World. And welcome to hannity. History on Capitol Hill Tonighel ,republican lawmakers joininawg all 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. To the first time in our nations history. And mccarthy will not seeks speakership again. Now, sources telling mt agaie au hour, some House Republicans have been in Contactblican Withd have started an effort to draft former president donal ad to bee the next speaker. N toldi hat pres that President Trump might be open to Helpingid Ort Term the republican party, at least in the short term if necessarys ,if its needed anyway. But heres former Speaker Mccarthy. Earlier tonight. Loo lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight maybe in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. Ill have the conference pick wie. Today s i think today was a political decis. Thingshe democratwa and i think that i think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. And they just started removing ine and theycommitte just started doing the other things. And my fear is the institution fell today because you cant do the job if eight people, you have 94 or 96 of your entire conference, but eight people can partner with the whole other side. N . How do you govern . And for them to make a motion on because i made a decision for the country that they agreed with, but they choosee to do the othetor, that becomes a problem. Now, this all went down after a motion to vacate was put forward by florida congressman matt gaetz, citing issues because of a recent bipartisan resolution, a c. R. Gh to fund the government through ofdnovember and a lac midnk an on a number of bills, Appropriations Billsions bil ant went forward with a move to oust Speaker Mccarthy. Succesnts fell anyway, given gop the slim gop majority needed only a handful otherans to republicans to get it done. But now uncertainty reigns g io. Supreme on capitol hill. In truth, gate s of the republicans, they did have legitimate complaints returning to regular order passing Appropriations Bills, single issuassing e, balanced budget amendment, term limits, all promise. Icism, fair criticism. But many of those measures could have been deal bhoset, especially in the future, especially issues that would neve ould r have been law at this itme really came down to the fiscal in play here. E. The appropriations process, for example. But the question is this. And every every republican needs to be asking this tonight, was thiss the be strategic and tactical approach at thians moment . Now, there were very, veryre viable alternatives, plans put together by Freedom Caucus members, people like congressman chip roy, who will join us tonight, and Byron Donalds and scott perry, for example. One plan cut well from them, cut spending by a whopping 8 and also had historic bordermeas measures attached, but was opposed by gatesurwas oppo, a fr republicans. And that didnt go far. That left chip roy kind. Of speechless. That plan would have allowed more time needed e for the Appropriations Bills to be passed. And thede second option actually had a 30 cuta in discretionary30 spending. Incd and included, by the way,ican the republican partys border bill, h. R. Par two. That would have been a great alternative. That, again, Wouldgrt Altern Hao resulted in the full 12 Appropriations Bills having been ations b on and hopefully passe so today, the Question Wpassede All was the Nuclear Option needed . Was it worth it . E nuclea well, i can tell you right now, i dont know. Time will certainly tell whether this is a good move or a bad move, but One Realitypubl will not change. Republicans have a minusculeican majority, whoever the speaker is, and it is made u spepakers, of despair. Left groups ranging from moderate left to Freedom Caucus, cons. Vativeof now, gates says that he was ripping the bandaid off the status quo in the washington swamp. But the House Oversight committee chairman, Jim Jordan Le Swamp ,had a different take. T lets hear him. On january third, we said the 118th Congress is about three Thingsee Pass The Bills T that need pass. Do the Oversight Work that needs to be done. Ne band stop the inevitable omns that comes from the United StatesSenated Statee right befe the holidays. Kevin mccarthy has bee n rock solid on all three. We have passed the bills. We told the American People we would pass 87,000 Irate Agentshe that built that bill, passed parents bill of rights. That bill passed energ htyecurit legislation, passed Border Security, Immigration Enforcement legislatioy,n, the strongest bill ever to pass the Congress Passed earlie tr this year. We have done what we told we them we were going to dogo. Anso all right. Now, keep in mind, republicans hold a ninld e vote majority in one half of one third of the federal government making up that very slim majority as a Coalitioslim Majn of lawmakers. You got the Freedom Caucus, the tuesday, thursday, frida y group, the study group, along mr with moderate republicans, manay from districts that biden won bn in 20 2018, to be exact. To be now, bringing that group together on anything is not anan easy feat. But in eas the end republicans. Let me warn you tonight, you will succeed or you will fail ll succe together. That is undeniable. Wiill, mccarthy accomplished a lot, including a Serious Investigation into bidens Bribert Includiny laundering al, which is ongoing. An Impeachment Inquiry that is now picking up steam and investigation into bidens Weaponized Fbi and doj. Fbi multiple major pieces of including a Border Security bill that i just mentioned, ment, to stop bidens plan to hire 80,000 new irs agents, a bill to stop Big Government restrictions on gas stoves and other appliancesernment on another bill to repeal the worst parts of the so called inflational the reducti. And thats just the tip of the iceberg. Thbut now, without a speaker at all matters involving the Houslving The E come to a gg halt. The gop investigations will bell. Zero republican bills will be sent to the Senatewill Be Ll and republican infighting that will take center stage, tsd which is exactly what Democrats Thd The Media mo ta mob desperay want. And they want to continue for a long period of timant to cr e now, President Trump, earlier today, even in the midst of whats goineaeven in ts g ia took time to post this on truth social. Why is it that republicans are always fighting among themselves . Whrepublicans ary arent they ft the radical left democrats who are destroying our country . Oh, i happen to agree with the president. Presre now a year away we are n from the single most pivotal election of our lifetime. Its all on the line , its a. Roying democrats are destroying the rule of law. Oe, equalic t application of our laws is dead. And by, and, by th the way, as , donald trump and his family are no donald w being targeted s this country has never seen before. Joe bider seen n and his family are shielded, protected around every turn by joes weaponized, doj. The border is an absolute disaster nightmare. E, National Security risk. Our economy is disaster. E suff americans are suffering than in myinflat point lifetime. Inflation is through the roof. Gas pricesio t the roo are throf and going higher, by the way. And our commander in Chiefy Thes Real Significant Cognitive issues that everybody the world can see because its that transparent. He is neither physically nor mentally fit to serve this country. House republicans cant canse solve their differences behind closed doors. How about you ge ht in a room, you throw away your phone and mayb you e you in that roome order pizza and dont come out until you agre untile. Approp knowing how important these Appropriations Bills were. I everrier criticism. Why did the republicans take off the month of augus month t this may all turn out fine. Ne, im not hitting the panic tonight. However, the American Peoples patiencet the , it will run out quickly here. And so the gop take my advice if you want. It seems a lot of people never take iwant, itt. Be careful and you better get a new speaker quickly. Democrat they want you inay complete disarray. They wan. T a distraction away from their failed policies and their feeblepo president. And theyd really love a few moderate republicans to peel a off and actually vote for a democrat for speaker. So will the gocratp behind the w speaker . Will anyone even want the job woulnt will this end in a disas . Wecannot answer that question. But time will tell. We expect a vote on t Ato New Speaker sometime next week. Chairman jim jordan will join us in a momentin a. To first here with reaction, we have former speaker of the house Fo Speakerf Thx news Contw Gingrich is with us, sir. Welcome. Lets get your overallith r, on this today. Well, first, i think its a very sad day because i thinki Kevin Mccarthy is one of the most talented leaders ive ever worked e ev with. I think that he accomplished an amazing amount for having a small majority and being having to take on both the senatetake o and the white. And i think this is really i a tragic outcome. This was a leader who both gained seats in 2020, gained 2 seats in 2022, increased the number of women members, increaser d the number of veterans, increased the number of minority members a ,and he had a vision forlets be a better future. And lets be clear her here,e. You know, if if the University Of Georgia Bulldogs were the Number One Team in the country right now, if you started a gameyou started r of the members of the offensive squad decided they werdee actually on the alabama side and began tackling your ow andn people, you probably get them off the field. Well, think about what we sawt, today. 4 percent, 4 decided they werw morally superior or soellect intellectually pure, so patrioticalluay better that thee would side with the democrats. And thats what they didand th in order to defeat the entire 9 republican caucus, 96 of the republicans voted for mccarthy. 4 voted against him. From my as a longtime republican activist, there are traitorsme. All eight of them should, in fact, be primaried. They should all be drive n what of public life. What they did was to go to the other teamth to cause total chaos. We ought to be focusing on biden on t we ought to be focusing o on the economy. We ought to be focusing on the bordeughtr. Ead yo instead, youre going to get a week or ten days of the media focusingut a on republican disarray. Its an astonishingly destructive behavior by a handful of egocentric people who thinkin theyre superior to 96 of the conference. Look, i do think on the one on kevin side, let me let me analyze this more than anything else. It is hard to appreciate Appry Majorityard to that Kevin Mccarthy was working with. You have moderatewith. S libeo republicans, 18 of them, you know, in districtsf that fr joe biden. They want to keep their jobs. So wan theyre not going to beo as conservative on a lot of these issues. So its Hardt Of Theue to bringl caucus like that together. Its like herding cats. I wouldnt the job. You couldnt pay me to do that job. Theres noe job amount of moned take for that job. On the other hand, i do have a little frustration with kevin, too. Why . With t hehe, as promised, go forward with the Appropriations Bills regular order, which, by the way, you broughty back you were speaker. That led, that to the first andt balanced budgets we had in decades on both ends. So you found way to get that done. Why did they go away for all this when they should have . But he this fight was coming. Ag why didnt they go awausy . Look, let me answer two verydifn different levels. First of all, the house Througlh Regular Order has passed 70 of the government in appropriations. The senate has approp passed zero. Zero. So kevin actually was on a track and in the nexthey two weeks, assuming they can get around to it, they willpropi actually finish all of the appropriations. I think that was just baloneati second, all of theseiden 18 republicans and the biden districts, they actuallyct voted for the two conservative continuing resolutions you described earlier. They voted for them even though they were very conservative. Who killed them . Rie hard right. Why did the hard right kill them . Because they were against any continuingghcause th resolution. Well, if you didnt want didn the government closed, if you didntt want the military not to be paid, if you didnt want the Border Patrol didn not to be paid, and the hardht say goint says to you,s i doing nothing, what are you going to do . And kevin did what you had to do what i would have done, frankly, in his case. But it wasnt the 18 biden districts. There was a problem. Thats there was hard core, hard right people. And thosrde high right people want to go back home and explain why did they think why r. S bette now what they need to be held t their feet to the fire. Why did they think ithre, Wht Ws Better to be two solid conservative continuings. Resolutions that, as you sointed out, include the border, includes deep spending cuts, did everything they claim for, you know, why they did it . Because ultimately matt gaetz, who hates the lets be clear, he hates kevin mccarth, ar hy, y determined about it to find a way to get to toda. O today. Y. Let me be iti thinkled hi its disgraceful and i hope they expelm him fromng the conference. I would have gone along. You had Byron DonaldsFreedom Caucus member scott perry, Freedom Caucus member chip roy. Hell be on the show tonight. Freedom caucus member you know ,they had two separate plans. They put togethe tr and you are 100 right. They were voted down by the conservativerivoted dos. That would have been the perfect bridge to get to. Number one, have cuts, have Border Security cuts he in spending and get us to the holy grail, which waspropri the Appropriations Bills that would have been completed. That to meat t was the answer. T. And no, they went against it. I dont know why becausewhy. But consent consider. Well, you do know why. Consider the moderates a you described all voted for these veryll tough, very conservative bills. It was the hard right that voted against themainst th. And people back home want to take a look at how their member voted and askthe mr are just terminally stupid. Do you do you prefer to cove . R everything screwed up . And in terms of the people who voted today with Thee Eight Teds be clear, theyre not republicans. They shouldnt, frankle not y, should in th i wouldnt if i were speaker, they wouldnt be in the conferenceconfer. Id say to them, you proved to me youre hakeem jeffries. This is the conference ought fo to be for republicans more than sps as speaker. That doesnt work either. Well, bless him, will take the speakership if give up the investigation of biden. If you give up the Effor T Up Th to cut spending, if you give up the effort to stop regulations, if you give up the fight against woke policy. I mean, hes available pol and maybe these eight guys would be more comfortable being with Hakeeeight Gum Jeffrn and that totally insane policy rather than pretending that. Theyre republicans. They better get this fixed fast. Tter getthe patience of the American People will run, run out very quickly. Speaker gingrich, thank you. All right. Theaking right now, sourcespeakx news confirming the current majority leadeerr, steve scalis, is asking members of congress wh make hiscalise m the next sp. There was some question about whether or not that would happenhappen and because he hah dealing with some health issues. Meanwhilee Speaker Mccarthyt is not the only person getting the boot tonight. Pelosihe onight she was just eve from her special office in theci Capitol Building in what some believe w