in the faulkner focus. it is nasty. the battle for the gavel. the first time as i mentioned in a century the vote needed more than a single ballot. resistance to republican leader kevin mccarthy. it got hotter yesterday in the final rounds of votes. he started losing support. now 20 mccarthy defectors going into the second day. they are backing ohio representative-elect they re all elect because they can t be sworn in because they haven t chosen a speaker those 20 like jim jordan for the job. jordan supports mccarthy. how will that work out? he said he is not interested in being the speaker position. leading the charge for jim jordan and against kevin mccarthy florida congressman-elect matt gaetz. many of his colleagues not happy. south carolina republican nancy mace tweeted gaetz full ego was on display and he will screw around and get another pelosi elected to the spot, her words. former speaker newt gingrich said the hold juts are hurting themselves. i think a numb
to try to get to 218. it is hard to get a consensus and we re seeing that play out with the speaker s race unfortunately. harris: i love that optimism. we should be grown up enough in the country to have the debates. the fact that you would volunteer to work the days or hours you ve missed i think is bold. you aren t hearing a lot of people say that quick frankly, congressman elect comer. let s talk about the logistics of pulling across the line now 20 people hard nose. what do you call them, the never mccarthy republicans? certainly i think it s personal with many of those guys unfortunately. traditionally the republicans or democrats, whichever party is in the majority, they have their election. no one ever gets 100% of the vote especially if there are two people running. but then they agree to go out and vote as a party for this speaker. that s not happened in this case. i m hopeful that they can
agenda and try to get inflation under control by reducing wasteful spending happening in this town every day. harris: i know we didn t vote all that long ago as a nation and people are perched to see what you ll get done. first order of the day is to pick the speaker. before i let you go, you are talking with constituents from kentucky, no doubt. your home state. what is the feeling on the hill of what we ll see we re well into less than an hour from everybody reconvening. are they going to recess, will there be another vote? what s your take? i think there will be another vote and then maybe another recess. hopefully we ll get it done within the next 24 hours. i hope we get it done in the next 30 minutes. more likely the next 24 hours. harris: great to have you on the program. congressman-elect soon to be sworn in. we know it s coming. good to see you. thank you. thank you. harris: critics not letting up on president biden s border chaos. we were just talking about it
we elected a speaker. hopefully we can get to that today. that s a symbolic vote to show republicans are serious about reducing unnecessary spending. i think that s a perfect place to start and what we campaigned on and the first bill passed by a republican majority. harris: from that point you have the southern border, the chaos there, the deaths there of people drowning in the rio ground. i was down there covering it recently. our own peter doocy put it to the white house press secretary. let s watch. they claim to have evidence that joe biden lied to the american people about his involvement in his family s business schemes. did he? house republicans promised that fienth inflation during the mid-terms would be their number one priority. that s what they said was important to them. instead what they are doing is wanting to do an investigation on the president and his family. that s their focus. they don t want to focus on the american people and their families. they want to foc
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