think that kevin mccarthy is not about to become speaker of the house. jeffries? grainger? ali vitali are you with us? yep. kevin mccarthy getting what he needs would mean that matt gates got what he wanted. what was left for him? head of the armed services committee? it wasn t even like that to keep negotiating? we don t know that he got that, i guess we will see in the coming days. but you know what this means for kevin mccarthy? is that he probably got the votes, and he got what he wants. and now it might be a question of be careful what you wish for because he gave away so much, what these negotiation is, they took so much power away from the speaker, that it had been centralized by people like speaker pelosi, and others over the years, and taking it away from the speaker, and stripping it out and putting it back through the rank and file and specifically allowing the freedom caucus to permeate several key committees?
discussed. but because of the members voting present, he will not achieve 218 votes. which is a majority of the house. but under the rules, he will receive a majority of those who are naming a candidates, but obviously the storyline will be what did he promise matt gaetz? i mean he really had his moment here where he rolled kevin mccarthy. but we also saw 21 other members in the last week, roll kevin mccarthy. i also think one thing that is not been talked about. stephanie. and this is really important, there is a group of members we have not talked about. it s the 200 that stopped working with mccarthy all week. and you could view that through the lens of loyalty. of members that stuck with their leader. but if we are going to lay some criticism on mccarthy for getting rolled, i would suggest that all 200 of those members that stuck with him got rolled as well. because they allowed themselves to do so. we already know that the rules package now makes the freedom caucus chairman more p
entire time that they were speaker. ultimately, it was part of the reason why they could not persist, leaders of this conference. the conference has shifted even further to the right since then, premade in trump s image and empowered by that. but certainly, he will get the deal that kevin mccarthy and his deputies have made. and continuously look back at that, and wonder, if they haven t given certain things away, you know, at various points in the future, would it have looked different? i think that this is such a seminal moment in the mccarthy speakership legacy if and when we officially get there. let s bring david into this conversation, david, you have been with us, basically every single minute of these last 15 votes. what is your take at this hour? here we are, january 7th. yeah, obviously a lot of things have been said, mccarthy is pulling this out. i would say, intriguingly, he s gonna pull this out. with the minority of the house, that actually hasn t been
35 congresspeople sworn in. c-span cameras on george santos. we can confirm george santos was actually sworn in as a member of congress, something that he put out in a press release on monday, which was not true. it s done. it s definitely you and i met each other in the halls a few hours ago when we re not sure if it was gonna happen tonight. now is he s doing he s not doing the rose package tonight so you might have to adjourn. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. it s my humble honor to be the first to address you from the floor of the people s house as mister speaker.