another day, more footage of him being chased through the halls of congress by reporters. house republicans are planning to vote as soon as today to kick democratic congresswoman of minnesota off the foreign affairs committee over what they say are anti-semitic remarks in the past. speaker mccarthy has been working all week to flip republicans who were against ousting omar from the committee, and some of those defectors now appear to be falling in line. the latest includes congressman thomas massey of kentucky and ken buck of colorado. he said he would change huz vote to yes after the speaker appeared open to a proposed rule change that would make it harder in the future to kick lawmakers off committees. the washington post reports speaker mccarthy is now focusing on congressman matt gaetz of
them. in this case, what new republican majority is struggling to do is keep their own members in line. so far, we have three republicans who said they won t go along with the leadership on this. and they are ken buck of colorado and also nancy mace and victoria sparks. it looks like they can maybe only lose one more republican if that. otherwise, this effort to remove her could fail. dan yasha, let s talk about. this did you this powerful interview. you started your show yesterday with ben crumb, the attorney rep representing tyre nichols s family. he said it s finally time to see justice for george floyd act passed. dick durbin also called on congress to restart police negotiation reform negotiations. jim jordan said, i believe it was on fox, no law will change what happened. do you get the sense in washington that any sort of
there s four holdouts here. at some point kevin mccarthy will have to probably flip one of those four. here s the four. eli crane, a freshman-elect from arizona, matt rosendale from montana, we also have lauren boebert and matt gaetz. so those are the four. he has to flip at least one, maybe two of them. it s always going to determine and hinge on how many people cast ballots. at one point, you had the democrat from maryland that was out. so that lowered the number. there s two republicans that are out right now, westly hunt. he s out. his wife just had a baby. you have a medical condition with ken buck of colorado who left yesterday. he told me yesterday he would be back today. and there s a scenario where that number is always going to change. i ve talked about this being the math. i have talked about this being the algebra. this is also about this being the alkme. that number will always change you can see if wesley hunt and
0 heroic law enforcement officers. as congressman bennie thompson said, a man of honor himself eloquently said about these officers, he said you held the line that day and what was on the line was our democracy and history will remember your names. history will remember your names. they ll remember your courage, they ll remember your bravery. they ll remember your extraordinary commitments to your fellow americans. it s not hyperbole. it s a fact. it s a fact. folks, history will also remember your instincts to respond to do something as you did. as we all watched, all america watched it. watched it on television and saw it repeated and repeated. the past months we ve heard you testify to the nation about what happened that day. what you were thinking of at the time it was happening, what you re thinking now, the threats, the violence, the savageness of what happened. the trauma. all real. it s not exaggeration to say america owes you, owes you all. i really mean this. a debt a debt
m mccarthy? ken buck of colorado who had been sending public signals that maybe he was through voting for mccarthy, he did vote for mccarthy. look at this list. we will see what is to come from it. you mention that motion to adjourn last night that got them out last night. it was a win for mccarthy. if some kind of a deal with some of these renegade faction does emerge, there were still four republicans who voted against that motion to adjourn last night. that was andy biggs, lauren boebert, eli crane and matt gaetz. even if mccarthy strikes a deal, four is the maximum number of republicans he can afford voting for somebody else. there were four who wouldn t even vote to adjourn last night. you see, they make the top of the list. there are other names on this