speaker. so a lot of horse trading going on, the house is going to come in at noon tomorrow to try to take another round at this. if they don t have any progress to show, i would imagine they try to adjourn once again. i don t think mccarthy can afford, quite frankly, another 20-person dissent on the house floor. you re saying mccarthy because he has the votes he does have, not insignificant, 90% of the caucus doesn t feel like he needs to cave, but then what s he offering if there s horse trading going on? like what is his trade if he doesn t feel like he needs to cave? he s already given up so much and feels like he s in a position of semi strength so what s the conversation? there are some things he has not given up and very inside baseball things, basically the right wants more seats on the steering committee, the steering committee helps select members of standing committees so the committees that populate the
david frum. welcome to both of you. howard, what do you see here? i see a total collapse of the republican party, which was perfectly obvious when trump became president five years ago or six years ago. scalise might be a reasonable alternative i think he might be a compromise candidate because i don t think mccarthy can win at this point. second, what i really worry about is mccarthy wins or some other person who has no core as joe walsh put it last night wins and the debt ceiling collapses because none of these people can vote on the debt ceiling. the last three or five republicans want to do something for the country and that could
mrjordan himself made an impassioned speech in favour of mr mccarthy. backing kevin mccarthy himself yet, all of the dissidents, all of the people who are voting against mr mccarthy have put their ballots down forjordan instead and it seems like anyone but kevin mccarthy, so this will ramble on for a while, i think. this mccarthy, so this will ramble on for a while, i think. mccarthy, so this will ramble on for a while, ithink. a while, i think. this is someone who does a while, i think. this is someone who does not a while, i think. this is someone who does not seem a while, i think. this is someone who does not seem to a while, i think. this is someone who does not seem to want i a while, i think. this is someone who does not seem to want to l a while, i think. this is someone i who does not seem to want to give. give us more detail, are there coherent block with the leader with a list of demands? in coherent block with the leader with a list of demands? coherent block wit
traction and clicks. john: what a republican from new york said. the reality is kevin mccarthy worked hard, he delivered the majority. that was his promise and he did it so the nonsense has to stop, say enough is enough, the charade is over, he earned the speakership and he will have the gavel january 3rd. john: a new member of congress coming up, congressman elect, he said look, doesn t matter what your differences are, he earned it. i do think mccarthy has earned it to become speaker of the house. at the same time, i think the house freedom caucus and many conservative members are gonna put pressure on mccarthy to deliver. one thing republicans and democrats are slightly different is that pelosi was able to keep the coalition together, progressives and moderates. this is going to be a bigger challenge for republicans where they are more individualistic and like to make a point. but who does he have on his
making documents that we are working on. i don t think mccarthy is going to take them up on that offer. but that is the offer they are making in this letter. which is notably not a xiaojie letter. yeah, and that s the way reporters do it who don t have any means of legally compelling people to talk to them. but often will use precisely, that approach. well i ve already talked all year nominees. so if you want to tell your side of the story, i m all ears. we should talk. the other thing that strikes me here about the situation is, whatever happens, the embarrassment factor here is a key part of all of this. and you say with hannity and with ingram and with kevin mccarthy. one of the themes that is coming out, it seems to me in the committees investigation is that everyone during those three hours, everyone across the board had hair on fire about how horrible it was and how the president had to step in and stop it. and he didn t. and this is another example of