deals with that caucus after the small but effective group of republicans showed impact. yanked away mid tirade against congressman gaetz. now, that process was used to take new powers away from leadership and em power mccarthy foes. in a new piece reporting that whatever everyone think of gaetz his critics across the spectrum acknowledge he must be dealt with after the speaker clash, and mccarthy allies don t like it, saying it s not the outcome they preferred but gaetz s stature has been elevated. true on house rules and visibility as well. mccarthy setbacks in this early period, they often played as gaetz s gains. there are a handful of far right holdouts and they warn they will not support him. the more conservative freedom caucus members pledged not to vote for kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy celebrating a victory that almost didn t happen. this looks like a bit of a heated conversation. this is incredible. this is an incredible moment. mccarthy is directly enga
there is a secret written agreement somewhere. he said he doesn t have it anymore and others may have it and he s not opposed to releasing it. your thought on that exchange? well, we have to ask ourselves, why do you keep it secret? you keep it secret because gaetz wants to hide, mccarthy wants to hide what they actually believe and want to propose in this congress. what they actually want to propose is that rich people should pay less, working class people and middle class people should pay more. that s actually what they propose, what they believe. what they believe is vladimir putin should be given the ukraine, more or less, or we should withdraw our support for zelenskyy, because putin, like gaetz, is a supporter of donald trump. do you take it on the level that he had and lost or no longer obtains the secret deal? i personally do not believe that.
deals with that caucus after the small but effective group of republicans showed impact. yanked away mid tirade against congressman gaetz. now, that process was used to take new powers away from leadership and em power mccarthy foes. in a new piece reporting that whatever everyone think of gaetz his critics across the spectrum acknowledge he must be dealt with after the speaker clash, and mccarthy allies don t like it, saying it s not the outcome they preferred but gaetz s stature has been elevated. true on house rules and visibility as well. mccarthy setbacks in this early period, they often played as
others up on the screen. thus far, do you feel that mccarthy is following all of this? do you expect there toob owe no confidence vote or that s probably off the table now? i don t expect it, though of course it is good for the health of the institution for any speaker to know that one member would call for a vote on their reign in power. i m particularly pleased that kevin mccarthy has been meeting his commitments on policy, procedure, and personnel. we ve got a number of great conservatives on the rules committee, appropriations committee that wouldn t have had that opportunity but for this temporary clash at the beginning of the year. i think we re a stronger team going forward, and i think we ve given kevin mccarthy every reason to be the very best version of himself. interesting. i think viewers and listeners will notice you sound a little different now than during the clash, although everyone s allowed to evolve within the caucus. well, kevin evolved. kevin did evolve.
15th ballot was an ironclad commitment that tony gonzalez would be alone in opposing the rules package and we would ice in and put into cement changes to the house of representatives that we think will make it a better house for every republican, every democrat, and every american. just to be clear, when mchenry and others say that, your response, is what, they re misinformed or lie about you? just look at twitter. tony gonzalez said he wasn t going to vote for the rules so i required the assurances. if you ask patrick henry what was being discussed, it shows i was pointing to where mccarthy sat say, mccarthy, tough let me know he s alone here, and there aren t 10, 15 republicans that are going scuttle this deal. mccarthy gave me that assurance, and now i think we re a strong team looking forward to the work ahead. we ll show the footage. make sure we understand we re talk about the same thing. it was that floor footage we saw. you guys talking there.