but also worried about the coming days. gillian. gillian: jeff, it looks like the smoke is encroaching ever closer to you. stay safe out there. thanks for that report. >> what is your level of confidence that you'll be the speaker of the house. >> total. >> 100%? >> 100%. i feel confident where i am and encouraged and overwhelming support of my caucus that goes to the floor. >> nancy pelosi is confident, but are the rest of democrats all that confident or happy if she becomes speaker? >> and joining us now is jeff ehrlich and a radio talk show host. robert, we come to know how much you can't wait for the return of nancy pelosi for return as speaker? >> one thing we saw, midterm elections and we saw cortez, beto o'rourke, we saw gillum. young, energetic people who are