outfront next, breaking news. the house about to reconvene as mccarthy s bid for speaker looks shakier than ever. six humiliating rounds of votes and we could be looking at a seventh shortly. we have the very latest from capitol hill. plus, who are those 20 republicans waging this war against kevin mccarthy? we re going to give you a closer look. new details tonight on buffalo bills star damar hamlin s condition. for one former nfl player, hamlin s injury brought back members. he was hit in the chest with a puck, collapsed on the ice, carried out on a stretcher. and the former nhl star is it my guest tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight the breaking news. the house is about to gavel back in as open warfare breaks out in the gop. congressman matt gaetz tells cnn he s a, quote, desperate guys whose share is dropping with every subsequent vote. kevin mccarthy s allies are working furiously behind the scenes trying to search for any options as o
members are going to get somewhat wobbly. everybody acknowledges that the 20 are the problem and they re terrible. but you have to actually function. you have to get to a resolution. you saw some of that sort of weaken the knees of moderates when ken buck said he didn t know if he was going to be when ken buck is the moderate but, look, what s it going to take for republicans to wake up to realize that the problem is the far right, that they ve done what they did to boehner and paul ryan out of the gate. and who could actually corral that caucus? but nobody s at 30,000 feet looking at it like this. what people are looking at now is literally what s going to happen at 8:00 and how are you going to get to the next step. this is simply going to be a matter of how long kevin mccarthy is willing to continue fighting, and then what happens to his base of support. because at some point if the nos who blinks first? this is a game of chicken.
characters, for someone like kevin mccarthy. nor is it for at least stefanik, whom they all praised and padded on the back for the purposes of showing liz cheney the exit, right? but, again, this is all a very tenuous transactional relationship, very much in the trump molds. and to the extent it stops being a transaction that s favorable to your narrative, your messaging, and the money that you are gifting off of it, you know, you better believe. tucker carlson is gonna go on fox and start saying the crazy heard tonight. clare, would you think is happening within the republican party? because, for the most part, during the four years when trump was in office, despite what they may have said privately, they held their, nose and the stud behind them as their fearless leader. are you seeing things change publicly here? these aren t democrats leaking these tapes. listen, here s what kevin mccarthy had a front row seat for. he had a front row seat with the extreme element of their caucu
you had a front row seat when that same element in their caucus run paul ryan out of the speakership. he has watched what happens when you try to tangle with the most vicious and extreme elements of his party. and now, dr. collins taken up a weapon against them. no, watch sean hannity carefully, because that will tell you where trump is. and i, think if governments are the things cozy empathy with these guys is gonna help him, i fear he might be mistaken, and you might go the same road that boehner and paul ryan went. again, these warned bipartisan meetings. these are republicans taping one another. did you take your former democratic colleagues when you re a member of congress? no, i did not. no need. but, they were also staff on these committees calls. so that s why it s gonna be very hard for mccarthy to
nobody is getting it out there that actually we actually believe and then they can go on and say that actually we re just not compelling 24 million people to buy this insurance. the main reason going into the messaging over the weekend where you saw the secretary of health and human services, and paul ryan out. the republicans believe that what they are offering will make america s health care options better. that s what they believe, but they are not right now convincing people because of all the realities of they are also not telling the truth. that s part of why they are having a problem. i m sorry, i know, i know secretary price, i know paul ryan, i know all of these people. they are going on the air and saying things that are not true. objectively, verifybly, not true. i think i watched all four or five of those. i was on one of them, and the lies were just so blatant.