>> dana would tell us. >> right out of the gate there was -- we needed 218 votes. and there was an attempt there to basically wound the leadership. >> that was a worst coup attempt than was reported at the time. >> here's. why every republican has a chance to run for speaker or for leader of the republican party. and there's a whole set of offices. they never challenged speaker boehner. they never challenge leader cantor. they don't do anything. then they were meeting privately to create this spectacle on the house floor. they never vote for anything. and look, i disagree with leadership a lot. but i don't go out and publicly embarrass our entire conference at the beginning of the conference. and that's what happened back in january. >> to your point about democrats right now, to be fair, if you look at the votes over the past two days since you've started this piecemeal approach, you guys have been united, even people like you who don't agree