whether it s trying to remove a duly elected congress woman from iowa, as they did, you t itow, telling us that republicans are going to get rid of social security when it s their policies that are threatening social security. and you re right, leaderships now is going to force the realbs hakeem jeffries to stand up because he s been hiding behinde anti trump rhetoric. alllike all the other democrats and trying to play both sides of the fence. progressiv on one hand , hakeem jeffries is part of this progressive nnedcaucus. h but on the other hand , he teamed up with congressman gottheimeron on this on a pacd called team blue . t and the purpose of the pac wasre to fight off wild progressiveero democrats from attacking conservativef it democrats. and he said things like he s never going to bend a need for liberal socialists.om and he s made almentl kinds ofs. comments. soso huh c hakeem jeffries has e a problem because on one hand ,
illegitimate and floated the idea that trump wands a fake president . joining us now with reaction, former white house chief of staff reince priebus, along with former senator scott brown . gentlemen, thank you so mucht w for joining us tonight. right now, i want to start with you, because there s obviously changes like nancy pelosi s been in charge of the democrats in the house for nearly 20 years. 0 year hakim is jefferys. i some bnew him. i served with him. i did some bills with him.a tell but i got to tell you, he s and nancy pelosi, they ve he they ve got some differences, mt too. it s nothana as if he s morenc,h moderate than nancaty pelosi, that s for sure. well, you know, these as youo thow, jason , the democrats number one on your election denialism point, they ve don joe a great job of trying to accusee republicans of all the things that they re totally guilty of,e whether it be sayingr it that t was not legitimate in 2016, whether it s stacey abrams o, a
and specials, including yellowstone one fifty with kevin costner and christmas at the greenbrier sign up to stream fox nation for just one fifty a month fortd a full year. nowrse that tus it for us . and of course, tune in every night, 8:00 p.m.. so that s a swornd enemy of lying composter. smugness and groupthink have a the best night with the ones you love. we ll see in a minute. welcome this special edition of hannity . i m jason chaffetz, in for sea tonwher . and today wee pr begin at the we house where president biden is recoverinrom g from a long tp abroad. joe sa fixtmissing from joe world tour, his son hunter, once a fixture on his father s official visits. the biden family s bag manrepublic is now layinang low.and republicans are poised to take control of the house and the administration is in panic mode
thvin mccarthy is 30 votes shy of the speakership right now. that number will shrink. some republicans oppose recarthy as a protest, but there are a few republicans he may never get , like freedomkev caucus favorite andy biggs. i m sure kevin s going. to get the 218. that s where he and i disagree. and there are reasons thatadersp the american public say we need a change in leadership . activ it s because we ve watched whats has happened when we don ty to actively fight and use everyadma peoplee have to slow down the biden administration. expect that s what people want. and that s what new leadership would be expected to do. mccarthy withdrew fromfore the speaker s race in 2015 the before there was a fight. it s possible the gop may have delayed that brawl for seven years. mccarthy needs an outrighto be majority of the house to become speaker. when the house struggled to elect a speaker in 1849 and 1856, it eventually adopted a resolution to tap a speaker with a simple majority.
the housd for e voted for two ms straight before settling on a speaker in 1850. e for the democrats, hakeem jeffries is the only candidateer for minority leader. republicans are tryingo de to define jeffery s. he s even further to the leftpr of nancy pelosi. asd that s the problemwi with te democrat party. but some liberals blastset. jeffery s as too close to wall street. he s also had differencese with the squad house speaker nancy pelosi formally bless jefferys as her successor. andf pelosi is staying on boardee asa rank and file member. one democrat expressed concern that if she s not careful, ressa some could perceive pelosi as a congressional helicopter. parent. jason .t runner t chad, thank you. the front runner to be the nexts house democratic minority leader is hakeem jeffries. as chad said, he s also i a frequent election denier and conspiracy theorist. in fact, he called the twentyhe sixteen election results