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To be speaker above all else. so, if i know that is your goal, i will punch you all day long. [laughter] and that's what matt gaetz did for five days and 15 rounds. he punked him in every round, particularly on the 14th when he went on fox and said oh, speaker elect mccarthy? we are all good, i don't know if i could ask for anything else, and then voted present. to throw that into a 15th ballot. so that told me, and hopefully everybody else, to charlie's point, buckle up for the next two years. >> michael steele, charlie sykes, thank you both very much for coming back to the sunday show. see y...

To be able to do that. >> do you think there are any other concessions from what you understand that kevin mccarthy could give these holdouts that would bring anybody over, even any one individual? because everything -- when you talk about it, it seems like he has already capitulated. he already put everything on the table he could put on there. is there anything else you're aware he could do? >> you have been that right. there has been a very good faith negotiation from speaker-elect mccarthy. there is some goalposts that have been moved in last few day, and we're very frustrated at that. thi...

Your colleague david valadao from california told me if it took a thousand votes, he would still support mccarthy. do you say the same thing? because there are some on the other side saying six months we'll fight this out. are you willing to say this could go on indefinitely? >> that's the majority of the conference right now is we're sticking with mccarthy. i think it was best put today >> i apologize. i saw excellent coverage of that. one person said it. we in the last two elections, house republicans have won significant seats in 2020. we took the majority in 2022. and leader mccarthy has b...

Morning. what you'll see transpire today, sheryl johnson, the clerk of the house, she's going to gavel out the 117th congress, gavel in the 118th. and since there is no rules passed yet, she has the authority to only do two things, call a quorum vote, we all show up and vote present on the floor and then second call the speaker vote. she only has the authority to call the speaker vote if nobody gets ss ss to 218, call it a se time, a third time, until someone makes a privileged motion to adjourn, which requires 218 votes. a lot of it is uncertain as to how it is going to play out today. it is ...

40 democrats were absent, that would lower the threshold. >> i see. >> enough to elect mccarthy. >> votes -- >> he would lose his votes, too. >> when you're not minority, you got to take as many wins as you can when you can get them. as much as we can i think accurately predict there would be plenty of embarrassing moments when it comes to passing legislation moving forward with this majority, this slim majority, it's not guaranteed. here is a failure unlike anything we've seen since 1923. they should be seizing on this moment for purposes of taking back the majority in 2024. >> by the way, i ...