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>> you probably need a fresh face. i'll stay on as majority leader. but the one thing i found in talking to everybody, if we're going to unite and be strong we need a new face to help do that. i don't want making voting for speaker a tough one. i don't want to go to the floor and win with 220 votes. i think the best thing for our party right now is that you have 247 votes on the floor. >> the question is with a debt vote looming and the house republican caucus in complete disarray who will replace mccarthy as boehner's successor? mccarthy himself told the national review i personal will i want...

A reporter for "the hill," he shouted "i am." not long after the shocking news broke today, mccarthy explained his decision to reporters. >> you probably need a fresh face. i'll stay on as majority leader. but the one thing i found in talking to everybody, if we're going to unite and be strong we need a new face to help do that. i don't want making voting for speaker a tough one. i don't want to go to the floor and win with 220 votes. i think the best thing for our party right now is that you have 247 votes on the floor. >> the question is with a debt vote looming and the house republican cauc...

Shut down the government, or default. that's not -- >> some of your colleagues do. they're on the record today saying they do. >> look, the speaker has demonstrated time and again, not to do that. but he said, let's correct the path we're on. we can do that with things in the president's budget. >> we have the fastest decline in the deficit that we've seen in basically the post-war period. >> and you can thank, by the way, a lot of that -- >> two-thirds is from revenue. congressman, two-thirds. >> by the way, some of it is, some of it isn't, and i voted for that. >> congressman tom cole and co...

Solution seeking to simply drive investment. forget who is in power. you cannot have job creation let alone 30 million jobs in industry and in the cradles like the one we're sitting in now if you don't have that culture of investment. how determining is the government's functionality to get what we need right now? >> it is huge. don't expect there to be functionality any time before the fall election. i mean, what's happening now, this debt vote, it's a huge charade where it was agreed to as part of the deal the last time they reached the crisis where the republicans would get a chance to form...

>> oh, i had many loves. >> and, of course, her charlie. >> i'm way too old for him now. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. anybody watching the debt vote in the house monday night had to have been extraordinarily moved by that remarkable emotional moment when congresswoman gabrielle giffords walked out on the floor to cast her first vote since an assassination attempt nearly killed her back in january. joining me now is a man who's had his own brush with death, abc news' bob woodruff. he's got a primetime "nightline" special on her and other near death experiences to...