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Freedom caucus. congressman schweigert, did you come to washington to govern or tear the house down? >> actually i came to inform it. for many of us in the freedom caucus and throughout the membership, it's about being able to legislate. and the way the rules and the power is set up right now in the house, we're not allowed to do that. >> i ask that question because the lead editorial in the "washington post" puts your group in the latter category. do you think the freedom caucus is being maligned with words like association? what is it you want people to know about the freedom caucus. >> mike...

If he aligns himself too much with the freedom caucus, paul ryan will be stuck. >> charlie, i want to say this. if it takes cutting a deal with nancy pelosi and the democrats to resolve this, charlie dent, would you do that? >> to resolve what? >> to resolve the speakership position if nobody can get to a number of votes with republicans alone. >> if there are not 218 republican votes on the house floor for a republican speaker, then the democrats, of course, will have some say in who will be the next speaker of the house. they will throw their votes to some candidate they prefer. so by having...

Like that until all the facts are in? >> but that's the point. if you actually watched it and listened, which might be a novel concept, you could actually say -- let me finish. look, i know you have the editor there. let me finish. we're hearing the stories and we've been hearing these for two years. i actually push back on my tea party groups a year and a half ago saying, oh, no, none of this could be going on. the administration and the irs would never be singling you out. now i have the humiliation of saying, you were right, you were singled out. so in this sort of case, enjoy the cascade, ...

Narrative for republicans and memorial day weekend. everybody is going to be talking about politics. it speaks to this republican sentiment of government overreach. if they're able to tie all three of these scandals together and talk about government overreach into this narrative, i think it could potentially be bad news for the democrats for quite some time as more of these hearings and investigations continue. >> benny johnson buzzfeed, kevin serilo of politico. thanks, you guys. >> thank you. we talked about the controversy the irs scandal is having on obama. >> nobody questions his legal...

So there is a real benefit for these lower key, lower scale projects. the investor protections that are necessary to a facebook operation or some of the other things, we strengthened it -- actually, i should say the senate strengthened it. in my view, i say we have to be vigilant to see if this works. but one size does not fit all, and i think congressman schwiger and i want to give an opportunity to these projects but can't bear the burden of an sec oversight. >> again, you both would have my wholehearted support. i believe a networked crowd source capital market would be an avid improvement ...