Following the ouster of Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house. This morning, we want to hear from you, your message to washington. Do you want members of congress to compromise or stick to their principles . When some republicans saying Kevin Mccarthy compromised too much and some democrats saying he did not compromise enough. That is our question for all of you this morning. Republicans 202 7488001, democrats 202 7488000, independents 202 7488002. All of you can text us and include your first name, city, and state. You can join us on facebook. Com cspan or at x with the handle at cspan wj. We stick to the principles, or compromise, what is your view of congress . The house will return to washington and one order of business will be the election of a new speaker. Here are the candidates. Republican jim jordan of ohio and scull under speaker Kevin Mccarthy. These two say they are running from the top spot. There are potential candidates, mike johnson, Jodey Arrington, and possible Steve Scalise and others. Lets hear from President Biden who yesterday was asked about working with the new republican leadership. Here is what he had to say. The rest of your domestic and Foreign Policy initiative being in peril because of what we saw yesterday area dysfunction in congress and chaos on the house. Does that concern you in any way . The dysfunction always bothers me. There will be some that try to come in, i am sure. There are extreme mega republicans who would like to eliminate everything up done but i do not think that will get they. Host President Biden when asked about working with the new republican readership. This morning what you think democrats and republicans should do . Should they work togeth a compromise or stick to their principles . Mac in california up early with us ts morning democratic caller go ahead. Let me push the button. Caller yeah. Can you hear me ok . Host yes we can now. Caller ive been watching you for years. And sticking to the issues, i am from california probably about 100 miles from where Speaker Mccarthy represents. I am a very active teamster. Mccarthy gave too much away. Matt gaetz, i have to agree with one thing he says we have to address the 33 trillion. Im proud of the democratic members for standing strong and standing united. Things will work out, things will settle down. From has the board now, the republicans will find their way. Hopefully they will come to their senses and work with the democrats for america. America has always been great, but we are greater when we Work Together. Regardless of what parties and our politics, we have to start putting America First and forget about this lunatic trump. Host two questions you started out saying the former speaker gave too much away. That sounds like you think he compromise and too much. Caller with the 15 votes to get the speakership, one vote to draw him out, how stupid is that . You know what i mean . Host ok so you think, you blame him because he negotiated the ability. He allowed the conservatives one person to bring emotion caller yeah he wanted. I follow pull politics big time. I am a political junkie. He wanted the speakers gavel. He would do anything to get it. Some guys want a title and i want a leader that does not want to title that wants to deliver whatever democrat or republican. And i vote several republicans for city council, travel out of the air force base people that i research. And we campaign for them. I could care less what party they are, especially with all the politics. At the national level, the whole world is watching us. Come on, i want republicans, many of them who are great people and they served our country. They keep the other way. Supporting trump now is like standing at that host ok i dont want to go too far down that road. The second plate point you made is lawmakers need to put America First. How do you respond to the argument that democrats did not do that when they sided with congressman matt gaetz and they voted to oust Speaker Mccarthy. They could have voted for the institution to keep him in place. . Caller sometimes to get to the finish line or to the future that will bring us back together, sometimes you have to hold the line. Its going to hurt if you get it. We are definitely in uncharted waters. This is never happened before, but i think they will choose a better leader now whether it is scalise or jordan you know i dont want to get into personalities. They will work through this. Im glad they went home to calm down. They got to get their caucus together. But there will be people that come to their senses. I know they will not jump ship to the democrats, we just want them to come back towards the center and let the matt gaetz and desantis from florida, the far right is too far, far right. Host alright mac says compromise. Donald u. S. Florida, republican. Caller well host you have to meet your television. Caller im sorry, of got to go. I dont know how to do this. Im sorry. Bye. Host ok, call in, mute the television, talk through your phone, that is how it is done. We have dave on the line. Caller hello we have a district that will be in place. I want to thank congressman gaetz and the other brave seven from trying to end the shutdown of the biting power of the American People. Shutdown cry high prices at the supermarket. And all the necessities of life. People cannot afford to stay alive. Voting for continued resolution of the biden hello see budget which caused ms. Problem, the cr stands for continuing to rob. You are continuing to rob the American People. It is easy for senators to be critical of what the house does because they have a sixyear term and they will not get blamed for a bad budget. The house is what will get blamed. Democrats and republicans should Work Together but the goal should be costofliving. This is the key issue now. People cannot afford to live. Congress was sent here to do that and if they have to vacate the speaker or your individual voters have to vacate your representative on election day then that is what has to be done because it is about the cost of living. No one has taken any action on this. As far as ukraine funding, the biden budget and ukraine funding has taken the food out of the mouth of tens of billions of American People the way no for an enemy could ever do. No foreign enemy could come and take the food out of their mouth the way the biden budget is doing so. So the bottom line is thank you ralph eight and it is refreshing to see that there are still people in america with a spine. Host ok dave. For you and others listening to the reader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell yesterday was talking with reporters about the ouster of Kevin Mccarthy as speakers and vowing to work with democrats. I would like to start by thanking Speaker Mccarthy for his service. We had a great personal relationship. Weve been trying to lead to very different parts of the american government. I think he has much to be proud of. Avoided a Government Shutdown. We did the inevitable with regard to the debt ceiling. And one person, and i am, one person, is extremely grateful for his service. I have no message to give to republicans except for one. I hope to the next speaker is gets rid of the motion to vacate. I think it makes the speakers job impossible. The American People expect us to have a functioning government. On the senate side, we need to get our, as many appropriation bills passed as possible. The majority leaders indicated that is what he would like to do as well and he will have plenty of cooperation from us in trying to achieve as close to a regular appropriations process as we possibly can. Host the republican leader in the senate, which mcconnell, saying Senate Republicans will cooperate with democrats on the appropriations assets going forward. Do you appropriation process going forward. Do you agree with him or do you think they should stand their ground . No ukraine funding, no to other provisions and insistence that order security provision be put into any larger bill or another continued resolution. Thats, of course, made its return here in washington id in midnovember. What you say on this question . Caller i do not think that democrats realize that mccarthy put out, they voted for the, not to have one person be able to put the speaker out when they had that vote. This is a mess that the republicans have gotten themselves into. Ever since mccarthy agreed to that when he went, in order to be elected speaker. So he reached what he sold. Now hes going back and saying the democrats put him out, it is the republicans who put him out. They voted again and again until they put him out. What will happen to the next speaker . You just heard Mitch Mcconnell he thinks we need to get rid of the idea. It is all on the republican and they in following this guy named donald trump and this is the whole they have been digging the last six years. It has come to roost and now they say weve got to Work Together. Thats all i have to say. Host you are a democrat calling from alabama. Matt gaetz after the vote to oust Kevin Mccarthy as speaker he told reporters that the next round of vote for speaker that he would not sits. The motion to vacate by one person continues to be part of any rules package for the congress. Here is one republican from florida jimenez tweeting this out. Im not appointing anyone for speaker intel there is a reform to the motion to vacate. The coup against Speaker Mccarthy was despicable and can never happen again. No one can govern appropriately with being taken on by fringe process makers. Christina calling in. You want to see republicans compromise or stick to their votes . Caller well, really this is all just a big rig. It is a big set up. They getting out of the constitution. It is a big set up. There is no oneway or the other. It is already set with what they are doing. The bidens and whoever, the liberals, conservatives who ever you want to call it. They are democrats. All this is it is about trump, the stocks, and getting the congress did not do their jobs so they can get to new congress over to convert all the currency over to more money. Digital money. That is what they are doing, that is what the whole thing is all about. When it is all said and done. Whether it is directly or indirectly it does not matter. It is the truth. The bottom line is this, theres a lot of craft going a lot of crap going on. And they are doing this with nobody a hind it. They are not asking society at all. Host richelle in san antonio. Democratic caller. Caller the woman who just spoke seems to illustrate certain people live in an alternate universe. I do not feel that the blame is simply for democrats is wellplaced. The maga plays by the rules that have been set up and with the cycle of voting record the agreed to. It is crazy, absolutely crazy. Now what do we have to do . We will have the speaker get mad and slammed the gavel down and then he wants people who were not even there to vote to vacate the office. It is insane. Now, as far as the people who are being offered up as candidates, that cannot happen. And Marjorie Greene wants trump. And there are rules that govern the speaker of the house. Scalise is tainted by his support of kkk and affiliation with them. Jordan i have questions about him with legalities and he was a coach. And trump of course he has been indicted so he will never be the speaker of the house. We look at something i think it is jim patricks he is embarrassing to the american government. His picture is not even hung in the hall of leadership. Mccarthy used the system, no leadership, week, a glory hound and gave everything away and allowed matt gaetz to do this to him. Now we will be on another cliff around thanksgiving because i do not believe that the republicans will be able to feel a candidate is worthy of being the speaker of the house. Matt gaetz house. Again, it is the speaker of the trust. Of the people. Voting one thing and then going on television and saying another thing. Host New York Times reporter covering capitol hill rights in the front page of the newspaper this morning contenders via to find a speaker. Mccarthy was undone. In his analysis piece he says he failed to master the art of corralling a deeply divided republican majority that could never bring itself to rally behind him when it came time to choose normalcy over chaos. With gop base increasingly hungry for insurgency and confrontation is mr. Mccarthy down himself out of step a consequence likely to plague any candidate that concedes him. Mccarthy gave concession after concession to win their vote. The hard right, that is to become speaker. He went back on some one he some of the ones he cared about most. It proved it is impossible to accomplish in a divided government. That is the peace in the New York Times this morning. Don in indianapolis, independent. Good morning. What do you think . Caller good morning. I think both sides, really right now at least they are both sticking to their guns. We can try to start making american number one. I think they should stick to their guns. This is the big show so you might as well sit back and enjoy the ride. Sit back and enjoy the strange times. Host that is alan, brooklyn. Democratic caller. Caller good morning thank you. I will try to be brief. The republicans arrested under educated about the basics of the constitution but the house and selection of the speaker. And did not do as good a job as cspan does on educating the public there would be less confusion here. We been misinformed about the nature of the speaker and the way he is supposed to be selected. And those that provide for his selection in the house have a mechanism very similar to what was originally established with the revenue by the government which is supposed to be by a majority of the vote of the members of the house. That reflected the majority of the population of the founding era because there were no parties and there was no such thing as gerrymandering. So that there was no conversion of a majority of the population in the minority of the house. When you had the ability to use partisan gerrymandering to pick house members, you can have a majority of the population having fewer seats. Therefore, allowing the majority of those seated to pick a speaker and then they pick someone who represents the minority of the relation in control. There is no way we should be doing the speaker selection in a highly partisan manner that we do now as long as parties and gerrymandering are in existence, we should be allowing all the members, democrats and republicans to have and eat voice throughout the term of any house and not have anything like a hamster ruled that wipes out the ability of the other party to even have a voice in legislation. That is contrary to the constitutional clause. It reflects so much of what is going on in the last few centuries. We are already nonauthored government. And in the college they are waiting the vote now we make more and more rules that continue to enhance the power of the minority by using things like the filibuster and the senate. Host ok allen in brooklyn there. He missed it at the top in case you missed it at the top we give you the latest of the potential candidates jim jordan ,of ohio said he will seek the speakership along with Steve Scalise serving serving as majority leader. If he runs there will be a race for his slot as well. The potential republican candidates for those who have been mentioned in other as people would like to see in the post is kevin hearns, mike johnson Jodey Arrington others have mentioned Byron Donalds of florida and tom emmer of minnesota. Those are some of the names being floated. The next potential speaker of the house of representatives. This morning as we wait for the race to get underway next week in washington we want to know what is your message to congress . To compromise . Stick to prince oles . Steve scalise recently stick to principles . Steve scalise recently talking to reporters had this to say about his health situation. I, a little over a month ago was diagnosed with why loma as you know, but we had quick decisions to make in the hospital and that was do we go into an aggressive form of chemotherapy, my oncologist in new orleans who would continue to consult with on a regular basis has been phenomenal at walking me through what i need to do to first focus on my health. That has been the main focus. How do we address the cancer because the cancer put in the hospital and was doing a lot of damage to my body. We had to get control over that and have a plan and luckily they had a plan and treatment that have been approved by the fda for many years on this form of cancer that many people have in using for decades. Thank god. And i have made a decision to aggressively pursue it. I am a month into the treatments. The way that it works with this form of cancer is that it goes a little over 3. 5 weeks of treatment and then they want to evaluate and see how your body is responding. They make tweaks and then you do another 3. 5 week of treatment for a. For a period of months until they feel like you dont need treatment anymore. Last week i did a full round of evaluations thats where i was. With my doctors running a lot of tests, they came back with the test and the good news is the cancer has dropped dramatically because of the successful chemotherapy attacking cancer. Thank god the prayers have been answered. We continue to follow my doctors advice and my doctor said you can come back to work. Host congressman Steve Scalise the majority leader last wednesday talking about his Current Health status. When he put out a statement to his colleagues abo running speaker, this is what he told them. I firmly believe in the confidence conference f it was the members of his team that saved my life othfield. I asked myself why aft nearly losing my life i would want to back tha