i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: it s over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasn t a national nightmare, i mean, it wasn t that long in the scheme of things, a few days, it just seemed like a few centuries, but it is over. kevin mccarthy at 1:39 a.m. formally getting the gavel to become speaker of the house, but it s what s left after all of that that has a lot of people wondering. alexandria hoff followed this from the beginning with how it ended. what a great compilation it was. it showed how much back and forth has happened in four days. there were moments last night where i felt like i was watching the u.k. house of commons rather
that s responsible for what is going for kevin mccarthy from not going. among the things they got cap spending for the next fiscal year at last year s levels. now, some have said that would be akin to cutting the budget and that some of your moderate members aren t keen on that and they think it would be dead on arrival with democrats, certainly. so they re set up or afraid that this agreement has set up a real disaster. what do you say? i wouldn t call it a disaster, again, i m a bit more of a budget hawk on that. neil: right. so this does not give me heartburn. neil: so you re okay at freezing levels at this year s levels for next year. yeah, yeah, let me tell you what some people have concerns about. a lot of people want to cut broad spending and we ve seen under joe biden how much drastic increases there s been in all levels of government, whether it s the epa really
don t think that that s the case that these concessions are okay? i think that the agreement that we have now on the motion to vacate, specifically is what you re talking about. neil: right, right. this idea that one person can call a motion to vacate and we all have to vote again on who the speaker is. okay, as scott said, that s actually been the rule for a very long time. pelosi changed it. she changed it to a threshold of 100. a week ago mccarthy agreed to five and then got down to one. i don t see much difference between five and one to be perfectly honest with you. no, this does not give me heartburn. just doesn t we re good with you. neil: and seems to me, congressman i m jumping on you again. and the concessions we spoke about when last we spoke, you re okay with, and didn t go too far. you d have to be specific about what i was very concerned about. last time we spoke, i was angry about how this was unfolding because i would go up to a lot
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under oath to my knowledge untruthfully. he answered the interrogatories that mueller sent. as far as i m concerned, they ve got nothing. what michael cohen said versus the president says, the tie goes to the president. harris: as we look at this, it s interesting that there really is a no-win situation with the democrats and this president. had he come back with a deal we could with, he has proven he gets out of deals it is like. like the one with iran. kristen: the present understands they are willing to give him more latitude on this issue because no past president with traditional approaches to the north korea problem have succeeded. this goes back decades. being unconventional, i think he gets much more latitude from the american public to try something different. at times, diplomacy via tweet. remember, he was rocket man for a while before. it s a sort of thing where the president s tweets sometimes give me heartburn, but when it comes to north korea, the unconventional appro