the speaker shares procedural power with the democrats it is true that when republicans are not united, when we don t have our, when we don t have people backing in the speaker s play, then you do give a certain amount of power over to the minority. it s amazing to me. i mean, i tried to be a pretty good teammates. when you ve got a quarterback in the huddle with the 11th football players as gang, it s gonna be a running play. now it may be that somebody on the offensive line disagrees with that play call, but if you want to be successful as a team, you run the dam play. not all 11 players get to call their own play and now you can try it that way, but you re going to fail. and so that s the situation we re in right now. i wish people understood that we could get more conservative policy wins, which i desire if republicans stuck together i want to play something that you told my colleague, john berman, just days after the republicans, eight republicans ousted kevin mccarthy back in