members of freedom caucus. in fact, 60% of the freedom caucus supported kevin from the get go. i think a lot of the frustration stemmed from a certain group of people that were raising campaign cash off of this, basically cashing in on chaos on the house floor. neil: are you saying that all 20 the of that group were in that camp, that they were cashing in? oh, certainly. certainly. that s public knowledge. and of those neil: you ve got to work with those 20 now. 14 of them went your way and went for ken mccarthy. kevin mccarthy. heir going to hear this, congresswoman, and they re going to say, what did she say? unit say anything that wasn t true, and again, i ve never name-called or done any of that. that s not helpful. we need cooler, calmer heads to prevail. but we need to be here for the pure i of purpose, and that s serving the american people. and when you re raising campaign cash off of this in the middle of these negotiations, that doesn t strike people as good faith. ne
good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is am: wake up call. i m carol costello live in new york. let s get started with that big storm crashing through the atlantic ocean right now. irene is getting ever more powerful and may be heading toward the united states. people in south carolina already getting ready for irene. the hurricane is near the dominican republic right now. take a look at the storm from the international space station. irene is now a category 2 hurricane, but jacqui jeras says it could become an enormous category 4 later this week as it gets closer to the southeastern united states. it s already left about half of puerto rico without power. cnn will take a closer look at the storm s path in a few minutes. how is the battle for tripoli going anyway this morning? that depends on whom you ask. rebel leaders say they have control over most of the city. there s still some fierce fighting in some neighborhoods. moammar gadhafi s son saif, the o