the speakers speaker of the house. what is going on in terms of leadership? will mccarthy get the gavel? members have a lot of questions. number one, obviously, the expectations were not delivered. number two, how are we actually going to govern what s appearing to be a small majority? i was listening to your previous segment with stephen muller. we have to miller. we have to lay out a demonstrated plan, serious policies that voters actually believe in, and we can t equivocate from that even in what s looking to be continued divided government, gridlocked government. republican members want to get answers to that, and i think that s critical towards kevin s ability to becoming the leader and eventually the speaker. maria: who will challenge him? that is not clear at at this time. nobody knows that. maria: we know that the freedom caucus has been talking a bit, and we want to understand more where the strength and weakness is within the gop. why wasn t there more efforts around
fox news, she says she has two sources that you are telling members that you would support ron desantis over donald trump in 2024 as part of your pitch to be house gop conference chair. do you support desantis over trump? oh, first thing i m going to tell you is that the reporting is false. i don t know who these sources are, but i can tell you firsthand i ve never had conversations hike that with any members like that. it s unfortunate one of my colleagues would put out rumors like this, i find it to be a kiss traction. number three, nobody s actually running for president right now. donald trump s the leader in the clubhouse. everybody needs to understand that for the republican nomination, but am i supporting one over the other right now? no, that is not true. maria: all right. let me get your take on leadership today because, congressman, you know the knives are out for the leadership. we ve been talking about mitch mcconnell, there s also whispers around ken mccarthy and what
dud you all blow it by caving in and going with democrats? is that why you re now gonna if be in the minority? maria, why so think about it, you re a candidate like marco rubio running, all right? and then his colleagues go and vote for things that he s campaigning against? how does that make his race easier or any of our challengers ? maria: yeah. we ve got to come together as a caucus and vote as a caucus, and that s not what s happening. maria: all right. you have these people voting with chuck schumer. maria: yeah. when will we know if you delay the elections next week? because you re not going to be able to challenge mitch mcconnell if unfortunately elections next week, right in. the democrats delayed their reaction, i don t know why we wouldn t, but we won t know until tuesday or wednesday maria: that s a good point. the democrats are not doing their elections until december, so why are you doing it next week? senator, we re going to keep a spotlight on it. florida se
democratses are and then, actually, they cave in to the democrats. and now they want to rush through an election, we haven t even finished what s happening in georgia. my focus is to make sure herr hell wins, and i hope herschel wins. team herschel.com to help. they want to rush through an election because they don t want to do any assessment of what we ve done wrong. insanity is doing the exact same thing and thinking you re going to get a different result. we won t. maria: well, we have tweets here that i want to show from marco rubio, from ted cruz saying we should postpone the senate leadership elections next week. a lot of people are wondering if mitch mcconnell is the guy to continue running it. will you take the job if your colleagues push you to want to become minoritied leader? do you want the job? minority leader? well, a lot of people is have, you know, called me to see if i ll run. here s my focus, we ve still got to win georgia. i m not going to take anything off the
now is to do everything i can to help herschel with. i m going to be there today helping herschel. so that s what my focus is. we shouldn t be having these elections, but we ve got to go back and say to ourselves when republicans do what leadership has done this last year and our candidates have to be frustrated with, you know, the republican leadership caving in on the debt ceiling, caved in on the gun bill, on a fake infrastructure bill and then we make it difficult for our candidates. we can t do that. we ve got to do exactly what stephen miller said, give people something we re hell bent on getting e done and then fight for it. that s what we do in florida, by the way. that s why we had big wins in florida, because we stand for something. maria: well, look, you did stand for something. you had an 11-point agenda that you released earlier this year, but what did some of your colleagues do? they turned that agenda against you and started sending out this news that you wanted to elimi