continuing coverage of the speaker of. kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in as speaker after winning on a historic 15th ballot. it is now my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel to a son of bakersfield, a former of a firefighter s household. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy. i never thought we would get up. here you know my father was told me, it is not how you start, it is how you finish. and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leaders jeffries, there will be times we agree and many times we will defer. i promise our debate will be passionate, but they will never be personal. that is my commitment to you. so after taking his own oath of office, the speaker then foreign members of the 118 congress, and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes, too short of a majority of the h
prosecutors, 94% of the prosecutors in america are elected. but then when they behave in a manner in line with the voter that put them there, they get introuble. you see it here with andrew and the governor and prosecutors across the country. it s an odd scenario where we ask these folks to run for office and then either ask them to behave in an apolitical way. it doesn t make sense. it doesn t. i mean, the idea even with culture wars, more broadly, much of culture wars are based little in fact, it s more on the hyperbole, and the peak, or push salt into wound which may be a hy hypothetical. i see, although this does impact a prosecutor and the administration of justice, but,
prosecutors. i think 94% of the prosecutors in america are elected. but when they sort of behave in a manner in line with the voters that put them there, they sort of run into trouble. now, you see it here with andrew and the governor. you see it with, you know, prosecutors all over the country. and it s just that odd scenario where we ask these folks to run for office, but then ask them to sort of either behave in an apolitical way or just behave in a manner that the opposing party would sort of want to work with. it just didn t really make sense. it doesn t. i mean the idea of, you know, even with culture wars more broadly, much of culture wars are based little in fact. it s much more on the hyperbole, trying to push and pour salt into wounds that maybe are, you know, hypothetical. well, who decides what history is? . the victors decide what history is or the popular will. i see although this does impact a prosecutor in the administration of justice, from
will be in this odd scenario where he use the rules package to get the votes for speaker, but he can t implement what he promised. so that will be a stress test into next week. but they will survive it. the real test will be around keeping the government open through the annual budget process will be at the end of this year. and then accommodating the debt ceiling. which will absolutely require working with democrats. eric kanter tried to work with obama as the ambassador of the republican house at the time. in these issues. realize how quickly his stop was going to fall. and retreat. it left the white house. and went back to the house. and never move to the white house again. they want to go with obama because it was too dangerous. and that s when i think, how does mccarthy push through that type of trouble? is to actually double down on the hard impeachments, the investigations, and perhaps going after joe biden himself. it was really his only pathway to keep proving himself to the p
you ll spend less time getting there and more time being there. viking. exploring the world in comfort. the final question for our well, the stock is bubbling in the pot just till they taste what we ve got [ tires squeal, crash ] when owning a small business gets real, progressive gets you right back to living the dream. now, where were we? [ cheering ] panel, david jolly, i will start with the. wind as the mccarthy speaker honeymoon and? it is going to be tested very soon over this rules package. half of what mccarthy has promised is actually in the rules package. if he can t pass it, it would be in this odd scenario where he uses the rules package to get the votes for speaker but they can t actually implement