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He gave conflicting responses whether this is going to get him the speakership or not. and at one point congressman matt gaetz one of these five republicans considered a hard no vote on mccarthy spoke up and said hes still not backing mccarthy. the house is going to vote on tuesday on electing a sitting speaker. were waiting to hear from those conservative hard liners whether this new rules package and all these new concessions mccarthy agreed to is going to move the needle at all. mccarthys tea...

Anything about santos? >> sure. anything that isnt about the speakers vote, kevin mccarthy and republican leadership is not going to talk about. they are focused what will happen on tuesday and hoping that process begins and ends on tuesday. anything else is a distraction. we have to be mindful regardless of what happens with george santos, hes going to have a vote for speaker. he was dually elected, regardless of the lies and another shoe dropping every day, he will be in the house chamber and ...

Members of his caucus. in exchange for their support. hes reportedly considering things like changing committee rules and lowering the threshold for something called the motion to vacate. essentially making it easier for members to be able to vote and get rid of a speaker. something that would be a huge concession if it is made for someone like mccarthy who wasnt a very as we know vulnerable position in his bid for the speakership. as if this wasnt a headache enough for him, hes also dealing wit...

Lets discuss this with the congressman of ohio. first off, did you take part in this afternoons conference call? >> i wasnt on the call. i was traveling so i missed the call. i caught up with a few colleagues to catch the highlights and sounds like melanie summed up the call very similar to my colleagues. >> so what do you think? here we are and its still not a sure bet that hes going to have the votes even though he made that key concession reducing the threshold required to force a floor vote ...

Attorney may do. but there should be a standard of ethics for people who serve in congress, certainly who serve in our party, the other party does in terms of what they considers at the colors up to them. but republicans should be very, very clear. at a minimum, were expect all republican elected officials to be honest, to be very clear and forthright, to not play with the ball in terms of their income, and make inappropriate use of campaign funds and the like. we should have a high standard tha...

Attempt to legislate whether they dont control the senate and dont control the white house. so, yeah, there is probably going to be a few ballots on tuesday, not a tremendous number, but and mccarthy may have to give up a few concessions in order to get to that threshold of majority to become the speaker, but at the end of the day if youre the republican you have to ask yourself, why are you putting yourselves through this? why are you kneecapping whoever becomes your speaker? i think it will pr...

Threshold of 218 votes. it doesnt matter if there are three, four, five, or only one candidate. they have to cross tonight in 18. house republicans right now have 222. meaning, kevin got you can only lose four votes. he already has five who have said they wont vote for him. now, can he move just one of those? maybe. but even if he does, he needs george santos to be seated. because, george santos has expressed his support for kevin mccarthy. so, kevin mccarthy appears poised to overlook all of th...

Against the best interests of the commander in chief. and weve said that weve been o called conspiraccoy theorists. and regarding joe biden claiming that the secret service lied on hirvicm, we all know that joe biden has a veryh low threshold for lying. hes been lying for decadesabou about his alleged civil rightsho record , claiming that he worked to desegregate restaurants and movie theaters in delaware e. zero evidence that he did. hit it has said that he tried mandisit nelson mandela during ...

Motion. its just right now a conversation in the conference about where that threshold sits. will it be five members? it currently sits at about half the numbers you need in order to push through the motion but kevin is doing the work that needs to be done. he always has, whether its recruiting candidates, raising money, understanding districts, knowing congress, knowing the committee work that needs to get done. i have never met a member thats a bigger champion of committees than kevin mccarthy...

Certainly who serve in our party. what the other party does in terms of what they consider ethical is up to them, but republicans should be very clear that at a minimum, we expect our republican elected officials to be honest, to be very clear and forthright, to not play hide the ball in terms of their income and so on and make inappropriate use of campaign funds and the like. we should have a high standard that we demonstrate that were committed to that for our own members, and then we should a...