Jonathan hunt standing by in malibu. First to kevin corke, covering the president s trip this weekend. Kevin joins us live from paradise. Kevin. Julian, youre gillian, youre right. For the president its an opportunity to see devastation of the wildfires that scorched a number of communities here and in Southern California as well and a chance for him to comfort not only those who lost loved ones, but in some cases lost everything they had in their possession. Also its a chance for the president to thank the firefighters and First Responders who have the heavy burden of assisting a hurting community. The president has been quite critical of the state management of the land which he says is a reason that california gets hammered by fires year after year after year. In fact, he addressed that controversy with our Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday. You got some blow back because of one of your tweets talked about for rest management. I tell when trees fall theyre very dry and theyre like ti
it s not as if he is i was just getting texts from some people who are in mccarthy s camp who still believe that even after what he just saw he will eventually become speaker. maybe matt gaetz just wants him to twist in the wind for two more days. but the fact this is they re making him walk over hot coals, swim with sharks, do everything he possibly can in the most painful, tortuous way to get to this point. i don t know if you guys can get this image on the camera here, but this is what i don t know if you can get the cameraman back at the this is an image put out by the mccarthy team. it says game time. this is put outright before
0 now they re going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let s listen in. gaetz. present. present. he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed present votes don t hurt. it s at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let s listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries. david scott, jeffries. kevin mccarthy walks off the he does not look happy. kevin mccarthy walks off the floor i m sorry, walks up the floor rather. matt gaetz, he needed him to vote yes not present. he s trying to convince him. he appears to be trying to convince matt gaetz to vote yes and not present. also, right, if he could get lauren boebert to change from present we haven t seen
doors and that all we re getting i asked him if you heard are you going to vote for kevin mccarthy here, he said, you know, not really a comment other than they re having private meetings behind closed doors and shows you how significant this moment is. the mccarthy team knows they have to get some support back from their side, go from the 20 opponents, maybe they can get down to 17, 18 or 19. some deal they can cut as they ve been trying over the last day intensely. but it s not clear if they are they there. they re not committing right now. manu, because your connection isn t great, who did you talk to? was that chip roy? that was chip roy. so chip roy and the reason we re watching chip roy thank you, manu. appreciate it. let s talk more with our panel here. the reason we re all watching chip roy is because he is one of the 20 rebels who seems to have an opposition to voting for mccarthy based in wanting to