you mentioned mitch mcconnell. separate startling development that happened to him that involved him today. he froze at a news conference. can you explain what happened? reporter: yeah, more questions about the 81-year-old mitch mcconnell s health. this after he suffered a fall earlier this year. he fell in a washington hotel and hit his head and had a concussion, broke some ribs and there have been other questions about that sense his return after going to the hospital and having to endure treatment for several weeks and the aftermath of that. well if addressing reporters today, he started to deliver his opening statement, about the floor schedule, what was happening on the floor of the united states senate, then he froze. we re on a path to finishing the nda this week. it has been good bipartisan cooperation. and a string of
hardliners. before i bring howard dean in, this is the other part. i asked him about the transparency, releasing the deal, which he explained the thing he s proud of, the deal, he doesn t have a copy. why not have you and your colleagues who negotiated it just released what was agreed to at the time in writing? i have no objection to that. i don t know that i still have a copy, because we were able to resolve an at love these things with committee appointments, with the floor schedule on the votes and with the passage of the rules package. the thing you say you re proud of and you won you just didn t keep a copy of? i know it, ari. i m here telling it to you. we heard from mr. gaetz. we gave him time for his perspective, become and forth. now we hear from someone from a different perspective. howard dean ran the party. welcome back. thanks for having me. i try to start by taking things on the level and dealing with
steve outlines the floor schedule of the first two weeks of the congress. there focus on the people in th first schedule fills up the 118 th congress of the reflective up those concerns reflecting the irs for agents agent said crime crisis that th threat from china and securing protections for life and those that stand for it let s bring i our panel. syndicated radio host he was hewitt. and the congressional reporter for politico. that got a bold agenda and they campaigned on it in this contract with the american people. first they have to get a leader. that is up the first on tuesday whether kevin mccarthy has the votes are not paid. out of out of the getty thin is change last week. knucklehead caucuses have got five members on none of them have moved and none of the scalise agenda and the majority
of questions. however, the house is paralyzed until it picks a speaker. the house can t swear in members. can t pass bills, can t launch investigations. all promised by kevin mccarthy. we got important investigative work, so we hope he gets the votes and he will be elected speaker on the first ballot. that s what we re looking for. the house just told g.o.p. investigators it must resubmit requests on information on a host of probes once republicans take control. that, coupled with murkiness about who may be speaker, could delay g.o.p. investigations until february or later. arizona s andy biggs vows to challenge mccarthy for speaker. biggs says he would never vote for mccarthy. he has got a body of work. you go back to 17 and 18 the floor leader mccarthy cut deal with democrats. woo a group of five g.o.p. opponents to for weeks. promised more control of the floor schedule. time to read bills. but mccarthy won t budge on a demand to allow them to vote him