mccarthy is scrambling to gain the votes he needs to be speaker even after making major concessions this weekend, it still might not be enough. the suspect in the machete attack on three police officers in times square,vestigators dis handwritten diary. what it says. plus this. eight and a half years for the organizer to kidnap and kill me, that s a significant sense. we have gretchen whitmer s reaction to the sentences handed to the man who plotted to kidnap her. hear what she told our own kaitlan collins. let s begin in washington. house republican leader kevin mccarthy will be taking the race for speaker to the floor officially tomorrow in what could be the most dramatic house speaker election. he s made a number of concessions so try to get the number of votes to succeed nancy pelosi. will we see the first floor fight as it s called in 100 years. let s turn to harry inton. what do you think? let s talk math. right now the gop s 2023 majority is 222, seats majori
largely it s a death of local media story. what does kevin mccarthy do? what do the republicans do? mccarthy continues foe cushioning on kevin mccarthy and trying to become the speak er. whoever is speaker has to say something. they need one vote from george santos. and after that they re done? no committees, sit in the corner. that s right. and try to marginalize him and to your point in two years we ll do it again and i think the democrats will approach the race differently. it s hard to see george santos surviving a re-election, assuming he makes it that far but i think basically they try to leave this as a problem they don t have to deal with. dodge the reporters, two years of running away from reporter questions. they ve gotten good at it. i know. is it possible for him to hide from reporters? santos? he s talked to a lot of other people. when he s seated he s going to be walking in the halls. i think it s going to be different. when you get the cru
don t have mechanisms for catching or trapping something like that because it doesn t happen. at the same time usually there s one mechanism that will catch something. there s the media, the rival opponents, the national republicans and local republicans, i don t think that s getting talked enough about, and that s republicans who saw the guy run two years ago, what were they aware of, willing to tolerate in the hopes to see how far it would go in this climate, the other thing we ve never seen is silence like this from leadership. as you see kevin mccarthy in his battle to stay alive and become the next speaker he has been incredibly quiet in part because he needs every vote. no reason to believe that santos is not going to get seated, i believe he will get seated and the investigations continue. he has to. there s no mechanism in the house for getting rid of him. that s something people haven t understood. and there could be a law enforcement effort to get rid of
that actually north korea is close to putting together what it needs to send an intercontinental ballistic missile and it could technology, too, to put on that. secondly, trump is a man who is a deal maker. he is renowned for talking very tough and trying to cow his rival opponents and backtracking a bit. so it s very hard to tell whether he s actually just talking tough ahead of the crucial summit on thursday to hoping the chinese relent or he does mean he ll go to learn. well, when i interviewed him about a year ago when he talked about keeping nuclear weapons on the table, a phrase was very comfortable people have been using it on the table, as it was one of our reasonable weapons. even in the case of europe, he talked about it being on the table. so the question you have to ask is, does trump know that weapons are there as deter rent. they re not there to be used.