alone votes on appropriation bills and lowering the threshold on the motion to vacate the speaker chair from five people to now a single member. these are significant. there is concern, guys, that mccarthy may lose some moderates who think he is giving away way too much. matt gaetz says nothing will be good enough for him to ever vote for mccarthy and he is taking shots at the new concessions. >> the construct of these r...

Term limits, i think that having those people on the rules committee will ensure that we actually take those votes on the floor. most members of congress on the republican side, weve all campaigned and spent money in mailers and on tv ads saying we were going to do this, but yet weve never voted on that for whatever reason. i think these guys on the rules committee will make sure that we actually do the things we campaigned and said we would do. so i think thats a positive and im hopeful that wh...

Process of removing himself as speaker, just one person, one member of the conference can do it now. and to keep -- he agreed to keep his own pack out of gop primaries and to add more freedom caucus members to the house rules committee. and i understand, he also signed on to a separate approval process for earmarks and allowed floor votes on term limits for members and specific border policy legislation. what else do you require that he do or agree to before matt gaetz will say, okay, im onboard...

Number of bills, including congressional term limits, border security. anything that passes the house has to pass the senate, which is held by democrats. its not like those things are necessarily going to become law, but it will give you a sense of the things they will be voting on. mccarthy also promised that any debt ceiling hike is going to be paired with spending cuts. thats big because it could tee up a fiscal showdown as democrats have drawn a line in the sand about exchanging those types ...

After some of those negotiations that remains confident, despite the stiff republican resistance. >> i felt as though we had a very good discussion. i think be able to do that vote that the discussions are going well and continue. >> some of the negotiations taking place, according to politico a one member motion to vacate. meaning one member could trying ear no confidence vote. before mccarthy wanted five. the house freedom caucus wants two seats. the site also reporting representative elect ra...

He will come down to the one member concession. also, they wanted members who would take part in the house rules committee. that is a very powerful committee here in the house, that would essentially dictate the terms of the bill in the in amendments on the house floor, its usually controlled by the leadership. mccarthy is agreed to give some members of the house freedom caucus seats on a very powerful committee, which would have huge implications for the bills that come to the floor and the ame...

Hoping new concessions offered to those 20 plus members voting against him will put him over the top. one aide told fox news mccarthy is now open to allowing just one member to introduce a motion to vacate the speakers chair. they could get the conversation started on kicking him or anybody out of the seat with one person coming forward. also putting more house freedom caucus members on top committees. and he is promising to hold votes on the caucuss priorities like border legislation and term l...

One member could trigger a no-confidence vote at any time to get him out of the speakers office. before he wanted at least five. the freedom caucus wants two seats on the house rules committee and representative ralph norman wants term limits. three terms at two years a pop. also reportedly up for negotiation to help get mccarthy in. >> bill: david spunt, appreciate that. >> dana: lets bring in colorado republican congressman elect buck. the headline this morning. who is crazy enough to be a rep...

Forth. its good for the country. its not. theyre lying. >> theyre not telling the truth. this is complete chaos and it did he go degredates our democracy. they have this kind of power that theyre willing to derail everything for a series of demands. that makes our country look weaker than we are. >> can we talk about the demands, at least the procedural ones? >> sure. >> are they all really so bad for democracy? dont some of them make a little more sense in terms of giving more -- you dont think...

Really are holding the rest of the conference hostage. we have this fringe element of the republican party that are not operating in good faith, and essentially we have 10% of the conference that are dictating the terms for it, 90% of republicans. as we mentioned, kevin mccarthy has given many concessions as we have outlined with regard to motion to vacate, term limits, as well as votes on securing the border and freedom caucus members on the rules committee. hes really watering down the positio...