get the bill. bill: some of the g.o.p. colleagues have been speaking out on this some support and some strongly against it. some montage of what some of them have had to say. the question is it is not a step forward but a conservative step forward, a step forward for republicans. my concerns are national security. i think the number one chop of the federal government is to keep us safe. a lot of us wanted far more spending cuts then we have peered for him to claim victory and got this bill that we had 218 votes is unacceptable. look, you made a good point the democrats have the white house, they have the senate and the republicans have a slim majority in the house of representatives. so realistically, the freedom caucus wanted this to go a lot more the conservative direction but realistically this is as good of a deal that the republicans could have got with
the mouse lands here it is a horrible decision in large part because of the criticism coming fro republicans. just your mainstream republicans, christina kne chris christie the freedom caucus of whic rhonda scientist is a member justin amash you criticize i and said this is not how you use the power of government. rhonda sanchez is showing both his vanity and his vengeance i this war on disney and giving a lot of donors and voters reasons to hit pause. i take it in the poll richar about how unhappy everybody is the democratic party, th republican party intro biden and donald trump and everybody is underwater. however, none of that matter on election day because it is contrast we ll continue to see is tha the contrast of president jo biden former president donal trump, the country still wants a stop the trumpism. and they want to reelect joe biden. those are very good numbers fo joe biden in a head-to-hea match. very good as what you are saying don, going back to the poll it says th
be negotiating with the white house. they re trying to show, hey, we have a plan. we can come to agreement and do this. the second part of the strategy for kevin mccarthy is he wants to have an inclusive process with these so-called five families, godfather reference there, that i will say not all republicans love that reference. but mccarthy wants to show it s not just going to be leadership driven. that s because he knows this is going to be a make or break moment for his speakership. there s the power to oust him at any moment. he s trying to sort of thread the needle among the various wings of his party. if and when they come to that agreement, they still have to negotiate with the democrats. let s just you see them on the screen there. garrett grace is a top mccarthy ally. he s representing the leadership. dusty johnson is the chairman of what they call the main street caucus. patrick mchenry, the financial services committee, david joyce, scott perry, the freedom caucus. they
10% are not. reporter: the freedom caucus was involved in former speaker john boehner s ouster in 2019. in my case there were two or three dozen what i call knuckleheads, they wanted chaos. they wanted it all their way or no way. reporter: and stepped down amid difficulty managing the faction. the people on the fringes have a bigger platform to make their point, and, frankly, create chaos. reporter: later that year they blocked kevin mccarthy s first bid for speaker. looking for a speaker who works with conservatives, rather than against us. reporter: having a hand in his withdrawal then from the race. i think i shocked some of you, huh? reporter: the caucus was first founded in 2015. borne out of the tea party movement. do what we told the voters we were going to do. reporter: with founding members like congressman jim jordan. we all swore an oath of office. reporter: ron desantis and mark meadows among others under the original founding principles of open, a
anyway. reporter: the group had been at the center of some of the biggest fights on capitol hill. at this point, it looks like we could be in for a very long-term shutdown. reporter: consistently making the task of governing more challenging. i don t want us to become a faction nalized majority. i want us to become a unified majority. reporter: to the frustration of past house republican speakers. i share frustration. about 90% of our conference is for this bill to repeal and replace obamacare, and about 10% are not. reporter: the freedom caucus was involved in former house speaker john boehner s oust during 2015. in my case, on any given day, there were two or three dozen what i call knuckleheads who just wanted they wanted chaos. they wanted it all their way or no way. reporter: he stepped down amid difficulty managing the faction. the people on the fringes have a bigger platform to make their points, and frankly create chaos. reporter: later that year,