omnibus budget and laughed him off. it's traditional for house leaders to rally their base by flaying the senate but that looked -- that was such an irresponsible thing to do and it just really was a measure of -- >> it was a letter signed on to by a number of freedom caucus members. >> look, mccarthy knows that mcconnell did him the biggest favor in the world by passing that. the only thing they didn't do was pass the debt ceiling. should have done that. they all knew the omnibus needed to happen. if this group can't get 218 votes will pass a spending bill? >> it's interesting you mex stefanik because byron donalds ran against her. a republican from florida, ran against her for chair, conference chair this cycle. and his theory of the case was she should be running for something higher-up instead of remaining as the number three or four as conference chair within the house gop and so you wonder first of all what happens to kevin mccarthy if he's not elected speaker? i mean, does he revert to majority leader or does he just