the contentious weeklong battle for speaker. kevin mccarthy s rocky road to the gavel including sessions made to the far-right s holdouts is raising fresh questions about how a republican-led house will govern. earlier today, house republicans getting their take. sometimes democracy is messy, but i would argue that s exactly how the founders intended it. they wanted real debate, real input from all people, and then you get a decision. it is positive, not negative. it is not weakening kevin mccarthy it is providing the speaker with the tools he needs for republicans to go to the map of the american people. 218-plus republicans realized that kevin mccarthy needs a chance to govern, and we are going to give him a chance. well, democrats giving a different view earlier today. the leader hakeem jeffries expressing concerns with the prolonged speaker fight means for the house moving forward. this function was historic that we saw this week is not at an end, it is just the
rules package, if it passes, and it doesn t contain all of kevin s promises, some of them are just in his words to somebody else. what s the promise matt gates? that is not in the rules package. but the rules package promises that it was a vote on about a different pieces of for conservative legislation, it empowers every member to have, as we now know the ability to vacate the chair, to offer, amendments it does that we are going to trend down spending, and that is odd that is when we are gonna see a result from the traditional appropriators in defense talks are going to say to kevin, wait, what did you just give away in that space? here is the most dangerous thing, alex, and i think we really have to watch this closely. it is the committee on the establishment of the federation this is what i m calling the insurrection committee, their inspection platform. i think they are going to spend two years telling the american people that the fbi, the cia, the department of justice, and our
regardless of who won, donald trump s hand would be on the speakers gavel. so yes, while doing the machinations even some of his own mock of people resisted him, make no mistake. who to kevin mccarthy think after he won the speakers gavel? he spanked donald trump for it. so it is not a stretch to say that donald trump is the speaker of the house of representatives. i really think that is the case, and it will remain the case, because this maga movement has been dominant. and alex, you and i have heard for years about republicans in my forte of party say, no, no we are the ones in charge. that is not what america saw the last few days. they saw the most extreme members of the party completely in charge, and kevin mccarthy had to bow to them. you sound kind of nostradamus like to me, you make those three points and they all came true. that said, it was kind of weird twist where it seemed like trump s endorsement didn t mean anything at all early in the voting for speaker. his heart did