James who wouldnt vote for anything even when it was a good deal that had been negotiated just because it was voting to raise the debt ceiling or it was mr. Mccarthy make it a little better. James how are those folks you know them very well, going to respond when a deal gets cut to get to 60 or whatever 70 good. Do you think now that there is unified republican control, those guys are going to come along . Do you think youre still going to have a dozen, two dozen members who just are going to want perfect be the enemy of the good . Mr. Mccarthy do you know our conference . Were a microcosm of society. Members are all different. I think structure dictates behavior. There was a perfect structure where you had a Different Party in the presidency. You had a senate that was slower. You could do those things. And if you you utilized the Freedom Caucus to do that. It made the House Republicans weaker because you had to negotiate with nancy pelosi. If we stuck together, then were always stronger. I think youre going to see us sticking together more. I think there is less ability nor the Freedom Caucus to do those types of things im sure those districts, donald trump did the best in. It would be hard for them to stand up if president elect trump is asking for this fundamental change and they are saying no to it. I think thats harder. I think were more united. James because of the election . Mr. Mccarthy speaker ryan has done a great job uniting the conference. James the sequester, you have military resources in your district. Obviously the sequester has been hard mr. Mccarthy the sequester part is difficult. Because that came from the Obama Administration. And the challenge of it is we should do our own work to work that out. If you want to do something investment in the military, that means you got to go do all this other stuff domestically that maybe might not need it or not where the investment s if were able to be together, i think we solve all that. And we can be. James can you see lifting the sequester or getting rid of it . Mr. Mccarthy youre not going to lift cap. You can talk about where you make the investment. You got enough money, you invest, prioritize where you want to do it. In the sequester youre not being able to prioritize. I look at the fact that one of the rules if you get elected you should take the responsibility of where you should make the decision where to spend that money. I dont want to go in debt. I got only a certain amount of money, but i want to invest in the right place that. Would solve some of the problems. James talk about california. Your home state. You are lucky to represent the most republican district. Mr. Mccarthy Duncan Hunter does. James california is one of the very few states where Hillary Clinton did better than barack obama. Why do you think that if you talk about this popular vote and Electoral College vote. You cannot have an election where you determine the outcome one way and argue after the election you did better here. Like if the game of baseball is, you have the most scores you win, but i got the most home runs, it doesnt work, right . But if the game is played, i would have played it differently. She beat donald trump by three million votes. So if you take california out, donald trump won the popular vote in 49 states. So theres other theres way that is can always make an argument one way or another. If we elect our president by Electoral College, whoever got to 270 is going to become the president. You cant argue the other ones are out. California, we did not lose one congressional race in the democrats played very hard. We came close to winning one against bera in sacramento with scott jones. That wasnt decided until last week. I still think california is a place that we could teach the rest of the nation how republicans can win. Give you an example. The district next to mine is one that is 72 hispanic district. David valadao represents that district. David valadao won by 57 of the vote. In a year where Hillary Clinton did very well. So i think we have abilities to expand. I think we can teach the rest how to do it. James on the popular vote question, following up on that. Donald trump one of the things he tweeted on sunday was he said he would have won the popular vote o if not for millions of fraudulently cast ballots in california. Youre from california. Any signs of fraudulent voting . Mr. Mccarthy the election is over. Im not into this recount. Im not we have the campaign. I think everybody was ready for the campaign to be over. We made our decision. Now govern. Whats interesting is all the arguments that were prior would you respect the election or not, its over. Lets govern. Lets move on. James you didnt see any signs of fraud in your home state . Mr. Mccarthy i say lets govern. We have elected officials that carry this. County by county is different. I could go through every aspect. Do you allow an absentee ballot in one to go and one not. They can make any argument they want. You can put a fact based upon that argument. The election somplete the public wants us to govern now. The recounts not going to be any different as you go through. Maybe a few votes one way or another. But its only counting the votes it has. James i get what youre saying. The public does want to move forward. Most people dont care about this. Its important for the legitimacy of the election that the American People believe that the votes were counted fairly. That there wasnt widespread fraudulent lens. Mr. Mccarthy lets move on. James was there . Mr. Mccarthy i looked at the election. I saw the results come n i trust them just as i trusted them in the past. You can trust and verify. I dont have a problem. I think its time to go. James moving on. Donald trump sort of the man the leader. You got behind him in may. You agreed to be a delegate for him at a time when a lot of republicans here around town were not willing to do so. You kind of helped in a lot mr. Mccarthy i was smart, wasnt i . James now hes president. Hes coming in. We talked a lot about the policy agenda. There is still there are some conservatives who are worried about some things about him. Kind of touching on a couple of the issues that have come up a lot the last few weeks. The potential conflicts of interest. The fact that hes not following the traditions that some other president s have followed. Does that worry you at all . Mr. Mccarthy i dont feel thats fair. Let me tell you why. I see this in a microlevel where there will be somebody who runs for congress who has never been elected before. Has been a Small Business owner. And they are running because they want to change the country. They never think before they are going to run im going to have to change everything in my business because they dont know. They havent had to do any of that, right . Then when they get elected the Ethics Committee comes to them and says you have to do this or that. They tell to you do their certain thing and change their mind. They never thought of that. They want to serve. We set the rules up to really punish you if you have been in business. Because we start with the idea that you do something corrupt. I think the aspect that when he did don, he took this very seriously. Most of you probably know him. No ones going to tell me hes not one of the most ethical attorneys hes seen. He knows the law well. I think by naming him one of the very first, hell work all that out. It is not the role if i am going to run for president , its laying out the worrying about what im going to do with my business. If i won, here the Legal Counsel. I did well in business. Ill let the Legal Counsel figure out what legal thing im supposed to do and not do. By appointing him solves that answer. James could you envision House Republicans doing oversight of the Trump Presidency if some of these lines did get blurred . Mr. Mccarthy i would assume that take donald trump out of it. Oversight committee is oversight no matter who. You only to oversight the same thing for the appointment of the attorney general and others. The same reason why my office looks across the Supreme Court and there is a blindfold on. This country has got to come together. We got to stop being red and blue states. We got to stop being just because you are of one party. Oversight is oversight. I want oversight to hold me accountable, too. Its not based upon is it donald, its based upon what is the role of your jobs. Carry out your jobs. And put blinders on it. James you mentioned the party is more unified. People have gotten onboard. Mr. Mccarthy winning helps do that. James we have to wrap up in the next two or three minutes. Taking a step back, you got the majority six years ago. If you could go back and talk to Kevin Mccarthy the end of november, 2010, what advice would you give yourself . Mr. Mccarthy 2010 . James now that you have been in the majority for six years. You have been around the track a few times. Mr. Mccarthy i would have asked our members not to make expectations higher than you could actually achieve. I always believe surpass expectations. I think we told the American Public certain things that we could do that we couldnt do. We should have brought the public along at each step of the way. But ill give you this. The senate never would have been a republican majority had the house not become a republican majority. You would not have had cory gardner, you would not have had louisiana or others. You watched where this country has trended. If you watch where republicans were when barack obama took over, the number of governors, number the legislative seats and others, we have never been stronger. But we did not run to win a majority. We ran to change a contry. So we should country. So we should not miss this window of opportunity. When you ask me about the number of days am i going to judge. Im going to judge on getting the policy right. Im going to judge on having an honest and fair government. Its not are you going to use your power to benefit one person or party . No. Ive watched that. I didnt like all that that took place. Why dont we believe a legacy that brings us back to three coequal branches. That keeps people more honest and in check. The power rests with the people. For everything said about this election, i dont care what side you are on, you should feel good about the country. Because the pundits were wrong and everybody else. What does that tell you . Nobody controls this government but the people. If the people get frustrated, they can change direction. Regardless what everybody experts telling them is going to happen. To me, thats exciting. Im excited and i feel very honored to be able to walk into that building and be a small part of it. Lets let history write for this window, for this moment in time, did we achieved what we said to the public we would achieve. James Kevin Mccarthy, House Majority leader, thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you to everyone who came. Thank you to everyone in our television audience. Watching online and on cspan. Mr. Mccarthy i read this every morning. I read it all the way through. He puts a lot of my instagram picks up. James follow him. Mr. Mccarthy no one does my instagram but me. If you like it, give him credit. If not, tell me to improve. James thank you again. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] senator bob corker met with president elect donald trump at the trump tower in new york city. The tennessee republican, who chairs the Senate Foreign relations committee, has been mentioned as a possible paper secretary of state in the Trump Administration. It has been an honor to have the kind of meeting that i had today. We had a wide ranging meeting, a couple meetings. His instincts on Foreign Policy are very, very good. He has the greatest opportunity in modern times to really strengthen our nation, and security interests around the world and to help us, economically. Again, i have enjoyed the opportunity to be here. It is an honor. There are a number of outstanding individuals he has been talking with. I am glad to be here and glad to see more fully what his views on the world are. I think he will make a tremendous difference for our nation and for the world as our next president. [inaudible] sen. Corker say that again. [inaudible] sen. Corker again, i am here, and there are discussions underway about other things. This is a decision he needs to make. The states role is so important, the need to choose someone that he is very comfortable with, that he knows there will be no daylight between him and them. The secretary of state needs to speak fully for the president. That is a decision he is going to to have to make. It is an honor to be here, i relish the role i have been able to play. I think that anybody who feels that they can further our countrys National Interests around the world would obviously want to talk about that, and be honored to serve. [inaudible] sen. Corker we did not talk about that. We put together a very good and rapid team, put rapidly together. I think he will make the decision when he is comfortable. My sense is, he has narrowed it down to a very small group of people. Again, a distinguished group of people. He has a choice to make, we feel more comfortable with. Who can best serve our nation in this capacity. Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley met with senator jeff sessions, who is president elect Donald Trumps pick to be attorney general. Before the meeting, senator grassley says he expects confirmation hearings for senator sessions to be held before the inauguration. Senator sessions, should people lose their citizenship for burning the flag . Sen. Sessions i have some things im going to talk to you about, i will start the conversation there. I am not going to do that in front of the cameras right now, but i do want to say that everybody on the Judiciary Committee knows senator sessions well. They know him to be an admirable man. They know him to be a man of integrity. And he knows the Justice Department well, not just from serving on the Judiciary Committee and having oversight and policy for that department as a senator, but he had a long relationship of the u. S. Attorney in other positions within the department of justice. So, i think that knowing the department of justice and knowing senator sessions the way i do, we know that he is going to be an evenhanded enforcer of the law as the chief Law Enforcement officer of the federal government. Senator feinstein previously said he would get a fair hearing. I expect that he will get a fair hearing. It will probably be a tough hearing, as well. Everyone expects when youre putting somebody in an important position of attorney general, you want to make sure that all bases are covered. Theyll be true both republican and democrats. The standard procedure is, for the committee, to send all of our nominees the standard questionnaire. We have sent that to senator sessions. You to return the as quickly as you can. When that questionnaire is returned, that will be at a time that we set a date for our hearing. We expect that to be before the inauguration for the reason that that has been done in the past, for the first term of obama it was done. It was done for holder. It was done for ashcroft. There is clear precedent for our handling it that way. I believe that is all i have to say at this particular time. Thank you for covering us, it is a very important position to be covering. You had a big turnout, thank you all for coming. We will start our meeting now. [indiscernible] come on, we have to clear the room. President elect trump has chosen georgia congressman tom price to head up the department of health and Human Services. Last june, congressman price, who chairs the budget committee, talked about a republican plan for placing the Affordable Care replacing the Affordable Care act. We are proposing a patientcentered solution for patients and doctors and families to make decisions, not washington, d. C. The current path we are on has the majority of americans and unsettled if not outright , opposed to the path we are on. It is important for us to ask the question why. Why is that the majority of americans do not like the path we are on as it relates to health care . It is because it violates all the principles all of us hold dear when it comes to health care. We want a system that is accessible and affordable for everybody. We want a system of the highest quality, and a system that provides choices for the American People, for patients. The path we are are now violates those principles. What we put together is a patientcentered plan to respect those principles and allow everyone to have access to coverage, but access they want, not that the Government Forces them to buy. Dissolve the insurance challenges of affordability and preexisting. A few specific examples i would like to share with you. The individual small group market, those of you who recognize or in that arena, you appreciate it has been destroyed. We want to reconstitute the market and make it responsive to patients and allow them to purchase the kind of coverage they want, not that the Government Forces them to buy. Second, we waste hundreds of billions of dollars. Hundreds of billions of dollars, wasted, due to Lawsuit Abuse in this country. The practice of defensive medicine. Instead of putting a ban