week; i never if give up. [cheers and applause] maria: now republicans are preparing to get to work with plans to adopt a new rules package tomorrow morning, and speaker mccarthy finalizing committee heads this week. coming up, florida congressman byron donalds who emerged as a potential alternative before helping to empower the former minority leader to take the gavel. plus, former green beret and florida congressman michael waltz on the promise of a vote on term limits and a balanced budget within 10 years. plus, joe biden finally discovers fentanyl after two years of silence and 100,000 americans fatally poisoned. for example, since august of last year, custom and border patrol has seized more than 20,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl. that s enough to kill, kill as many as a thousand people in this country. 20,000 pounds of fentanyl. it s a killer. it s a flat killer. maria: coming up, live from the front lewins. texas twof greg governor greg abbott is here as the preside
the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. i suspect that when they come back after dinner that mccarthy is going to end up withdrawing. oh, i think his goose is very much cooked. i don t think we re going to see a speaker kevin mccarthy. howard: only in the final late night drama did journalists say, hey, shocker, mccarthy, who we all branded the biggest loser, might actually win this thing. of i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my exclusive int
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