the man who negotiated the deal to deliver mccarthy key votes, republican congressman chip roy of texas joins me for his first post-vote interview. a lawmaker critical of the rebels, republican congressman dan crenshaw is ahead. and standing together. as republicans floundered, democrats were unified. house democrats stand together with you. how are they preparing to are the next two years? the new house minority whip, congresswoman katherine clark joins me exclusively ahead. president biden is set to visit the southern border as he expands a trump-era rule he had promised to overturn. it s important to step back and see the bigger picture here. will a divided congress address the immigration crisis. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is reeling from a wild week this morning after historic struggle, kevin mccarthy is house speaker. he won ugly, but he won. it took 15 ballots, a divisive speaker struggle not seen since before the ci
roy of texas, who was a key negotiator of getting kevin mccarthy elected as house speaker. let s make a deal. 15th time is the charm. the honorable kevin mccarthy is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [ cheers and applause ] but after a bruising fight, can kevin mccarthy govern? the man who negotiated the deal to deliver mccarthy key votes, republican congressman chip roy of texas joins me for his first post-vote interview. a lawmaker critical of the rebels, republican congressman dan crenshaw is ahead. and standing together. as republicans floundered, democrats were unified. house democrats stand together with you. how are they prepares for the next two years? the new house minority whip, congresswoman katherine clark joins me exclusively ahead. guy plus, going south. president biden is set to visit the southern border as he expands a controversial trump-era rule that he had promised to overturn. it s important to step back and see the bigg
the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. i suspect that when they come back after dinner that mccarthy is going to end up withdrawing. oh, i think his goose is very much cooked. i don t think we re going to see a speaker kevin mccarthy. howard: only in the final late night drama did journalists say, hey, shocker, mccarthy, who we all branded the biggest loser, might actually win this thing. of i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my exclusive int
the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. i suspect that when they come back after dinner that mccarthy is going to end up withdrawing. oh, i think his goose is very much cooked. i don t think we re going to see a speaker kevin mccarthy. howard: only in the final late night drama did journalists say, hey, shocker, mccarthy, who we all branded the biggest loser, might actually win this thing. of i m howard kurtz, and this is
deal set until they voted on friday morning. on thursday we all thought the negotiations had ended and we had three more votes where mccarthy lost. he says no, that s not right, we didn t have this deal until friday morning. i believe him when he says he was trying to make that deal throughout the week, but he s one of the few. there was no reason for us to keep voting, keep voting, keep allowing these speeches that just degraded and diminished and insulted kevin mccarthy. we didn t have to keep doing that. we could have adjourned for the whole week and kept negotiating. so that s where the heartburn is. that s what i want people to know. this deal was easy. that wasn t the hard part. there s not as much disagreement as everyone thinks on how that rules package went by and what some of the new changes needed to be. the only thing i ll disagree with this group on is it could have been done earlier. that s what justifies the animosity that occurred all week. it seemed very, very pointl