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That's absolutely nonworkable, nongovernable, non-starter. >> the best thing kevin mccarthy has going for him is no one its wants the job. the job is hard for a reason, and they do not -- the person who can put together that caucus, that list is still very small. so even though he is a wounded speaker, a potential speaker going in who is going to have to make up a various tight amount of votes to get that job, what he can say is there is very few people who can get those numbers, even if they're -- >> you know who was one person today? of course speaker pelosi, who as she has spoken -- you wer...

Things that could be promised. maybe they say, you know, we're not going to impeach mayorkas. maybe they say we won't do biden investigations. some people throwing out names like liz cheney and fred upton as potential speaker of the houses as unity candidates. i would remind everybody at home, you don't have to be a sitting member of the house of representatives to be the speaker. >> the interesting part in any state legislator, this has happened before. there's been tight majorities. when the majority party doesn't come together as one, there's no telling what can happen. in those situations,...

You think is going to happen here, do you think he's going to come up with the votes if. >> it's interesting because here's the state of the negotiation as best we can tell, andy biggs who ran for the speakership and got 31 votes against kevin mccarthy says he's hard no matter what. matt gaetz says the same thing. hard no votes for kevin mccarthy no matter what, there would need to be another candidate to come in, my guess however there's going to be this negotiation that goes on, a potential speaker has a lot of goodies to give away as far as seniority on different committees, standing on var...

I mean, jake, kevin mccarthy has said that he is willing to detonate the american economy, default on our nation's debt in order to try to strip away social security and medicare tens of millions of americans. it's incredibly reckless. it's at the top of his agenda. >> it sound like you want pelosi to work to raise the debt limit now so mccarthy can't do that, though, right? >> we're going to have a conversation as democrats about the best approach, and we have to find common ground with not just 50 democrats in the senate but an additional ten republicans in order to make some kind of change ...

Majority, far narrower than what kevin mccarthy wanted. his team hoped going into election day they could get 20 or more seats that would give them some flexibility, some room to lose some vote, not just on legislating but also getting the votes in the full house in order to become speaker. remember, next week is the beginning of the possess. republicans will go behind closed doors and will nominate their choice to become speaker. he only needs a majority of support within his conference to do that. the big vote comes in january. that's when 218 votes will be needed in the full house for him t...