meeting he had with some worry members of a critical caucus within the republican caucus. there was a moment today at the capitol where members of the freedom caucus of the hard line conservative group confronted the house speaker, at the capitol and said they are deeply disappointed of some of the d m developments of the republican agenda. they questioned some of the leader leader ship decisions. it is not a coup attempt at the moment. it is forpt know that timportane freedom of caucus is speaking with paul ryan. i think you have to remember, brian, quickly, this senator high camp moment in north dakota. it was enforcement see how it pushed back leader mcconnell
caucus, this hard line conservative group. the house freedom caucus has a lot of rules such as they need 80% of their nebs members on boo issue an endorsement. they have more than 70%. that s a big hurdle. he put the ball in their court, said i ll run for speaker if you re on board. if you re not, then this one is on you. so he got that endorsement. right now it looks much, much more likely that paul ryan will be the next speaker of the house than it did last night. he has two other groups in the house republican caucus that he needs to get on board. those have always been much more likely than the house freedom caucus. there s a moderate grupp and conservative but not fight as hard line group. they ve been ideologically aligned with paul ryan. they ve always seen hill as a thought leader. so he s almost certain to get their support. it turns out the easy job will be winning the speaker seat, the hard job might be actually holing it and wielding