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Leader. one thing working in his favor is there does not appear to be a consensus choice yet for who might take him on. he can't be denied the speakership if there's not someone else to elect as the speaker. and he's stayed close with the people who could be his biggest rivals in that space. first and foremost, jim jordan, who is in line for an important leadership position in the new majority. >> i found this interesting when kevin mccarthy asked if he was going to support former president donald trump. i want to see what you make of his response. >> are you prepared to endorse president trum...

I will give you good example. you notice the flap of tulsi gabbard lately were hillary clinton makes this wild accusation that she is a russian agent or russian accent and that she is referring for a third-party run, that's a way to punish sanders to hurt her. it sanders comes out and defends her, warren keeps her mouth shut. she says nothing good i think they have a nonaggression pact and that once you are in with te clintons, once you are compromising yourself to that extent, it is very hard to stick to principle. i'm worried that if she gets the nomination, and right now she looks like the ...

Democratic party -- that's what it appears. i will give you good example. you notice the flap with tulsi gabbard lately were hillary clinton makes this wild accusation that she is a russian agent or a russian asset and that she is preparing for a third-party run, that's a way to punish sanders to hurt her. sanders comes out and defends her, warren keeps her mouth shut. she says nothing, i think they have a nonaggression pact and that once you are in with the clintons, once you are compromising yourself to that extent, it is very hard to stick to principle. i'm worried that if she gets the nomi...

Then he moved up and ran to be a state senator. again he won and was re-elected and re-elected and re-elected again. he served a whole bunch of terms in the senate. he moved up again and won for state pressure -- treasurer. and then he moved up again and won the race for secretary of state. this guy was totally unbeatable. by the time he was running for re-election as secretary of state, he did something that no other statewide elected official had ever done before in the history of that state. he won all 102 counties in the state of illinois in that race. nobody had ever done that before in a...

History of that state. he won all 102 counties in the state of illinois in that race. nobody had ever done that before in any statewide race. but he was al the pal. who could be against him? he was the consensus choice. no matter what he was running for, for decades from these little municipal posts all the way up through everything in state government, he was totally absolutely unbeatable. and in a sort of methodical way, as he was working his way up to higher and higher office, it ultimately became sort of inevitable that he would end up being a u.s. senator from illinois. in the united stat...