which is not to make this political- which is not to make this olitical. , ., political. in the interest of makin: political. in the interest of making sure political. in the interest of making sure that - political. in the interest of making sure that this - political. in the interest of making sure that this deal political. in the interest of- making sure that this deal gets passed. we ve also been talking about the house speaker kevin mccarthy. he was also speaking a little bit earlier today on the house floor. let s listen to what he said. the house floor. let s listen to what he said. tonight, we are going to what he said. tonight, we are going to to what he said. tonight, we are going to do to what he said. tonight, we are going to do something . to what he said. tonight, we l are going to do something we haven t are going to do something we haven t done before. tonight, we are haven t done before. tonight, we are going to give america hope we are going to give ame
the republicans in the senate and we want to work with him a and his team to advance a positive agenda that will make americ thaa better foc working class americans. now, thahat t is goingis to be g the populist conservative agenda it always has been. watcn and we re going to be watching h very closely to see whatenate the senate republicans do next . and that s the angle. joining mee now is indiananks. congressman jim banks, chair ofe the republican study committee, and ned ryun, ceo of american american majority. congressman, there are a lot of challenges we re facing. i just laid oud out four of the major ones. do you expect gop leadership in the senate to putbipartis and prioritize bipartisan deals with schumer? dealsahead of conservative priorities? well, we re going to find outfe over the next few weeks,l of laura , because all of a a suddn the house floor is busier over the next month and has been over the last two years as the
protesters began to work their way up the capitol steps. and by the time i got back to my office, which was all but 90 seconds later, the first videos became apparent that protesters were in the capitol, in the rotunda, began barricading the house floor and then working their way up to the senate floor. so obviously a very scary experience. i m sure it was. and the picture is still horrifying to look at now. 365 days later, evan. what did this do to you? yeah, it is interesting. in the days afterwards, i was reflecting, i think it is easy to doubt that, you know, you kind of think, well, in hindsight, maybe i wasn t in any danger, i have no reason to be scared, there is no reason to react the way i did, and the house actually held a series of trauma and resilience workshops in the days afterwards, and one
with where contempt. it will go through the committee, the house floor, and then the d.o.j. will have to make a decision whether or not to criminally charge mark meadows. i m not a lawyer and i will not play one on tv, but many people wiser than me think that meadows has a stronger case on the privilege claims than he made than has steve bannon in the white house. the current white house says that meadows has no such real claim because the biden administration would like to see his full testimony. even with meadows stonewalling and fighting this in court, the work goes on. today they re organizing a stop the steal salesperson testifying saying he turned in a
arguments. i don t know why they ve focused completely on impeachment. i think there s so much that could be done if they focus on hearings with respect to volume one of the mueller report all having to do with russia that there s a lot there that they could focus on something other than impeachment, but have a clear mandate legislatively from trying to draft new laws about what rules there should be when people are contacted by foreign governments in the course of a political campaign, for example, they should figure out whether we should have different laws there. you could tell the story. impeachment at the end of the day is a political thing and they need to get the american people behind them if they re going to pursue that route and they need to get facts in front of the american people. and i m not sure what their strategy is to do that at this point in time. let s follow up on this. house democrats voted to authorize committees to by pass the house floor. what does that mean