where the suspect is being held. good afternoon. if. reporter: good afternoon. that s right, mike, he is being held right here behind me at the monroe county correctional facility, and there s a lot of legal maneuvering going on this weekend about those extradition plans now that he has a public defender who has said that he plans to go back to idaho. he is going to waive his extradition hearing and he wants to go back to fight those charges. as we take a look at that mug shot that we have here from this jail, the attorney says kohberger is waiving that extradition hearing so he can quickly be brought to idaho, adding he s eager to be exonerated. we are also learning more about what led to the sudden stop of the cleanup at the crime scene in moscow, idaho, last week, the day kohberger was arrested here in pennsylvania. something that was briefly discussed on friday by idaho investigators. the house cleanup has been halted, and that came by a legal request from the court.
he s got a body of work. you go back to 17 and 18, rook at why we had democrats voting for the republican budgets, because the republicans didn t want hose budgets, but the floor leader, mr. mccarthy, cut hose deals with the democrats. mike: garrett, is this new republican majority in the house at risk of stumbling out of the gate with a fight over their next leader? i think it s clear, and congressman issa s right, leader mccarthy has very strong support within the conference. he is the republican nominee based on the conference vote. if you look at, too, his vote coming out of conference is right on par with speaker paul ryan and nancy pelosi who both became speaker. he shattered fundraising records across the country. look, the majority is a little more slim than a lot of people thought it would be, but the reality is here that republicans are going to unify around kevin mccarthy. there will cannot be chaos on the house floor, we ve got to get right to work for the