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Could actually jeopardize his chances. he faces a speaker election challenge from arizona republican representative andy biggs and matt gaetz, ralph norman, matt rosendale. they have all publicly expressed plans to vote against, as you mentioned. why are they so hell-bent to mccarthy from taking the speaker role? >> i don't know. may be personal animosity. i do know there are some policy issues. but again, you will not do find that person in the conference that 218 people can unite behind. only andy biggs ran against mccarthy and the conference race and lost 188-1:30 one. jim jordan would be g...

Proposal by mccarthy, which basically would allow a change of rule to allow any house member to force a vote to remove the speaker at any time. this is a demand for influential g.o.p. opponents because under the current rules the only membership and only members of house leadership able to do so. these are rules implemented under nancy pelosi, who's been in office forever. how will mccarthy's proposal, do you think, help his chances? >> his concession yesterday was to allow five members to move to vacate the chair, which would allow five members -- currently there is five saying they will not ...

Talking about 104th congress, i appreciate you mentioning the podcast and one of the voices in the podcast. obviously somebody elected that year in one of the most famous things that resulted from it immediately that 1994 revolution, of course, was the political trauma of late 1995. the government shutdown, which at the time was not unprecedented but it was, in many ways treatment of it, a new step in our politics, and i think what we're trying to explore with this podcast that i think is relevant to right now here we are in 2022 for the fifth time now since 1994, you're going to have a change...

The speakers -- speaker of the house. what is going on in terms of leadership? will mccarthy get the gavel? >> members have a lot of questions. number one, obviously, the expectations were not delivered. number two, how are we actually going to govern what's appearing to be a small majority? i was listening to your previous segment with stephen muller. we have to -- miller. we have to lay out a demonstrated plan, serious policies that voters actually believe in, and we can't equivocate from that even in what's looking to be continued divided government, gridlocked government. republican member...

The speakers -- speaker of the house. what is going on in terms of leadership? will mccarthy get the gavel? >> members have a lot of questions. number one, obviously, the expectations were not delivered. number two, how are we actually going to govern what's appearing to be a small majority? i was listening to your previous segment with stephen muller. we have to -- miller. we have to lay out a demonstrated plan, serious policies that voters actually believe in, and we can't equivocate from that even in what's looking to be continued divided government, gridlocked government. republican member...