kevin mccarthy who slimly even won the majority thought he was the heir apart and wouldn't have a challenge is a huge strategic miscalculation, but he made the mistake rather than catering to his moderates to his majority makers and trying to build a coalition there he has made extraction after extraction and concession to the far right who are never going to be with him. he should have called john boehner and paul ryan if he wanted to know how it would go for him. >> if you are a member of the freedom caucus, this is a brilliant strategy from the limited perspective of wanting to flex your power. so they humiliate kevin mccarthy in a historic way and then, what, steve scalise becomes the speaker but he knows how serious these guys are, that if he makes one wrong move, he will very quickly be replaced. >> i want to go to melanie zanona standing by on the hill. melanie, what are you hearing? >> reporter: as this vote has