the man who negotiated the deal to deliver mccarthy key votes, republican congressman chip roy of texas joins me for his first post-vote interview. a lawmaker critical of the rebels, republican congressman dan crenshaw is ahead. and standing together. as republicans floundered, democrats were unified. house democrats stand together with you. how are they preparing to are the next two years? the new house minority whip, congresswoman katherine clark joins me exclusively ahead. president biden is set to visit the southern border as he expands a trump-era rule he had promised to overturn. it s important to step back and see the bigger picture here. will a divided congress address the immigration crisis. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is reeling from a wild week this morning after historic struggle, kevin mccarthy is house speaker. he won ugly, but he won. it took 15 ballots, a divisive speaker struggle not seen since before the ci
rules on monday. we re going through the steering process of getting folks on committees. for example, when we say jake, we put out a list on december 8 saying, hey, here is what we think we need to transform this place, here is what we need to see in any speaker. we ve been out and open on that. this isn t about chip roy wants a spot on a committee. i haven t been promised anything. i haven t gotten anything out of this deal, me personally. does that mean i ll end up on a committee? maybe, if that s what my colleagues want. we still have to go through that practice. what we have extracted is promises from the speaker to make sure we have ideological diversity of representation on the committees. two freedom caucus member out of 33. rules committee, always a struggle to get anybody on there who is going to push back about, w wait, why are we jamming a bill through that nobody has read?
his son, barron trump s birthd y birthday. happy birthday to him. clayton: it s gonna be a very busy week for the president and the vice president because they re trying to get support right now from the house members who were no votes on the repeal and replacement of obamacare. call it ryancare, call it trum trumpcare and so the vice president is out and the president now cracking the whip trying to get these guys from no to yes. pete: they re anticipating a vote late this week maybe thursday, so you ve got until thursday to get a majority in the house to pass this bill. you ve got all democrats against it. that s a given at this point in time. they re not gonna vote for it. you ve gotta get this freedom caucus members. a meeting the president had on friday in the white house, two freedom caucus may have come over in support of the bill because of some modifications, so a little bit of give-and-take going on. mike pence was in florida at the club for growth in palm beach. here s