constructive way to campaign back home. i m going to help anyway i can. donalds was spelling one a concession that he wants to see from mccarthy and that s lowering the threshold of a number of members it takes to call the vote for speaker from five oh just one. that is a key ask. we will see if it makes a difference and delivers mccarthy the vote even if he did agree to it. appreciate it. back with the team in new york. the idea of lowering the number to just one? insane. what with would that mean? it s one vote on the floor, go to the floor, to move, to vacate the chair, in other words to fire the speaker. under these circumstances, by the way, kevin mccarthy handed the rope to his opponents to wrap the noose around his neck. right now there are people who would use that. even five is bad and one is
are. and i suspect right now, this merry little band of destroyers, they may win out on this in the short-term on mccarthy. how does it actually work? does somebody then go to steve scalise? well, what will happen is that, test incumbent upon kevin mccarthy to make the decision to withdraw. obviously he hasn t done that yet. it has to be his step? he would have to take his name out of consideration. now, how that happens, i suspect his key alleys will talk to him and say he needs do it for the good of the country and the institution. and if he were to step back, you may see more people jumping in who wants to be speaker other than scalise. it seems highly unlikely. i mean, mccarthy has been wanting this for years and has debased himself continually to get this. i think that the more likely scenario is that someone else
mccarthy votes. he was originally on a lot of our charts were down as a mccarthy skeptic. he was one of two that we might thought voted against mccarthy. how much do you think he represents the consensus view, even though as you point out, he is, um, essentially, in his heart, um, a freedom caucus tea party type of candidate. ken was on my card, too. i mean, i wrote down some names and talked to you earlier yesterday, watching the front of the alphabet, i had him on a flip of that vote. he s given the ultimatum right now that he s sticking with kevin for one vote. that s a big deal. i don t think ken would do it alone. ken is a friend of mine, he and i have history together, we were in the same car together