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So far, nothing he has done has changed the arithmetic for him tomorrow. one of the things he tried to give them yesterday, lowering threshold of number of republicans it would take to go to the floor and request a vote to oust the speaker. the number now, majority of the conference, but hes saying he would be willing to take it as low as five, john. still wasnt enough. including for one republican matt gaetz on the call saying he was still a no. john? >> from capitol hill. dramatic 24 hours-plu...

They have to be 25 years old, and a u.s. citizen, and reside in new york state, and not out of district by the way and nothing to prevent him from being seated and i said right out of the gate and the nassau district attorneys office -- so to answer your question, there is a lot of talk. people are saying there are a lot of financial issues to look at, a big loan that was made on him to the campaign. deductions that were taken at the level of $199 to avoid a $200 threshold. when in fact its clea...

>> there is nothing that indicates to me that he is going to change his pattern since he has been in leadership where he is part of the swamp cartel. >> the house is paralyzed until it elects a speaker. it cant even swear in members. and a nancy pelosi appointee house clerk holdover cheryl johnson is in charge until republicans finally pick a speaker. >> you could have total chaos. i mean, i think the republican party right now is in the greatest danger of meltdown that its been since 1964. >> t...

Meadows uses the motion to vacate that led to john boehner head for the exit. how do you see this playing out? i dont understand how lowering this threshold will make mccarthy anything other than a caretaker speaker, waiting for the first time matt gaetz and his gang object to something. >> well, it will certainly weaken him. back in 2015, mark meadows did come to the floor with a motion to vacate. only took one member back then. his group was disorganized. they would not have won that vote. in ...

Nine republican hard-liners say some of the concessions he revealed on sunday are notn capitol hill. mccarthy making his case overnight. making some big concessions, lets be frank. the question is, how big are these concessions and will they be enough? >> its pretty incredible the moment that we are at right now. were a day ahead of the speakers election. kevin mccarthy still doesnt know if he has the votes. he tried to make a concession to conservatives last night on that call at 4:00 p.m. sayi...

Kevin mccarthy agreed to something that most would have said is unheard of. that is a threshold as low as five people to trigger a motion to vacate, and even that is not good enough for these hardliners. what is going on in the republican party right now? >> yeah. its -- its not good enough for them because nothing is good enough for them. i mean, thats the reality here. kevin mccarthy has made all these concessions and im afraid anyone of it will be good enough because these people excel at mov...

Should we worry the fbi are not watching these people closely? maybe they should be more watching? >> it is quite difficult this kind of work. and legally to be able to take certain actions against people who are bubbling up for lack of a better term with jihadi us aspirations. but once you hit that threshold, there are things you can do and anita, you make a good point, little complacent and troubling science coming out that may indicate that we are seeing a little bit of the terrorism stuff bu...

>> the vote for speaker has not gone to a second ballot in 100 years. the house must continue to vote until it takes a speaker. the process consumed two months in 1856. neither mccarthy supporters no opponents are budging. >> i think every site has to show their flag at some point before they can come together. they could end up really ahead at the end of this, depending how things end up here. but theyve got to get a speaker sooner than later. if this goes on too long, i think the republican br...

What are the sticking points at this point? >> well, think one of the sticking point is that he just has some members who are going to vote no tomorrow including ralph norman who i tagged to earlier who said his big issue isnt the results package but making sure that theres a balanced budget. he just isnt sure that mccarthy is going to be good on his word when it comes to that issue so hes going to be voting tomorrow for andy biggs, the conservative alternate candidate. that is a major problem f...

Lawless action. at the legal threshold. that statute. for something like obstruction of an official proceeding, i think that is much more. straightforward the current case moving all over in the d.c. circus court right now looking at what constitutes an obsession obstruction of an official proceeding. is it a document. is an actual event? i think you can get around that with trump. if you just focus on the documents and focus on the -- all of those parts are really coming together now in a way t...