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the contentious weeklong battle for speaker. kevin mccarthy's rocky road to the gavel including sessions made to the far-right's holdouts is raising fresh questions about how a republican-led house will govern. earlier today, house republicans getting their take. >> sometimes democracy is messy, but i would argue that's exactly how the founders intended it. they wanted real debate, real input from all people, and then you get a decision. >> it is positive, not negative. it is not weakening kevin mccarthy it is providing the speaker with the tools he needs for republicans to go to the...

Order secures bigger ship votes from the furthest right members of his caucus. let's go to nbc congressional correspondent julie, who is joining me. >> julie, it sounds like sailing may not be a smooth as he expect. >> definitely, not alex, as we go ahead to this rules vote tomorrow night which is essentially what congress needs to govern. they have a speaker now, now they need those rules, and we've heard from moderates just this morning that talking about how they plan to vote for this. and before we talk about that, i want to tick through some of what they are planning on to implement on th...

Officials, with migrants, with lawmakers as well. and how much does improving the situation at the border rely now on a bipartisan solution by congress. would it not benefit, sir, both sides to pass legislation to overhaul the immigration system? >> absolutely. and there are solutions at hand, but congress has consistently resisted that, especially frankly, on the republican side. immigration reform is like a third rail for them. and as a result, we have had dysfunction and have not been able to come together on a bipartisan basis to fix the broken immigration system. and, so it is the challen...

Playoffs, one of their star players, daryl strawberry, was diagnosed with colon cancer. and he had this major surgery, and the yankees used that as part of their motivation towards winning the world series. i see this is a very similar situation in the sense that the buffalo bills are a very powerful team, an excellent team, and they are using this as part of their inspiration to really go even further than they would've before, and then that is a good thing for turning that negative into a positive. >> let me ask you about your most recent article, terrence, in which you criticize nfl commiss...