unprecedented time. in your opening, you discussed what happened in 1855. the last time this happened was in 1923. and so we really have not seen many times in american history. and it is not a coincidence that there are times of division, times of extraordinary strife, disenfranchisement and inequality. and i think that these are things that the republican caucus is very much contending with. i also want to note that some of the requests made by these republican holdouts are also small d democratic nature in terms of the rules of the house. over a very long period of time, the concentration of power in the house of representatives has concentrated to an extraordinary amount in party leadership of both parties. and what we see from the house freedom caucus is their attempt, however guided, misguided, destructive, constructive whatever your perspective is,
our party is signaling an openness just yet i don t want to say. if he chooses to approach the democratic caucus then that would be a negotiation in and of itself for a potential coalition government but, again, this is very much an unprecedented time. in your opening you discussed what happened in 1855. the last time this happened was in 1923 and so we really have not seen many times in american history and it is not a coincidence they are times of division, times of extraordinary strife, disenfranchisement and inequality and i think these are things the caucus is contending with. i also want to note that some of the requests made by republican hold-outs are also small d democratic in nature in terms of the rules of the house.
to give. if blaming him for $32 trillion in debt. listen, yeah. to put it on his shoulders ones to the immediate left writing the bills than the ones in power i find it astounding. ainsley: ridiculous the 20 did change the minds of the 200. work with mccarthy. find out what they want they can work together. mccarthy has already agreed to the motion to vacate. if they don t like him they can remove him. nancy pelosi took that out, of course so they couldn t remove her. that s been tradition. if they don t like his job. the job that he is doing. put him in. if you don t like it later on do the motion to vacate. this is not unprecedented. everyone needs to hold their horses. this was one day, three different vote. we haven t seen this in 100 years. but it s not unprecedented. it s happened 19 times. the speaker needing more than one ballot in 1923 nine ballots. 1855, 1 # 3 ballots. steve: right. keep in mind, in the capitol building, they have a bunch of
and as i told you last night, until the speaker is elected, cheryl johnson is the boss of the house, as she demonstrated today. the house be in order. will the house be in order? and she got the house in order, more effectively than any republican could, until there is a speaker of the house, clerk, cheryl johnson, now has the power to quote, preserve order and decorum and decide all questions of order. that means anything not decided by a vote of the house will be decided by cheryl johnson until a speaker is elected. if this goes the way it did in 1855, cheryl johnson could be in charge of the house for two months or longer, because the
today by the speaker when there is no speaker. and no one was sworn in. at the house of representatives that is george santos first day at the house of representatives. just when you thought there were no more trump endorsed candidates left to lose an election today, another one did. that s three times. it is a once in a century event for the leading candidate for speaker of the house from the majority party to lose they vote for this big if. the last time it happened, as you ve heard by now, is exactly 100 years ago in 1923. and the one time it happened before that was in 1855. and in 1855 it s took a full two months for the house of representatives to elect a speaker. that is the record. two months to elect a speaker and as of now, we know it would take at least two days after the house unger and today at