again. when biden was running, he said he wanted to be a bridge to the future. it was his way at that moint, interpreted at least, of him saying i m on the older side. i want to get us through one tern as president and we ll see who the young talent is. looks like he might be changing his mind on that. he must be. his greatest spoil is donald trump. that s the only person that is an announcewant did it so far. president trump will tell you his record in the general election is 233 to 20. so he put himself out there. he was more engaged, more involved, more welcome than president joe biden was. we talked about it so many times on election night that you had joe biden and kamala harris unwelcome on the campaign trail. they sent joe biden across the street here not to the u.s. capitol, to the train administration. in 2024, what is different, the
0 john: doing the same thing and team 56 repeated over again, we could be here and march doing the same thing. we will see if there is anyway kevin mccarthy could convince the naysayers to come over to his side put i think there is two or three that will never switch. sandra: jim jordan made his best effort pitch the house for a moment ago. thank you for joining us, everyone in our coverage will continue. martha: thank you. continuing coverage here. i m martha maccallum live in our nation s capitol covering this drama that we did expect and now unfolding in a fascinating way on the house floor. the new republican majority there is in a historic battle as a handful try to block kevin mccarthy from the speaker s gavel which he has wanted a long time and worked very hard to get in the mid-terms. bret baier is standing by on set with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot fo