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Made in order to gain this speakership, and the cozy relationship that he has with -- >> we saw this in january, tucker carlson actually said to mccarthy on air, if you want to be the speaker, this is how you are going to do it. then he said that he wanted him to start a church committee, which mccarthy happily did. he called it the committee to weaponize -- government weaponization, whatever it was called. he made jim jordan the head, i think that tucker had wanted thomas massie. but yes, tucker is running this party. he is literally on his show giving orders to the speaker of the house, and ...

Allowed gaetz to vote present, which mccarthy would have won on the 14th vote. >> she would have voted for mccarthy. >> voted for gaetz. then gaetz can vote present. what happened is she voted present, and gaetz voted present. he didn't get it. he got on the number but he didn't get there. there was come confusion about what was happening, and that's when everybody panicked and flipped out. >> all right. another iconic moment, i will say, this photo, marjorie taylor greene holding up the cell phone with the initials dt on it. that hand that you see there is congressman matt rosendale who didn'...

>> i don't think our viewers know i had the 14th ballot down as the most likely for which mccarthy would become speaker. >> each of these six members had the possibility of making this happen, and they didn't. i'd like to add one other person to that, and that's kevin mccarthy himself. because we're here today in great part because of his trying to appease this group for a long, long time. it wasn't just the trip down to mar-a-lago to try to get trump's support. he has been playing what i would say is a dangerous game with this group. >> let's also just, i think, call this what it is, which is...

Rules package being in place. it's the rules for how congress runs. beyond that, it's anybody's guess. republicans have set their focus on launching frivolous investigations into things like covid's origin, the so-called woke ideology. mccarthy actually said that last night. many of which mccarthy highlighted during his first speech as speaker. but if last week is any indication of what, or if this last week is any indication of what the 118th congress is going to be like, there's going to be a lot more dysfunction ahead. joining me now, eugene scott, national political reporter for the washin...

0 >> now they're going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let's listen in. >> gaetz. >> present. >> present. >> he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed -- present votes don't hurt. it's at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let's listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. >> mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries...