correspondent chat pergram followed this all day and came to a head moments ago. good evening, chad. good evening bret. the house passed 217 to 215 and four gop defection and the bill wasn t ready to pass last night and nancy mace called the bill weak and she s a yes today. that s a pretty dramatic change and position. we had a very productive meeting because until then, a lot of us have not been included in the conversation so to get that commitment from him and working with us on balancing the budget and members force mccarthy to alter the bill in order to win their votes and one change moving up the date for healthy people to find work if they want to qualify for food aid. in the midnight seance that republicans conducted, mccarthy preserved tax breaks for ethanol, corn state members ballinged. we ll not allow balked. we ll not allow them to budget it on the back of american farmers. but tim burchette. we re increasing the debt $1.5 trillion over ten year
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brokered come up with the freedom caucus, that if he doesn t get at least half the republican conference to vote for any bill, they could go after hisjob. so for any bill, they could go after his job. so that is a lot of what we will be looking for. we already know that several dozen republicans have said they will not vote for it more than a0. we know that around a dozen democrats have said they will not vote for it. and these are people who are on the more extreme and means of the political structure, so the more conservative republicans, the very liberal democrats. none of that threatens to derail this vote passing? it doesn t look like it. derailthis vote passing? it doesn t look like it. the i derailthis vote passing? it| doesn t look like it. the big south from doesn t look like it. the big south from the doesn t look like it. the big south from the white - doesn t look like it. the big| south from the white house doesn t look like it. the big - south from the white house and
the problem. more than 80 dais, he s ignored the american public. he has to negotiate now or we raise the debt limit and take our bill. curious for this and have to continuously raise the debt ceiling. speaker kevin mccarthy with a big win and chad pergram joining us from capitol hill and this vote passing and a lot of people, especially democrats on the senate side that didn t think the numbers were there, wasn t going toed a and you happen it is all like you say about the math, the numbers and he had them, had to negotiate a bit but this is a big moment for the speaker. you don t get style points here on capitol hill. the calling card of former house speaker nancy pelosi was always passing big bills with a narrow margin. this is the first really big bill, something of substance that kevin mccarthy dealt with
we really can t look at the vote passing. we have to focus on the vote counting and how corruptible it will be with the passage of these bills. how partisan and potentially rigged it will be. the problem is, that they have allowed this process to be completely partisan and corruptible. we might have looked at our last free and fair election as a result. that was the quote of our broadcast last night, put a lump in a lot of throats, from a woman not given normally to hyperbole. our guests jason johnson and matthew dowd remain with us. matthew, truth be told, my question to a.b. stoddard last night was motivated by the conversation you had with nicole wallace on the air yesterday afternoon. you told the folks watching that we d left suppression weeks ago. that now this is about vote