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The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we...

You mentioned it earlier. dana bash put out i thought a really good package together on the new chair of the house appropriations committee and the ranking member the first time in over 30 years that we have had women as a chair and ranking member of a committee. whenever we have gotten into shut down politics or an issue like this its because we dont have a working appropriations process. whether you agree with donald trump on this or not, if congress doesnt do his job, the executive fills that...

It? you heard the democrat chair of the house intel committee over the weekend saying this is going to be a moment of truth for my republican colleagues. will they allow this to happen and allow congresss authority to be seeded to the president here on this? i wonder if you think they will act as in vote against the president on this one? >> you will see more of a vote against trump in the past. we will get to a veto proof majority? more republicans will peel off on this than they have on any tr...

President and his allies can make and maybe they will win in court. but being legal and the right thing to do, thats a different argument here. when youre talking about the separation of powers and talking about what some people consider to be an abuse of power, a president going around congress, it is a major, major action and it needs to be noted. >> it does. and this is -- this is a long-term problem and this is a problem thats gone on for a long time before this point where congress has cont...

Questions of whether or not republicans can govern. >> so youre saying the vote tomorrow, it has -- for the good of the republican party, it has to pass? >> yeah. this is about a lot more than health care. its about whether or not we can pass tax reform, about whether or not the president can pass an infrastructure bill, a working appropriations process. this is a gut check moment. while its familiar to me and dan and folks in the capitol. when the food comes -- >> late nights. >> this is a gut ...