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Our recruiting is better than ever before. the number of conservatives running across and conservative women and others. and you remember in the last election while everybody said, predicted we'd lose 15 seats, we beat 15 democrats. and every democrat lost to a woman, a minority or a veteran. we need people to join with us to be able to fire nancy pelosi. just go to firepelosi.com and help us win the majority but help us turn this country around. it's not going to be given -- maria: so, congressman -- whether. >> -- it has to be earned. maria: so you think you can turn how many seats? there's ...

Her three kids and spoiler alert, she's not very happy about it. >> ashley: i can imagine. the house minority leader kevin mccarthy is anticipating a wave of democratic congressional retirements head of the 2022 here is republicans look to retake the house. >> in 2010 when we won the majority, 17 democrats retired. already 25. i expect that number to be up over 30 democrats retirements because they see what the future holds and they see the numbers. we want to earn enough we have a governing majority, that means the realm of 20 or higher. we are fortunate enough to win 35 republican seats. tha...

Party? >> no, i don't think he did expect it. i also don't think he expected people to resist vaccines the way they have resisted vaccines. this is someone who was in the senate for 36 years, and was vice president for eight, but this is a very different place. and i think he had to learn that. he prefers the kind of quiet, back door diplomacy, okay, i'm going to have joe manchin at the white house, i'm going to have kyrsten sinema at the white house. we'll jaw on this thing and maybe we can get it to work out. it doesn't work that way. i think he learned that the hard way, and as a result, he...

>> todd: welcome back, house minority leader kevin mccarthy says he's anticipating congressional retirements ahead of the midterm as republicans look to retake the house. >> in 2010, when we won the majority, 17 democrats retired. already 25. i expect that number to be up to over 30 democrat retirements because they see what the future holds and see the numbers. we want to earn enough to have a governing majority, in the relatem of 20 or higher, we are fortunate enough to win 25 republican seat, that would be largest republican majority in more than 100 years. >> todd: mccarthy adding once rep...

Republicans as well as democrats. it's often forgotten that medicare and the voting rights act passed because of republican votes as much as democratic votes. 112 republicans in the house voted for the voting rights act. 60 republicans in the house voted for medicare. so the challenge for lbj was he had southern democrats who were not going to support him certainly on civil rights, but he could pull over republicans to make a governing majority. president biden, when he's differed with the progressive caucus, which has about 95 votes in speaker pelosi's caucus, he doesn't have the luxury of ge...