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Manu raju is at the capitol. we re hearing a lot of public pronouncements right now, red lines, et cetera. i wonder, are these serious? is it politicking? does this have the chance of stopping the bill, but also threatening the speakership? reporter: well, the moment those members who are upset don t have the votes to stop the bill but they re trying to do just that, and they re also warning that they may actually take a move when the speakership forces a vote to seek his ouster. this all comes ahead of the key vote this afternoon in the house rules committee, the first step in the legislative process, even as the members on the far right are trying to build up gop opposition. how much confidence do you have in the speaker right now? none. zero. what basis is there for confidence? you cannot forfeit the tool of republican unity. it was not necessary to do. reporter: is the speaker ....
Steam start to pick up some steam of support for the next pope that they might be in his favor, that kind of thing? well, rick, no doubt, rather than call it politicking, i would call it the human factor. the human factor. and as we watch those unbelievable images of such solemnity, we also are reminded that just over the last two weeks those same cardinals were in restaurants, in apartments having a drink, discussing amongst themselves real names of who do you think? what about this person? what about his record? googling other cardinals, finding out. i mean, that s the messy nature and a very fine nature, i think, of life on this earth. it s the human factor. and the fact that we can see this combination of a human factor and an aspiration for the spiritual i find to be personally very inspiring. i love the idea of cardinals googling other cardinals. [laughter] because in a lot of cases they do have to get to know one ....