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Than 15 hours to avoid a Government Shutdown that would disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of americans. Congressman Robert Garcia will join me live to discuss the latest. Flips, one of the 19 defendants of the Georgia Election interference case has pled guilty, it has agreed to testify against others. Melissa murray will explain why donald trump should be very afraid. Under fire, senator Robin Indices facing glowing calls from Top Democrats to resign admit bribery allegations. He is a democratic challenger. Congressman, andy, caring of new jersey, heres here to talk about taking on...

>> it depends. i don't have any objection to transparency and the rest. and -- >> you didn't allow it when you were speaker. >> i think it's supposed to be about following the procedure, the debate in the congress and if there is more opportunity for that, fine. but i don't think it should be used as a tool against members. i saw you talking to so and so on the floor and this or that. that shouldn't be the case. this was remarkable because when this pwas going on, there were members in the house and they said terrible things on the republican side but we couldn't challenge it because there wer...

>> it depends. i don't have any objection to transparency. >> you didn't allow it when you were speaker. >> but i think it's supposed to be about following the procedure. the debate in the congress. and if there's more opportunity for that, fine. but i don't think it should be used as a tool against members. i saw you talking to so and so on the floor and they said that. that shouldn't be the case. this was remarkable because when this was all going on you have to remember there were no rules in the house. anything went. and sometimes they said terrible things on the republican side but we cou...

California congressman cechg mc -- kevin mccarthy was elected speaker of the house in the 15th round of voting. >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought we'd get up here. maria: mccarthy took several blows on the way to obtaining the necessary votes to win but, ultimately, flipped several members in the 13th and 14th rounds even as at one point florida representative byron donalds emerged as an alternative to mccarthy, gaining 20 votes himself to potential speaker. congressman donalds flipped back to mccarthy after reaching a deal to verify his promises. they include a balanced budget...

The new congress begins next week. republicans will hold the majority in the house. just barely, by an inch. this year's mid-terms were not the red wave many thought it was going to be. what margin is mccarthy working with at this point? >> he is working with such a thin majority. republicans got 222 seats. among first-time speakers, i went back and looked, it is the smallest majority in 70 years. you have to go back to 1953 to find a smaller first-time potential speaker for majority. you can see some of the more recent first-time potential speakers in the chart that we have that essentially s...